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IDLE NO MORE

Does Ottawa’s city council really have nothing better to do? Despite issuing no more than a couple of dozen tickets over the last five years for vehicles idling longer than three minutes (per hour) when temperatures are between 5 and 27 C, they are now considering reducing the legal idling time to one minute.

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Chances are bylaw enforcement officers will emit far more CO2 racing over to ticket these potential offenders than will be saved from such a vacuous, virtue-signalling bylaw.

Seriously … aren’t there far more important issues for your city to deal with?

AL WILLEY
EDMONTON

LTC CAMERA BLIND SPOT

Re: Put cameras in homes, letter, Jan. 23

I have been involved with long-term care for a very long time. Cameras are allowed in rooms, but not faced towards the toilet or bed areas. This is where the abuse usually happens! What good are the cameras now?

BEVERLY ELLIOTT
OTTAWA

TAX OVERLOAD

Looking at the annual budget being put forth by Chow in Toronto, one has to wonder when a massive pushback by the electorate will take place.

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It is easy to say Toronto knowingly elected a socialist NDP mayor who does not see the value in reducing spending through efficiencies, as opposed to raising taxes, but I don’t believe anyone saw a 10 to 16 per cent property tax increase in the cards.

Our federal government is being operated the same way as Toronto, and I am just waiting to see when that final straw falls on the camel’s back.

Two more years of the New Liberals are going to push people’s tolerance to the absolute limit.

WAYNE BOYCE
CARLETON PLACE

PM ON LIFE SUPPORT

Re: ‘Idiots’; Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary blasts Trudeau over Trump jab, Jan. 24

Our “esteemed” PM really is on life support. NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh should do something for Canada by withdrawing his support and putting him out of his misery by forcing an election. Otherwise, I suspect Singh will sink with the Liberals, if he hasn’t already.

MIKE SHURTLIFF
KANATA

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