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As a child growing up, I still remember my parents telling me and my brother how disrespectful it is to call a police officer a ‘cop.’ Well, at 75 years old now, I am finding it very hard not to call them Liberal COPS. Why, you ask? Across Canada, and particularly in cities like Toronto and Montreal, the pro-Palestinian thugs are allowed to spew their anti-Semitism hate and all the cops do is nothing. Their statements are “we are looking at or we are reviewing videos.” This is Canada, the Jewish communities, businesses, museums and synagogues have a right to be protected. Get off your lazy butts and act. Do the job you’re paid for — to protect — and if you can’t, then send in SWAT.
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GORD PETERS
(It’s a tough job, to be sure, but things are getting out of hand.)
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Outrageous demands
Don’t get me wrong, I really like nurses. They have helped me a couple times in my 70 years. Heck, I even have had four of them in my family, but, according to the Sun, they are asking for a 25% pay increase the first year and 10% the next year! If they get 25%, that would be a tidy pay raise of around $25,000 for a lot of RNs. Of course Alberta cannot afford anything close to that. Perhaps the nurses union executives should stop self-medicating and come to the table with a realistic demand.
DON HONEYCHURCH
(Let us hope it was simply an opening salvo.)
Debt disqualification
Re “Feds eye swelling deficit as inflation hits 2% target” (The Canadian Press, March 6): The parliamentary budget officer anticipates the federal deficit to grow to $46.8 billion for this fiscal year.
To paraphrase Warren Buffett, I could end the deficit in five minutes. You just pass a law that says anytime there is a deficit of more than 3% of GDP, all members of the ruling federal government are ineligible for re-election.
GARY WOODWARD
(Not a bad idea)
Carbon tax woes
Regarding the carbon tax. My wife and I are seniors living in a modest 900 sq.-ft. bungalow. We have a high-efficiency furnace and keep our thermostat at 68F. Yet this month we had to pay $47.57 carbon tax on a bill of $203.86, although the natural gas energy charge was only $58.48. Staying warm has become unaffordable. What more can we do? Freeze to death.
BRENT KOSTYNIUK
(Many are feeling the pinch.)
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