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Re: There are no more safe spaces for Trudeau’s Liberals — Montreal byelection loss proves it — Terry Newman, Sept. 17; and Bloc Quebecois ready to extract gains for Quebec in exchange for supporting Liberals — Michel Saba Sept. 8

As enjoyable as it may be that the Liberals are witnessing the erosion of their role as the “national governing party,” I humbly suggest the headline for Terry Newman’s column be changed to “no more safe spaces for Canadians.“

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With the ripping up of the NDP agreement with the Liberals, we now have the prospect of the Liberals shifting toward the Bloc to retain their control over Parliament. So we move from an NDP/Liberal agreement with no tangible relationship to modern economic theory, toward the unique regional separatist bias of the Bloc to keep the Liberals in power.

Couple this shift with the ongoing pugilistic relationship with Saskatchewan over carbon tax remittances to the federal government, plus the cold war with Alberta over the green agenda. Not to mention the ongoing immigration train wreck that continues to generate misery for every hopeful future homeowner and for all taxpayers who must pay for increased social services.

While all this is happening, Canada’s economic performance is entrenched at the bottom of the OECD range projected well into the next century.

As for the military, who cares? Certainly not the Liberals, who seem content to ride on the coattails of the Americans.

So the question remains: where is there a safe space left for Canadians?

Raymond Foote, Ottawa

No sooner than Justin Trudeau and Jagmeet Singh go through a nasty breakup than the Bloc comes a courting, with a list of demands. Apparently, Canada is for sale by the Trudeau Liberals, and the price to Canadians is that Trudeau remains in power. That is something we cannot afford.

What happened to service to country, duty and altruism as motivators to high office? Clearly the Liberals would prefer to preside over the ashes of what once was Canada, just as long as they get to call the shots.

Trudeau’s brand of politics may not be the oldest profession, but it appears to be the most distasteful. Canada needs an election now.

Robert S. Sciuk, Wellesley, Ont.

I’ll never understand why my taxes pay the salaries of Bloc MPs and their constituency office expenses in Quebec. How on Earth can a political party be a contender in a federal election when it runs candidates in only one province? In order to qualify as a national political party in a federal election, that party should have to run candidates in every province across the country. It’s nuts that the rest of Canada is paying for a Quebec separatist party.

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