Readers discuss the NDP's support of the Trudeau government; the cap on foreign students; electoral reform and more in letters to the editor
Re: Jagmeet Singh kicks off caucus retreat pitching NDP as ‘an alternative’ in next election — Mickey Djuric, Jan. 23
The federal NDP propping up the Trudeau government while the Liberals’ wasteful spending causes our national debt to balloon is like NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh holding the door open for a bank robber.
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The NDP has enabled Justin Trudeau’s bad fiscal management rather than putting a stop to the Liberals’ raid of the taxpayers’ purse. Future generations will be paying off the Trudeau-Singh debt well beyond our lifetimes.
If the NDP had wanted to do something positive during their current Edmonton retreat, they should have made the trip to the local Staples store and bought every NDP member of Parliament a calculator.
Chris Robertson, Stony Plain, Alta.
Re: If climate blowhards could power windmills, we’d all be OK — Joe Oliver, Jan. 23
While reading Joe Oliver’s excellent article on our Liberal government’s obsession with climate change and their continuing efforts to shut down Alberta’s oil and gas industry, I couldn’t help but think of the fact that the Trudeau family’s wealth stems from our current prime minister’s grandfather’s investments in the oil sector.
Charles-Émile Trudeau was a very successful entrepreneur. How ironic that his grandson should try to demolish this sector of Canada’s vast economic engine and its potential to enrich Canadians from coast to coast. The oil and gas that Canada does not supply will be provided by other, less favourable, regimes.
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H.K. Hocquard, King, Ont.
Re: Pro-terror college instructor who claimed victory at not being fired … is fired — Tristin Hopper, Jan. 26
Supporting Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel as “an amazing, brilliant offensive” should have been grounds for a charge of hate speech, not reinstatement (later withdrawn) at Langara College.
The left has exceptional tolerance for intolerance in support of its causes and exceptional intolerance for any petty deviation from what it deems correct. Pronouns can be grounds for dismissal but supporting terrorism, rape and murder? Well it depends on the “context.”
John Harris, Toronto
Re: International student cap will hit university and college finances, especially in Ontario — Ryan Tumilty, Jan. 24
The federal Immigration minister plans to cut back visas for foreign students by 35 per cent, thereby cutting back the incomes of struggling universities.
He will not cut the number of immigrants, however, so Justin Trudeau’s loyal voter numbers will continue to increase, along with the shortage of houses, hospitals, doctors, nurses, schools, welfare shelters and police — all of which are provincial and municipal problems to solve.
It’s all politics. Common sense doesn’t enter into it.
Charles Hooker East Garafraxa, Ont.
Re: Liberals may wish they’d stuck with electoral reform — Kelly McParland, Jan. 19
First-past-the-post (FPTP) elections distort Canadian democracy. In Prince Edward Island in 1935 and in New Brunswick in 1987, FPTP elections resulted in legislatures with no opposition and all seats held by one party. In 2021 for the second election in a row the Conservatives won the popular vote yet the Liberals formed the government. We regularly get a false majority government voted in by a minority of voters.
Canada needs electoral reform. With proportional-representation type elections seats in Parliament reflect accurately how voters actually voted. Governments would then be coalitions that require co-operation and agreement by the coalition parties. That can be a challenge. To prevent small marginal parties from holding Parliament to ransom, electoral reform should include a minimum threshold percentage of popular vote required before a small party can be in Parliament.
New Zealand and Australia (federal and all states) ended FPTP voting, and so should Canada.
Reiner Jaakson, Oakville, Ont.
Re: Liberals put all their bets on campaigning against … Donald Trump — Tasha Kheiriddin, Jan. 23
The Liberal party has done more damage to Canada than a Donald Trump presidency could possibly do. The focus on a possible Trump victory is a tactic to take our minds off Liberal failures.
Our relationship with the U.S.A. has not improved under Joe Biden. He cancelled the Keystone XL pipeline. He is playing hardball on softwood lumber. His anti-inflation measures have had our government scrambling to get investment into Canada.
Rather than correct its mistakes, the federal government will try to compare Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre to Trump. No doubt many Canadians will buy into that. But Canada’s economy and the lives of Canadians will not improve until Justin Trudeau is out of office. That has nothing to do with Trump.
Rick Hird, Whitby, Ont.
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