Letters to the Editor, Aug. 2, 2025
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CANADIAN STEEL
Prime Minister Mark Carney announced stiff tariffs on foreign steel coming to Canada. This is to bolster the use of Canadian-made steel for manufacturing and infrastructure projects. He didn’t mention anything about cancelling the ferry boat contracts to China and having them built here with Canadian steel and Canadian steel workers and other skilled trades.
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Lorne Strachan
Concord
(There are many things Carney is failing to do)
LIGHTS OUT
It is time to remind out fearless leaders that “elbows up” does not mean skating around centre ice with your elbows up pretending to be tough. It does mean going after the puck in the corner with your opponent, smacking him in the chops with your elbow, and leaving with the puck and him dazed and confused. Turn off the electricity for one weekend and show the world how Canadians deal with a bully.
Robin Vinden
Etobicoke
(Truly that will accomplish little)
REMOVE OUR OWN BARRIERS
(Canada needs to put on their big boy pants and remove provincial tariffs and trade barriers immediately before complaining about foreign tariffs. We need to fast track all necessary permits and regulations to get our natural resources out of the ground and on their way to new buyers as fast as we can or we are coming in last in this race. Common sense not politics will save us, speed not dragging everything out with endless studies and talk will save us, responsible spending not shovelling hard-earned taxpayers’ money out the back door will save us. (We haven’t even got a budget yet.) If we want to keep this country together, prosperous and free, we can’t throw around patriotic hockey quips like “elbows up” to get votes. We need to do what needs to be done with the least amount of politics involved as possible and that means now.
Wayne Martin
Kitchener
(There are so many barriers we put up as a country between provinces it’s little wonder we cannot make a deal nationally)
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