Letters to the Editor, Aug. 28, 2024

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WHAT WILL IT TAKE?

Given the relentless onslaught of stories of late involving crimes committed by young offenders, what more will it take for the government to acknowledge that the Youth Criminal Justice Act is a dismal failure and must be rewritten or scrapped entirely? It’s time to start charging youths as adults, regardless of age, if they are involved in abhorrent crimes such as kidnapping, assault or murder. Enough is enough. Again, what will it take?

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J. Williams

Ajax

(It will take elected officials who want to take criminal justice reform seriously. We currently do not have a government that wants to do that.)

LIBS’ RETREAT

Liberal party members are going to be very disappointed after their party retreat in Halifax. While many hope to hear some contrition and mea culpa from a humbled prime minister, what they will get instead is a defiant PM that attributes all the party problems to an uninformed, ungrateful electorate. How is it possible that Canadians can’t appreciate and acknowledge all the “progressive” albeit costly policies that have been implemented by our “enlightened” leader?

Al Willey

Edmonton

(Trudeau is well beyond his best before date and Canadians want change.)

TRUDEAU AND HIS PRONOUNCEMENTS

Our beleaguered prime minister would have us believe that he has undergone some sort of a conversion on the road to Halifax. His horrid polling numbers are a result of many of his badly conceived governance polices and desperation to cling to power is becoming clear. We need to brace ourselves for a blizzard of announcements to fix the issues that most concern voters. On the matter of immigration, much more than simply adjusting the rules for temporary foreign workers must be undertaken to address the myriad of issues besetting that file. The country simply does not have the necessary infrastructure to support the number of newcomers currently entering Canada and, as a result, is placing tremendous pressure on housing, health care, social services, food banks and schools. New immigrants need and deserve those services and, as such, those supports should be commensurate with the level of immigrants arriving in our country.

Dennis Tschirhart

Simcoe

(Any bluster coming from Trudeau is a last attempt to shore up his sagging electoral fortunes. Make no mistake, though: The polls will tighten as we get closer to an election. But will it be enough when it will be a change election?)