Letters to the Editor, May 16, 2024

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JUSTIN’S BUDGET BONANZA

Wow!  Did Justin and Chrystia win some multi-billion-dollar lottery we don’t know about? The Liberal government is doing what it does best – spending liberally. With Justin Trudeau criss-crossing the country with spending announcements every day, you’d think there was an election around the corner, but no, it’s just the goodies in the budget. Captain Canada will fix housing, school lunch programs, create AI infrastructure and God knows what else. Canada’s financial cupboard is already bare from kowtowing to NDP demands in exchange for their support. But what will next year – an actual election year bring? Even more big spending that will drive Canada into such a financial hole that it will take 100 years for its citizens to pay their way out of. After the next election, the Liberal team in Opposition will be pushing the Conservative government  to “reel in spending” and harping about “expensive programs” (that they introduced). Once again, the Liberals as usual, will blame the new government for making tough decisions to straighten out the social/financial mess 10 years in the making.

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Tony Borbely                                                                                                                                               Calgary

(Conservatives will once again have to clean up the mess the Liberals and NDP made. It will be a heavy lift, given so many of Trudeau’s failed policies will have to be at minimum cancelled)

STAY AWAY FROM THEM

Boycotting businesses can be effective. When I was a high school student many years ago, the cafeteria hiked the price of milk, even though milk prices in other sources remained unchanged. By word of mouth, all the students organized a total boycott of the cafeteria in a school of 1,800 students. For two days, they sold less than $5 of product, with only the cafeteria lessee’s own children breaking the solidarity. After the two days, milk prices returned to normal and the boycott ended. More recently, we are personally boycotting businesses who charge fees for using a credit card. It seems others must be doing this as well, since these fees have gained very little traction. Since prices, that had included this overhead for years, did not go down when the fee was introduced, it was clearly just a cash grab. Consumers need to stand up to businesses who are ripping people off.

Steen I. Petersen                                                                                                                                              Nanaimo, B.C.

(Consumers used to be in the driver’s seat, so to speak. Certain sectors in our economy will always be able to hold us hostage)