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Re: WARMINGTON: Deserving Don Cherry named to Order of Ontario, online, Feb. 17

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Don Cherry may have been outspoken during his time on Coach’s Corner on Hockey Night in Canada, but he was also humble and down to earth. He never thought of himself as being any better than the guy or gal driving the Zamboni between periods.

That said, I’m not sure he’d even want to be presented with the Order of Canada by an obsolete Governor General who just got a raise to nearly $400,000 a year, plus expenses and entourage.

Even after Mary Simon leaves, she can still bill taxpayers $206,040 a year.

That’s a lot of Grapes!

EDDY DIGNAN
ROCKLAND

CONTRACTING OUT BIGGER PROBLEM

After 2015, when Justin Trudeau became prime minister, the federal public service grew by about 40 per cent to some 360,000 employees. Therefore, Mark Carney’s “big reduction” of about 30,000 jobs over three years will be barely noticed.

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Where the real reduction is needed is in Carney’s plan to spend a massive $26.6-billion contracting out to consultants, etc. Carney has also hired several former business associates to work within his government.

Contracting out services was a major complaint against the Trudeau government and was something Pierre Poilievre campaigned on cutting, along with wasteful foreign aid.

Surely, with such a bloated public service, it could be tasked to conduct some of the work others are being hired to do.

LARRY COMEAU
OTTAWA

PUBLIC SERVANTS THOUGHT WRONG

So, Prime Minister Mark Carney has now begun to slash the public service. Most of the folks who work for the feds believed he wouldn’t cut jobs, and they have been betrayed, once again, by the Liberals.

Wish I could say I feel bad for you … but I don’t! I really don’t! You are getting precisely what you voted for. Federal employees never seem to learn. I just can’t find it in me to feel bad for them.

GLEN LAPENSKIE
NEPEAN

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