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Wildfires are a tragedy for everyone. Smoke doesn’t stop at borders. It follows the wind.

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Canada has helped the U.S. during wildfire disasters, just as the U.S. has helped Canada. Blaming either country for where smoke travels makes little sense. No government can control the direction of the wind.

Let’s support our firefighters, help affected communities and work together.

GORD GRAVELLE
KANATA

TELL US WHEN YOU’VE DONE SOMETHING

Why is the Mark Carney government wasting all those hard-earned taxpayer dollars to advertise on TV channels, telling us what they “will do” while having not one completed project or even one new one with permits completed and shovels in the ground?

Stop wasting those dollars to promote wishful thinking and illusions and using them to divert public attention from mounting failures.

Perhaps they would be advised to wait until they have something concrete and visible to report and crow about.

BETTY-ANNE TREMBLAY
OTTAWA

WHEELS UP CARNEY

Re: Carney’s $160K plane food for a single trip includes chicken chasseur and ‘death by chocolate’: CTF, online, July 16

Our prime minister’s airline takeoff season (same as all seasons) has him in his altitude café again and humming his version of that Willie Nelson song On the Road Again:

“In my plane again

Just can’t wait to taste that caviar again

The life I love is saying nothing like LeBlanc

I can’t wait to get in my plane again.”

LD CROSS
OTTAWA

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