{"id":612222,"date":"2026-04-18T10:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T10:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/612222\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T10:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T10:45:09","slug":"you-said-it-go-sens-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/612222\/","title":{"rendered":"YOU SAID IT: Go Sens Go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Article contentGO SENS GO<\/p>\n<p>Well, let\u2019s hope the Sens can take us on as wild a ride as the Blue Jays did last year.<\/p>\n<p>Article content<\/p>\n<p>Regardless of the outcome, they have made watching them this season an absolute blast as they clawed their way back into contention.<\/p>\n<p>The best thing of all is that it is a perfect distraction from the gong show on Parliament Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Who knows, maybe by the end of June we could be having a parade down Bank Street while watching a ground-breaking ceremony for a new pipeline.<\/p>\n<p>OK, OK, I will settle for the parade, but only because I don\u2019t have any pigs that can fly.<\/p>\n<p>WAYNE BOYCE<br \/>CARLETON PLACE<\/p>\n<p>LONGING FOR THE HARPER DAYS<\/p>\n<p>So Mark Carney secures his majority by using five turncoats. It\u2019s all Elbows Up smoke and mirrors, all the while giving the finger to our Canadian democratic election process, just laughing out loud as he makes his backroom deals.<\/p>\n<p>After a lost Liberal decade of unaccountability, with $200 billion in tax bucks blown on zero results in climate change alone, sadly Canucks have just accepted that waste as just the way it is.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever happened to the common sense and fiscal responsibility we had under Stephen Harper?<\/p>\n<p>EDDY DIGNAN<br \/>ROCKLAND<\/p>\n<p>FROM BAD TO WORSE<\/p>\n<p>Liberal voters are now giddy with excitement over the Mark Carney majority.<\/p>\n<p>Article content<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s my prediction: Things will go from bad to worse for Canadians over the next three or four years. Liberal voters will get so angry at the Liberal party that Carney will only serve one term as prime minister. The Liberals will then install a new face, and Liberal supporters will flock back and vote them back in, and somehow, some way, it will all be Stephen Harper\u2019s fault.<\/p>\n<p>GLEN LAPENSKIE<br \/>NEPEAN<\/p>\n<p>DEMOCRACY IS DEAD<\/p>\n<p>Let\u2019s get one thing straight right: The Liberals did not win a majority. There is nothing democratic about the way Mark Carney got his majority. Had those turncoats been forced to run as Liberals in byelections, they would have lost.<\/p>\n<p>Democracy is officially dead in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Liberal voters have no idea what\u2019s in store for Canadians.<\/p>\n<p>SANDY JOHNSTON<br \/>GREELY<\/p>\n<p>HAVE YOUR SAY<\/p>\n<p data-async=\"\">Your letters are welcome, at:\u00a0<a data-evt-val=\"{\" control_fields=\"\" link=\"\" data-evt=\"click\" data-evt-typ=\"click\" href=\"mailto:OttSun.Oped@sunmedia.ca\">OttSun.Oped@sunmedia.ca<\/a>.\u00a0Include your first and last name\u00a0AND city\/town. Keep your letters short \u2014 and please\u00a0try to be civil, even when criticizing or disagreeing. We edit for accuracy, length, clarity and legal concerns.<\/p>\n<p>Read More<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ottawasun.com\/opinion\/letters\/you-said-it-pasted-together-politics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks during a press conference at the West Block on Parliament Hill on April 14, 2026. Carney's Liberal party secured a majority on April 13 after winning all three byelection seats up for grabs.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2270830988_302578363.jpg\"  class=\"lazyload\" height=\"96\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"96\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>YOU SAID IT: Pasted-together politics<\/p>\n<p> <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/ottawasun.com\/opinion\/letters\/you-said-it-carneys-triple-e-food-bank-in-the-sky\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Prime Minister Mark Carney.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2269955102_302499409.jpg\"  class=\"lazyload\" height=\"96\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"96\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>YOU SAID IT: Carney\u2019s triple-E food bank in the sky<\/p>\n<p> <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Share this article in your social network<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Article contentGO SENS GO Well, let\u2019s hope the Sens can take us on as wild a ride as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":612223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":{"0":"post-612222","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ottawa","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-ottawa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/612223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}