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Re: Toronto desperately needs change at city hall, Brian Lilley column, online, April 30<\/p>\n
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Not only Toronto! Take Ottawa. Please! Our city halls are full of leftovers. The majority of Ontario cities need a shakeup at city hall.<\/p>\n
Mayors and councillors have never run a successful business, never made fiscal bottom line, never finessed staff relations issues. Ah, but they are a caring lot, concerned with welfare payments, injection sites, bike lanes, raising taxes, and reducing crime through gentle caring and concern. That\u2019s why municipal taxpayers need to invest heavily in home security, street self-defence, vehicular protection and skilled accountants.<\/p>\n
Regardless of city, we do not elect our politicians because they are self-selected, approved by other politicians, pay their fees and are presented to us as the best available. Voters have only two choices \u2014 take it or leave it.<\/p>\n
Few bother voting, so what we have at city hall are leftovers.<\/p>\n
DYAN CROSS
OTTAWA<\/p>\n
SPENDING WHAT THEY DON\u2019T HAVE<\/p>\n
Our PM was previously a banker? His announcement in the Spring Economic Update that the projected fiscal deficit for 2025-26 will more than double his disastrous Liberal predecessor\u2019s estimate, from $31 billion to almost $67 billion, is insanity.<\/p>\n
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Bankers around the globe will all say the same thing: Don\u2019t spend what you don\u2019t have. It\u2019s basic logic, really, and yet with Mark Carney nothing has changed.<\/p>\n
Liberals just spend, spend, spend.<\/p>\n
EDDY DIGNAN
ROCKLAND<\/p>\n
WORDS THAT USED TO MATTER<\/p>\n
There are some words that used to be important that are now disappearing from our society: Honour, courage, compassion and integrity.<\/p>\n
Some changes are not for the better, and today\u2019s so-called advancements are not making us better off \u2014 far from it. At least 30 years ago a Canadian could afford a house and could put food on the table. Now, a lot of Canadians can\u2019t even put food on the table. The Salvation Army is even closing its food bank (citing financial sustainability as one of the reasons) and church in Cornwall, which is unheard of.<\/p>\n
So find a Liberal to hug for looking after us so well.<\/p>\n
PETE MCLELLAN
BROCKVILLE<\/p>\n
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