LIBERALS DON’T CARE
The co-owners of a Tim Hortons franchise in Ontario have announced a few changes to the benefits they pay their employees following the increase in the minimum wage. Premier Kathleen Wynne does not agree with these changes.
How heart-warming it is to see Wynne taking the part of ordinary workers.
This Liberal government does not care about the effects their decisions have on the people of Ontario and they never have. I hope voters realize that this is a pre-election ploy to make people forget about all the scandals they have perpetrated since 2003.
It is time to give this government a well-deserved ouster.
ALBERT O’CONNELL
CORNWALL
(It would be richly deserved.)
LIBERAL POLICIES
It’s very irritating listening to Premier Wynne and her labour minister Flynn haphazardly discarding the problems businesses will experience with the introduction of the increased minimum wage.
Most small businesses are on a slim profit margin to start with, and this extra sudden burden could be enough to put them out of business, or this could hinder many who have larger competitors.
As a retired small business owner, there are daily problems that you encounter, without having the extra burden that both the federal and provincial Liberal parties are imposing on small business due to their inability or desire to use our tax funds efficiently and appropriately.
In time this will be devastating for Ontario and it will take many years to recover from the huge losses.
I am very frightened for the younger generations inheriting the damage and massive debt they will have to endure.
RON WHITEHORNE
ALMONTE
(The debt is a ticking time bomb.)
EDITOR’S WRONG
Comments you append to letters are usually humorous and often raise new perspectives to the (letter) author’s point.
Your comment to my letter on distracted driving penalties lamely attempts to link an existing, absolute penalty to the need to increase distracted driving penalties to appropriate levels as equivalents.
The two focus on apples and orange differences.
Not only is the rejoinder a potential dissuader of support for increased sanctions of a serious threat, it’s downright specious!
And for the record, while a severe sentence like life may not prevent the initial crime, it sure prevents a second, not to mention being a deterrent to many.
MIKE ALAIN
OTTAWA
(Well, we’re glad you mostly think they’re humorous!)
BOYLE AND THE PM
I believe in “innocent until proven guilty,” including with the charges against Joshua Boyle.
Apparently all of these accusations occurred since his “welcome back” to Canada last October.
I feel only slightly sorry for his wife as she appears to fully support her husband. This is especially worrisome for their children, who deserve better parenting than they obviously have received.
Also what about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s profound, as usual, lack of judgment in having a private meeting with Boyle and family at the same time that police were conducting their investigation?
LINDSAY HEPBURN
KANATA
(The meeting is troubling.)