Prime Minister doesn’t deserve all the blame being put on him
By Lethbridge Herald on August 16, 2024.
Editor:
It’s rather sad/humorous that Justin seems to have such power! Did he also start the Second World War? Or are we just ready for a “new” government, one which will take away all those benefits that we are complaining about because they cost so much? Remember, if our budget becomes balanced, where do you think the money to reduce that deficit will come from, eh?
No government has a product to sell; they do not manufacture anything to sell to others thus producing a profit! We are getting roads, bridges, police protection, fire fighting personnel and equipment, as well as getting military protection and any number of other life-saving benefits! Nope! I do not mind paying my taxes in return for this protection.
I only wish that the more wealthy persons would have to kick in a bit more of their well-earned money. We complain about the high cost of living yet there are those in our community who gladly spend a week’s salary to attend a sporting event in a sports facility which our taxes have helped build.
Then there are those who earn in a few weeks what the average Canadian has to work all year to receive. Yep! It’s Trudeau’s fault. I can hardly wait to see what our new government will offer us for kicking him out of his office!
Gene Balay
Lethbridge
8-7
There is the ultra right wing swallowing of the Danielle Smith koolaid “let’s bash and blame Trudeau” for everything. That would stop if Poilievre became the Prime Minister. Who to blame and diss then?
The conservatives in my world aren’t fans of Trudeau but certainly trust him a lot more than Reformer Pierre Poilievre and these phoney Conservatives. What is so disgusting to us is the lack of respect they have shown our children and grandchildren with the massive financial mess they have created for them to deal with.
I think lawyers are right we should start holding them and their supporters financially responsible for what they have done to us. There is no way our children will have the money to pay the orphan oil well cleanup mess that is growing as oilmen point out, or the $77 billion debt they are mainly responsible for by slashing Lougheed’s oil royalties and corporate taxes.
These mindless seniors in Edmonton are saying that the fire in Jasper was all Trudeau’s fault, just like Danielle Smith wants them to, because he didn’t send the Army in soon enough to help out, totally ignorant of what the Mountain Pine Beetles have done to our forests and this could happened anywhere in Alberta. They refuse to believe what the firefighters are saying this fire travelled so quickly with high winds that nothing could stop it. That’s how stupid these people are.
Gene Making the rich pay their fair share came to a halt in Alberta when the morons who support these Reformers, pretending they are conservatives, allowed Ralph Klein to deliberately destroy what Peter Lougheed had created for us, didn’t it? It didn’t happen in Alaska and Norway and look at what their massive oil wealth is doing for them? Peter Lougheed was furious with what Klein did to us and some of his own family members were also. We estimate that Albertans have lost at least a Trillion Dollars thanks to what they have done to us and what Alaska and Norway have collected proves it.
best to acknowledge that big corp/oligarchy/oligopoly, extending to the world bank and imf all have far more influence on canadian policies than does trudeau…or would the likes of poilievre. those that cannot accept as much must believe that corp donations are goodwill gestures, just like are their actions that impoverish peace, peoples and environments the world over.
So while 80% in the survey claim we are paying too much in taxes, why have we allowed these Reformers to help the rich steal billions of our oil and corporate tax wealth and not provided us with a fair share like Lougheed was doing?