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Re: Police keep carbon tax protesters away from highway; Organizers say they will continue until the tax is rescinded, April 3
The Herald spoke to a protester, ‘Frank’, who was apparently concerned that they weren’t allowed to block the highway, but he didn’t even have the courage to give the reporter his surname.
Protesters are selfish enough to cause great inconvenience, and even danger, to push their point, such as the anarchists who brought Ottawa to a standstill trying to remove the legitimately elected Government of Canada.
Thanks to the RCMP for thwarting them this time.
James Currie, Calgary
Put focus on province’s fiscal failures
Instead of turning police officers into Axe the Tax protest babysitters, do the research. Focus your protests on the billions of dollars owed to you to clean up the thousands of orphan wells abandoned by energy companies because they were no longer profitable.
If you are going to protest, do it right.
Focus on the billions of lost dollars owed to you by your provincial government rather than on the added pennies at the pump from the increased federal carbon tax.
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Harry B. Chase, Calgary
MPs oddly quiet about hefty pay raises
I am a conservative and always will be, but while the conservatives led by Pierre Poilievre are screaming “axe the tax” and getting national headlines, not one conservative MP spoke out against the pay raise for MPs that took effect April 1. Speaking out would have been the honourable thing to do.
One would think that our liberal, socialist government supported by the NDP, who believe in equality for all, would be the first to reject a pay raise and share the pain with average Canadians.
Maybe it’s time for our MPs to actually stand with their constituents and “take one for the team” instead of making out like a bunch of bandits.
Barry Jackson, Millet
PM reckless with our tax dollars
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, with reckless audacity, said federal funds for research into “How climate change interacts with democratic decline . . . will also help protect the human rights of environmental defenders.” In my opinion, these are the words of a desperate dictator intent on spreading Canadian taxpayers’ money globally.
Examples include $8.4 million to study how autocracy thrives in warming temperatures; $30 million to “strengthen democracies”; $44.8 million for “climate crisis” activities of various Caribbean agencies; and $50 million to Global Citizens Festival in South Africa.
John Bates, Rocky View County
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