Letter to the editor: Dear Gov.-Gen., ‘your people’ are all Canadians


Here are today’s Ottawa Sun letters to the editor.

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‘YOUR PEOPLE’ ALL CANADIANS

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Regarding Gov. Gen. Mary Simon saying, “My people are in mental distress,” during a visit to a Yukon community hit hard by drug deaths: Dear Madame GG, as Governor General, “your people” are supposed to be all Canadians, not only your self-selected segment of same.

If you cannot grasp this fact of your appointment, then resign and join the ranks of Julie Payette and other dismal GGs who failed to grasp the essence of their job description.

Like the government that appointed you, you have been making a lot of mistakes lately. Shape up or ship out.

DYAN CROSS

OTTAWA

(It’s thinking like this that underscores why her appointment is so important.)

NO ABORTION MIDDLE GROUND

Want to see people become irrational? Start a dialogue about abortion. Unlike other controversial topics, there’s no middle ground. It’s either a clear and emphatic yes or no. There is no, “Somewhere in the middle is the solution”.

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I believe there is middle ground. Surely arguments can be made for abortion when the mother’s life is in danger, maybe if the fetus is in danger. Perhaps there are other instances or circumstances that should be reviewed? Then, and only then, let the laws reflect the rights of the people.

The one thing where I believe abortion should not be considered is as a method of birth control. In this day and age, there are enough types of contraception that abortion should not be considered as contraception.

MICHAEL PERREAULT

OTTAWA

(It’s a good thing you never have to worry about an unwanted pregnancy, then.)

WHAT A SHAME

Re: Canada day fireworks; Concerts are back – along with ‘freedom’ groups, June 27

From Capt. Nichola Goddard to Corp. Nathan Cirillo and any of our never forgotten Armed Forces personnel who left us along the Highway of Heroes, what a shame “discharged” vet James Topp is using his service to his country as a platform for his own anti-vax agenda. How many more non-scientific or absent of any medical training zealots do we have to hear from? Why not remember real Canadian heroes like Billy Bishop?

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EDDY DIGNAN

ROCKLAND

(Or any number of front-line health-care workers.)

ALL IN THE FAMILY

The optics are very poor regarding Premier Doug Ford appointing his nephew as minister of multiculturalism. The rookie MPP should have spent a bit of time in the trenches before being given such an elevated position. I guess the premier figures he won’t run again in four years, so he might as well get the family in on the gravy train.

STEPHEN FLANAGAN

OTTAWA

(It’s the Nepotism Train now.)

HEARD THAT SONG BEFORE

So, in London recently, Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong, who, for some reason, is still applying black eyeliner like there’s no tomorrow, told fans he’s going to renounce his U.S. citizenship (following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overturn Roe v. Wade). We’ve heard that line before.

If Donald Trump was elected president, and he was, Barbra Streisand said she would move to Australia or Canada. Bryan Cranston said he would definitely move to Canada. Although I can’t put in writing what Samuel L. Jackson said on Jimmy Kimmel, Jackson said he’d move to South Africa.

Trump was elected president and nobody left. Billie Joe Armstrong won’t be leaving, either.

U.S. celebrities are all talk and no action.

JILL YOUNG

OTTAWA

(We’re not sure we want him anyway.)

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