Letters March 13: Higher salaries should mean fewer positions for city workers
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VOTE IN TODAY”S POLL: Should Sohi be one of Canada’s best-paid mayors?
GIVE AND TAKE
So the union representing city employees had served its strike notice after rejecting the last and best offer from the city. Given what the taxpayers of this city have already endured with this inept city council, the only solution is clear. If the union insists on the wage increases they have demanded, an equivalent number of staff positions need to be eliminated to cover the costs. Both sides need to learn that there is limits on the taxpayer’s dollar.
NELSON CABRAL
(Maybe city council should be downsized now that it has given itself a raise.)
MONEY TALKS
Edmonton regulations put a 15-cent charge on bags at restaurants apparently for environmentalism. It has only been an inconvenient cost to consumers with or without the bag. Here’s an idea that supports innovation and job creation. Why don’t you offer customers five cents back upon return of the bag to a new recycling depot of sorts. Rewarding the customer with money back encourages them to be environmentalists continually.
CHARLES DECHAMBRE
(Something to consider.)
FOCUS ON PRIORITIES
People are starving in Canada right now, Justin Trudeau, because they cannot afford your destructive and dysfunctional insanity. Focus on food banks right now, instead of funding foreign unnecessary billion-dollar battery plants at our expense. Your former friend Ontario Premier Doug Ford recently said it all. Start listening to all Canadians or you’re done. That simple.
DARYL COTE
(That ship may have sailed.)
FIGHT TB
Over 1.3 million children globally develop tuberculosis (TB) every year. This makes TB one of the deadliest infectious diseases, and it takes advantage of vulnerable populations. More than half of the children that develop TB never get diagnosed, treated, or given a fighting chance. We cannot ignore these statistics. We must take action. I call on the Canadian government to contribute their share of $50 million to improve the technology available to treat, detect, and prevent TB.
SYDNEY PESKETT
(TB is one disease that keeps rearing its ugly head.)
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