OPINION
There are too many issues that PC candidates would need to be able to explain – diverting our tax dollars to private companies to privatize health care while hospitals are forced to close ERs and operating rooms due to under funding, Greenbelt and Ontario Place scandals, rushing to have beer and booze in corner stores and again using tax dollars to pay the penalty to LCBO (causing lost jobs at LCBO and Beer Stores), under funding schools and post secondary institutions so that now we see St. Lawrence and Algonquin Colleges cancelling courses and closing campuses (again lost jobs and lost opportunities for our young people to be educated locally), awarding a huge contract and long-term license to the long term care private company with the worst (appalling) care and conditions and deaths during Covid, abolishing the random inspections and accountability at long term care homes providing free rein for neglect, and on and on. No wonder PC candidates need shielding from voters’ questions.
But that is very arrogant to assume we will vote for them anyway! This “needed mandate” to spend funds to fight Trump’s tariffs is just an excuse to divert more money to Ford’s priorities, not ours.
Judy Sauve
Eganville, ON
Editor’s note: Although originally submitted in response to Oliver Jacob’s appeal to the candidates to attend public meetings, The Current publishes it in its own right given that only three candidates appeared at the meeting in Cobden last week. The wording in the letter was amended on Feb.16th from Canada Place to Ontario Place to correct the typo.
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