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The leadership of CUPW and some of its members say they don’t want services to the public to be cut.
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I probably receive one letter per month. I don’t need five-day delivery and neither do my friends and relatives.
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What I do want is for my parcels to be delivered, including on weekends. In fact, as I write this, one of my parcels is stuck in a Canada Post facility in Ontario.
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Our government should stop letting the tail wag the dog, especially if the dog is on life support.
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Victor Montesano, Montreal
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Ottawa’s stance not good enough
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Ottawa has taken a milquetoast approach to the use of Canada’s notwithstanding clause.
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In their intervention on Quebec’s secularism law, the feds don’t question the use of the clause; they argue simply that the Supreme Court should at least have the power to determine whether the law is constitutional.
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Not good enough. Either we have a charter that protects rights and freedoms, or we don’t.
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And if we don’t, that is no small technicality. Liberty is central to Canada. Our forebears fought and died for it.
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If freedoms can be suspended for five-year intervals or their suspension can be pre-emptively repeated, then Canada may be north, but it certainly cannot be free or true to its ideals.
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Keith Henderson, Montreal West
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Language red tape hinders Quebec
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Andrew Lutfy has hit the nail on the head. The CAQ’s obsession with eliminating the use of English as much as possible is hindering the growth and competitiveness of Quebec and its economy.
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English is not a disease or a curse. Bilingualism is a benefit that has the potential to add to the economic development for our province and access to global markets from import and export perspectives.
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David Boyd, Beaconsfield
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Forever indebted to Balfour Mount
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As a former certified oncology social worker, I had the good fortune to have come under the aura of Balfour Mount and to be embraced by his philosophy — namely that one’s clinical intervention should always attempt to treat the “whole person” and not allow for the disease to be the exclusive focal point.