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Second, dairy supply management increases the costs of poultry, eggs, butter and milk, both directly and as ingredients for all baked products. And finally, there is the daily cost of cash flows in high interest rates for all businesses.
Les Thompson, Edmonton
Done with Alberta-first whining
I am so tired of being dragged into the UCP/Alberta First obsession with Ottawa. I’m tired of the full-page ads, the TV commercials and the interminable whining of these fools and their wallowing in victimhood. I’m astounded that Albertans are not at the legislature demanding an accounting for the millions of our tax dollars being wasted on a campaign to shill for multinationals and petro-criminals.
I’m tired of Alberta government surveys that are so transparently skewed they may as well have “just ignore all this and say ‘yes’ ” emblazoned on top. I’m tired of stupid and incompetent people being elevated to critical portfolios.
But, most of all, I’m tired of the lies and theft and cronyism of the crypto-MAGA Albertans who permeate Alberta society and taint the way we are perceived by Canada and the world.
Fritz Kropfreiter, Edmonton
Carbon capture alone isn’t enough
It is good that by the Pathways Alliance, the big oilsands emitters are finally owning our substantial contribution to global warming and the climate crisis. However, their newfound commitment to carbon capture, as important as that initiative may be in the overall existential battle, is a woefully inadequate mitigation of their business plan of full-steam-ahead extraction of fossil fuels. Let us not be deceived by the campaign of full-page advertisements. Beware of greenwashing.
Jim Joosse, Edmonton
Alberta gov’t decisions bewilder
The Alberta government’s plan to withdraw Albertans from the CPP, the world’s best-performing pension fund, bewilders me. The Alberta government’s reopening of applications for coal mines in mountain headwaters, our most vulnerable landscapes, confounds me.
The Alberta government’s continued war with doctors, nurses, and other health-care providers, who we depend upon for our lives, dumbfounds me. The Alberta government’s ban on wind and solar power projects, that bring prosperity to our economy, perplexes me. The Alberta government’s general unwillingness to govern, after fighting so hard to get into power, flummoxes me. The Alberta government’s success in gaslighting its own citizens, like a flock of sheep, flabbergasts me.
Pension-plan shift at risk of bungling
Can you imagine the potential for errors in transferring a Canada Pension Plan account to a new Alberta pension plan account? Two levels of government bureaucracies trying to co-ordinate this would be quite entertaining.
Bob Dawson, Sherwood Park
