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OPINION: If liberals voted their values, America would be saved - Lewiston Morning Tribune

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September 20, 2023

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TORONTO Before the Ontario Liberals second leadership debate, the Ontario PC Party released the following statement:

In two straight elections, voters have said NO to the Liberals and stripped them of official party status.

The people of Ontario havent forgotten the Liberal record: creating the healthcare crisis, firing 1,600 nurses, freezing healthcare funding, driving up the cost of living, closing over 600 schools, and driving 300,000 manufacturing jobs out of the province.

Worse, the Liberal leadership candidates just cant stop saying NO.

While our PC Team is moving forward with our plan for the biggest public transit expansion in Ontarios history, some Liberal leadership candidates said NO.

While our PC team is building Ontarios economy with lower taxes, less red tape, and strong pay cheques for workers, some Liberal leadership candidates said NO.

The Liberals rhetoric cant hide their record. The only thing they have is their continued ability to say NO to getting it done.

While the Liberals continue down their path of saying NO, our PC team will continue to move forward with our ambitious plan to get it done.

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Canada's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance, Chrystia Freeland, presents the federal government budget for the 2023 to 2024 fiscal year in the House of Commons on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on March 28.BLAIR GABLE/Reuters

Re The Liberals are letting themselves become Pierre Poilievres punching bag (Sept. 14): The Trudeau Liberals have been a better government than I ever expected, but then I am a former NDP MP whos never voted for them. The thought of their being replaced by Pierre Poilievre and the Conservatives scares me, as his first business would likely be to axe carbon pricing, one of the few things we have done right on climate change.

Recall that in 2009, the B.C. NDP ran an axe the tax election campaign against Canadas first carbon tax brought in by the provincial Liberals (bless them). The NDP lost that election and the next two.

May axe the tax have the same effect federally.

Lynn McDonald CM, Toronto

Re For the foreign-interference inquiry to be effective, Justice Hogue needs the right tools (Sept. 11): The idea for such an inquiry may appear laudable, but the task is mountainous.

The inquiry is to cover China, Russia and other hostile countries. Are we to assume that the government has reliable data to classify countries as hostile? Are they so few that they can be covered comprehensively within the allotted six months?

At times, friendly countries can and do carry out unfriendly interference. In 2013, it was reported that the United States was snooping on Angela Merkels phone conversations (U.S. spy chief says foreign wiretap operations are entirely normal Oct. 29, 2013).

Ingredients for successful interference include insider sympathizers and financial collaborators. As much as possible, such people will likely obstruct or sabotage the inquiry.

Will the inquiry be able to identify and neutralize such people? Will it really have more than the curated access of David Johnston?

Muri Abdurrahman Thornhill, Ont.

Re If Chrystia Freeland needs a tool to help Canadians, she should start by freezing spending (Editorial, Sept. 13): I believe the will to spend, without the courage to tax, is political cowardice.

Michael Arkin Toronto

Re Liberals target grocers with changes to Competition Act, threaten tax measures if prices dont stabilize (Report on Business, Sept. 15): The Liberal government should look in the mirror to see how their policies are increasing the price of groceries.

Supply management increases the price of dairy, eggs and cheese. Carbon pricing increases the price of food transported across the country. Our declining dollar drives up the cost of imported food products.

No doubt groceries have increased in price, but I still feel blessed when I walk into any of our grocery chains and see the abundance and variety of foods on display. Without profit, our grocers would not be in business.

Doug and Jan Ireland Tiny, Ont.

Re Canadas bankers lash out at Liberals for picking on financial services firms with new taxes (Report on Business, Sept. 12): The governments new tax measures should not be singling out the banking sector.

Large corporations across a wide range of sectors in Canada made record profit in recent years. Just six of the countrys biggest oil and gas corporations enjoyed $35-billion in profit in 2022. Canadas three largest grocery chains reaped nearly $18-billion in excess revenue from 2020 to 2022.

Excess corporate profit has not helped Canadian consumers or workers, but they have contributed to inflation and inequality. The revenue from a windfall tax would provide far more support for Canadians and the economy.

Katrina Miller Executive director, Canadians for Tax Fairness; Toronto

Re Bank of Canada is bleeding the economy, just like 19th-century doctors bled patients (Report on Business, Sept. 14): The Globe and Mail reports that investors account for 30 per cent of home buying in Canada, data show (Sept. 9). Most investors are flush with cash and less dependent than most other people on traditional forms of financing such as mortgages.

When mortgages for average Canadians are up for renewal and they are unable to renew them due to the rate hikes imposed by the Bank of Canada, they would put their homes up for sale. The 30 per cent figure would significantly increase.

Is this what the bank is trying to accomplish?

James McCarney Oakville, Ont.

Re Trudeau unveils housing funds for London, offers no details on broader plan (Sept. 14): The Globe and Mail recently reported that London, Ont., was at the top of a list of smaller cities with big-fish investors, owners of three or more condo properties who account for 94.2 per cent of these London investment properties (Larger investors dominate condo ownership in smaller cities in Ontario and B.C. Report on Business, June 22).

Before governments throw more money at the housing problem, we should ask what they are doing to ensure these dwellings go to those who need them. Or, like the Ford governments Ontario Greenbelt fiasco, is it just making the rich richer?

Tom Suhadolc Grimsby, Ont.

Re Key OSC witness in Bridging Finance case alleges executives altered loan documents and kept conflicts of interest secret (Report on Business, Sept. 14): I read the details of how shockingly simple it was for Bridging Finance executives to allegedly steal millions of dollars from investors, as well as another article explaining a new proposal by the province to allow the Ontario Securities Commission to enrich its own funding from fines, rather than direct a significant portion of recouped money to bilked investors (Ontario government balks as millions from investment scofflaws sits unspent Report on Business, Aug. 31).

Forgive me if Ive lost the plot. Who exactly is looking out for Ontario investors?

Shelly McQuillen Ottawa

Re Guerrero on knife edge of success or failure, depending on the Jays playoff push (Sports, Sept. 13): When are the Toronto Blue Jays going to part ways with general manager Ross Atkins?

In Gabriel Moreno and Lourdes Gurriel Jr., I think Mr. Atkins surrendered far too much for the offensively challenged Daulton Varsho. And it was Mr. Atkins who hired coach John Schneider, who has proven to me wholly incapable of extracting the best from a talented roster. This while the Jays have a seasoned baseball mind in its midst with bench coach Don Mattingly.

Unless the team wishes to see the hugely disappointing 2022 campaign repeated, it should make changes at the helm. Otherwise, an expensive stadium full of empty seats may be on the horizon.

Greg Longphee Victoria

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What a surprise! A defendant with seven prior arrests, two misdemeanor convictions and two pending cases in New York one for grand larceny and one for sexual assault didnt show up for a court hearing after he was released on nonmonetary bond thanks to District Judge Xander Orenstein, who campaigned on social justice issues, including stopping the use of cash bail (Suspect in $1.6M fentanyl case fails to show for court hearing, Sept. 11, TribLIVE). The judge said they would carefully consider a persons history and characteristics before setting any bail condition.

Orenstein succeeded in putting a career criminal back on the street to continue his life of crime. Im sure all the social liberals and criminals applauded this decision. Im sure Pittsburgh will continue to vote for people like Orenstein, especially since these types of judges work out so well in New York. I seem to have missed Mayor Ed Gaineys response to this.

Michael Easterbrook

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OTTAWA The Liberal government's representative in the Senate encouraged the Upper Chamber to pass its bail-reform bill "expeditiously" Thursday, while acknowledging the picture of what bail looks like in Canada is incomplete. Sen.

OTTAWA The Liberal government's representative in the Senate encouraged the Upper Chamber to pass its bail-reform bill "expeditiously" Thursday, while acknowledging the picture of what bail looks like in Canada is incomplete.

Sen. Marc Gold confirmed during a debate that the bail-reform package will be studied by a Senate committee, after the House of Commons gave unanimous consent Monday to pass the bill without study by MPs.

The legislation was ultimately referred to the Senate's legal affairs committee Thursday afternoon, but not before many senators voiced concerns about the potential effects of the bill and the fact members of Parliament declined to study it.

Prince Edward Island Sen. Percy Downe said that MPs "dropped the ball" in rushing the changes through the House of Commons without further scrutiny.

He said that leaves the Senate having to start from "ground zero" in its review of the legislation.

The speedy passage of the bill so far has also prompted concern from civil-society groups that say its measures could worsen the overrepresentation of Black and Indigenous individuals behind bars, and lead to more people making false guilty pleas so they can leave pre-trial detention.

Many of the same concerns were voiced by senators.

"I understand the emotional and political impetus to speed this bill to passage, but I am concerned at the speed at which things are moving," said Alberta Sen. Paula Simons said Thursday.

"Because we are dealing with an issue in which people's fundamental liberties are at stake."

The Liberals brought in the bill, which would make it harder for certain offenders to get bail, amid widespread pressure from provincial premiers and police chiefs for Ottawa to toughen up existing laws following a string of high-profile violent incidents involving repeat offenders.

That included the shooting death of Ontario Provincial Police Const. Greg Pierzchala in late December.

Court documents show a man who is co-accused of first-degree murder in the case was denied bail on unrelated assault and weapons charges months before the shooting, but was released after a review. A warrant for his arrest was issued after he failed to show up for a court date months before Pierzchala's killing.

The Liberal bill proposes to expand reverse-onus provisions for certain offenders.

It means that instead of the Crown having to prove why someone charged with a crime ought to stay behind bars while they are awaiting trial, the responsibility shifts to the accused to prove why they should be let out.

The bill, tabled last May before Parliament took a summer recess, seeks to expand reverse-onus measures for certain firearm and weapons offences, as well as in some circumstances when the alleged crime involves intimate partner violence.

In arguing in favour of the bill, Gold said it is designed to target people charged with serious violent offences.

But he acknowledged that not enough data is being collected about what bail looks like in Canada right now.

"It's a critical question: What is the impact of this bill or what might it have been?" Gold said. "We don't have proper data."

Some Conservative senators voiced concerns that the proposed measures would not capture enough offences and need to be strengthened to better protect potential crime victims.

But Sen. Kim Pate suggested Thursday that the high-profile violent crimes that led to calls for bail reform were "outliers."

Pate is a former executive director the Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies, which advocates for criminal justice reform.

She called the Liberal bill a piece of "performance legislation," and warned it could lead to "discriminatory outcomes" against people who are Black, Indigenous, living with mental illness or members of other vulnerable groups who are already overrepresented in provincial jails.

"Who will this bill actually end up jailing?" Pate asked.

She added: "The public should be horrified by the willingness of elected officials to bypass the usual process of studying a bill and evidence, such as that of what Canadian crime rates actually are."

Federal Justice Minister Arif Virani, who earlier in the week defended the bill's quick passage into the Senate, said in a social media post on Thursday that he hopes the legislation "gets Royal Assent as fast as possible."

This report by The Canadian Press was first published Sept. 21, 2023.

Stephanie Taylor, The Canadian Press

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