Letters to the Editor: April 28, 2022

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Medicom needed

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Re: London lands $120M, 145-job PPE plant (April 27).

Kudos to London for landing the Medicom plant. Medicom is a Canadian health-care and personal protective equipment (PPE) manufacturer. Not only are the investments and jobs welcome, but the added capability to produce more PPE in Canada is critical.

Canada relied on other countries for nearly all the PPE required when COVID-19 hit. When countries did not deliver or banned exports of PPE, we were left short.

Expanding Canadian capacity and on-shoring of medical technology production is just what Canada needs as there will certainly be another pandemic.

Steve Dibert, London

Adding to our debt

After the release of both the Ontario NDP and Liberal election platforms this week, it looks like a grocery list of added services and programs without any reference to tax increases to cover the huge added costs.

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I think most Ontario voters only need to look at the recent supply and confidence agreement between our federal Liberal and NDP parties and the massive increase in national debt that this is driving without any solid GDP growth to pay for it to know that these furniture store party economic policies (buy now – 2 years free) shouldn’t capture any ballot box trust.

I’ll await the Ontario pre-election budget, which our finance minister promises will be prudent, accountable, ambitious and responsible to guide us going forward so we don’t join Argentina and Venezuela as debt-default leaders and lose all of our funded services.!

Chris ButlerLondon

be meticulous

I find the slovenly clothing worn at London city council meetings, where they make decisions for us worth hundreds of millions of dollars, to be deplorable – as are some of the decisions they make and as is how lightly they take important issues.

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Jeff Lauder, London

Smell of politics

The Thames Valley District school board trustees may have voted for a COVID mask mandate, but one would never know it by the letter sent home to families.

The letter made it feel that they were dancing softly around the issue and were quick to let everyone know there are no consequences for anyone choosing to not wear a mask.

I feel the trustees’ decision should have more support from the school board. All London trustees voted in favor of masks, while the county trustees who voted against it. I smell politics there. Do the councilors in the counties also vote conservative?

Heather Mills, London

Don’t do as PM does

Re: Burning the jet fuel with Trudeau (April 21).

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau flew 127,147 kilometers aboard government aircraft over the past 10 months. That is three trips around the world. So here we have a prime minister preaching about climate change, but he is not leading by example.

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His solution for everything is more taxes, like this carbon tax. How are people supposed to recover from the last two years if it is costing them almost a day’s wage for fuel on top of other expenses?

Trudeau’s legacy will be that he will be remembered as the worst prime minister this country has ever had.

Peter Siniowski, London

Where’s civility?

I recently came out of a store to find a truck had parked beside my car displaying a window sticker with the slogan “F**k Trudeau.” It was visible to all passing by.

This is not the first time I have seen such offensive displays having noticed similar slogans on flags and even in the front windows of homes.

Where is our sense of civility? Although we are entitled to free speech, this type of display takes that right beyond the realm of good sense or decorum. Our children and others on seeing these displays may accept this as the proper way to express themselves.

Where is our sense of consideration for others? It feels like our society is degrading daily, perhaps reflecting similar mores in the US

This has to stop.

Jim Miller, Kingsville