Today’s Letters: Rogers Breakdown; the Ottawa mayoral race; and lessons from Boris Johnson

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Rogers’ lack of communication is unacceptable.

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Re: Rogers outage cost small businesses thousands of dollars: CFIB, Jul 11.

As a Rogers subscriber, I also received an email on Saturday from CEO Tony Staffieri. On Friday, Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne said in a statement that Rogers had been asked “…to provide quick and clear communication directly to those affected.” Despite this request, Staffieri’s email was anything but clear communication, and instead was an exercise in evasiveness, falsehood, lies, and arrogance.

As of Monday night, the company’s network and systems were “…nowhere near fully operational…” and many customers (myself included) continue to experience service interruptions. There were no further communications from Rogers explaining the ongoing outages. Staffieri and Rogers refused to comment during the worst of Friday’s disruptive outage, and it appears they continue to hide from the press and their customers.

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Unacceptable. An immediate CRTC/parliamentary inquiry is needed to fully understand this specific event, including Rogers’ apparent inability to manage maintenance updates to its system (the cause of two widespread outages in 18 months) and to clearly define required service levels. by the law.

Michele Dumas, Ottawa

Be more specific, Mr. Sutcliffe

Re: Sutcliffe: I am running for Mayor to make Ottawa a safe, affordable and trustworthy city for all on July 11th.

Mark Sutcliffe’s article doesn’t tell me much about what he’s “for” and what he’s “against”: what he wants to change and what he wants to keep doing the way it’s done now.

Mr. Sutcliffe, you say you’re worried about rising costs but then, around the same time, you say you want to improve transportation, improve public safety, take care of the environment and green space. All those upgrades cost money. You also want to provide more oversight to our light rail project. You want to have collaborative leadership and bring people together.

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I don’t think there is any candidate for mayor who would say anything different. He will have to work harder to speak his mind clearly so that he understands what kind of mayor he would be.

Patricia Shapiro, Greeley

And what about our own prime minister?

Re: Boris Johnson resigns as UK Prime Minister on July 7.

While the parliaments of Canada and the UK function in similar ways, the recent resignation of Boris Johnson highlights one particular difference.

Johnson was forced to resign after strong pressure from members of his own party over what, by Canadian standards, might be considered trivial matters: Christmas parties while the country was in lockdown and support for a minister accused of sexual misconduct. , also as somewhat less than honest in his explanations.

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Here in Canada, we have a prime minister who has been censured several times by the ethics commissioner for much more serious misdeeds and has often been very cheap with the truth. Despite having lobbied his own attorney general in the SNC-Lavalin affair and, more recently, allegedly interfering with the RCMP after the Nova Scotia massacre; and despite his government’s multi-million dollar dealings with a certain charity, the silence from members of his party about his conduct has been deafening.

Do Liberal MPs generally agree with the Prime Minister’s transgressions, or are they just afraid to speak out?

Charles Morton, Manotick