YOU SAID IT: Tariff hike? Amazing

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RATE WALK? AMAZING

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Re: transportation return plan in progress; The city’s draft budget for the 22nd includes $ 161.6 million tied for COVID response, transit, Nov. 4

It’s amazing that OC Transpo had the audacity to raise rates. Long before the LRT fiasco, riders have endured canceled routes, buses unable to climb hills in the winter, individual routes split into two or more transfers, crowded buses, long waits, and so on. Worse still, no one will ever forget those killed and injured in two fatal bus accidents.

OC Transpo should pay us to use their system and not the other way around.

JUDY WARREN

OTTAWA

(The public has lost confidence in the city’s transportation system.)

I’M HOME

Re: PCR test is still a travel drag, online edition 7 Nov

Irony, your name is Trudeau (with apologies to Shakespeare in Hamlet).

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It is ironic that this government will not allow private paid provincial healthcare, but it will dictate a private paid PCR test to show that vaccinated Canadians are healthy enough to return to their so-called “homeland.”

Quebec has a health care system that combines payment by the user and payment by the province, but Quebec has a “special” status.

I will not travel to the US for a week in December because I refuse to be abducted by dictation to take a PCR test before returning to my internment in Canada.

This insulting PCR scam is the latest in a series of contradictory demands from our political autocrats who do what I say, not what I do.

DYAN CRUZ

OTTAWA

(We’re not convinced that making taxpayers pay the bill for those who choose to travel would win any praise.)

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RISE BY RE-ELECTION

I can not stop laughing. Doug Ford raised the minimum wage to $ 15 an hour. OMG that’s so much fun. But of course we all know it’s just a ruse to get re-elected. I bet he will reverse it within the first two months of being re-elected.

BRIAN SCOTT

OTTAWA

(He already delayed the raise once.)

YOU MUST REMAIN CAUTIOUS

Re: sudden increase in case count; Province loses ground in pandemic battle, Nov. 8

With nearly 40 percent of a recent one-day provincial count of new cases from double-vaccinated people, are we overdoing our safety measures? It doesn’t seem like that. We all work to feel the sun and the warm breeze from May to September. The freedoms of summer are quickly turning into winter. It is time to take precautions again.

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In Canada, we are fortunate to have access to vaccines, so the measures we have learned will keep us going economically. Since only a small fraction of the world is like us, we must continue with our proven security measures. Until more discoveries are made, it appears that the cautious approach should continue. It may not be how any of us want to live, but if you’ve paid attention to the rest of our world, it seems like it’s the only option.

Initially we did not like the restrictions on smoking in public or the mandatory seat belts in vehicles, but now they are accepted automatically. What we are doing is not perfect, but pretending that COVID-19 is gone will only extend the recovery time.

MIKE DEFALCO

ARNPRIOR

(Well said.)