thenownewspaper.com Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Their sacrifices should be examples to all of us
R. D. Killoran, Surrey
Who gets all those Air Miles? The Editor, I am curious, who gets all the
Air Miles for the trips back and forth from Surrey to Ottawa for our MP and his family? Let’s say 20 business-class trips for four people every year for the last six years or so, we are talking massive air miles. If our hard-working MP collects the Air Miles, does he pay tax on them like he should, or do they get swept under the carpet and politely ignored? Sorry to sound pissed, but it sounds like a pig at the trough to me, not a careful custodian of the public purse. The latter is what I thought we were electing six years ago.
Kevin Anstey, Surrey
Thank you very much for your opinion.
Svetlana Tikhomirova Surrey
On behalf of uncle: thanks The Editor, Re: “My MP doesn’t know meaning of national service,” the Now, June 4. On behalf of my uncle in Montreal, Lawrence Hall – who fought in Korea and to this day cannot speak of it – thank you. Thank you for honouring our veterans.
Tracy Bell White Rock
Column gets it right The Editor, Re: “My MP doesn’t know meaning of national service,” the Now, June 4. Michael Booth’s column made me feel that there is life on the Earth if somebody in Canada can understand “what kind of price was paid for democracy.” I will place a link to your article at the website G-to-G – “Geologist To Geologist” since I have the same talk about the price for natural resources in my motherland, Russia.
Column is ‘frame worthy’ The Editor, Re: “My MP doesn’t know meaning of national service,” the Now, June 4. Thank you for this “frame worthy” enlightening opinion. I do appreciate it and will reread often to clearly remind me of what Russ Hiebert, an egotistical self-serving man, has to offer. I spent my working life (so far) travelling domestically and internationally. I never kept track but
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at times I was away more than 50 per cent of the year. My wife and I raised four wonderful children. Not once did either of us ever feel that our relationship with each other or our children was in jeopardy because I left them at home. They all understood and appreciated the job needed to get done in order to live and prosper. No private sector employer would agree to his expenses, so why should the taxpayer? The man is ignorant beyond comprehension. Some readers are focusing on present global economic conditions. I don’t believe there should be any relationship. Even under the most booming conditions this man and his extravagant expenditure of public money is wrong.
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The Editor, Re: “My MP doesn’t know meaning of national service,” the Now, June 4. Thank you, Michael Booth and the Now for a wonderful article. I also feel that the sacrifices of our past generations should be examples for all Canadians. As most of the names of those who fell in foreign lands fighting for our freedoms were from nocollar or blue-collar families, Russ Hiebert cannot feel these sacrifices. The working poor have always been Canada’s backbone, building a better country for their children’s better lives. Hiebert will never allow himself to understand this. Nobody from the hard working classes would ever consider first-class travel if even free when all around there are fellow workers losing their jobs, savings and pensions. Hiebert is just not prepared to understand values such as compassion, patriotism and love for our country. Thank you again for your article of what Canada proudly stands for.
Rolf Dolling Surrey
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