Letters for Aug. 5

Calgary Herald

2 days ago

Cars, cars and more cars
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Devin Dresheen is right. Let's take the tiny percentage of Calgarians who use the bike lanes to commute downtown every day and get them in a big truck on the roads instead. I think all of our commute times will improve with 26,000 new cars cramming their way into the core each morning.
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We might even be able to add enough parking spaces to fit them all if we concrete-over the green space south of the Peace Bridge and start calling it Prince's Island Park-ing lot.
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After enduring the disgraceful freedom convoy in our own country, followed by the offensive circus act south of the border, this is a time to rally as proud Canadians. Instead, the UCP is putting us through an expensive, divisive and grossly biased separation referendum.
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The list of provincial government failures is growing longer every day. Whether it's mismanagement of our Heritage Trust Fund, the 'federal fire' in Jasper, the clawback of critically needed federal disability funding, the measles outbreak and COVID vaccine fiasco, the pro-plastic and pro-carbon emission stance, provincial police stalking non-UCP politicians, etc, etc.
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It's time to come together and celebrate Canada and the long list of federal contributions to our province. It's definitely not the time to reward incompetence of the provincial government.
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Ian Wishart, Calgary
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Obfuscation, procrastination and bafflegab. Prime Minister Mark Carney says Canada is going to be an 'energy powerhouse.' So far, nothing!
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A group of entrepreneurs should announce immediately that they are going to build a twined oil and natural gas pipeline to Churchill, Manitoba. There, they will construct a new LNG facility and oil refinery, plus all the necessary infrastructure to handle exports of these products to Europe and beyond. At the same time, they will announce a new rail line from Winnipeg to Churchill to handle all the construction materials required to build this new economic giant on Hudson's Bay. A real energy giant would have the permits to proceed in 90 days – think Saudi Arabia, Qatar, etc.
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Canadian oil and gas companies already produce the cleanest and most environmentally safe fossil fuels in the world; however, this compelling project will never happen. By the time our politicians, our bureaucrats, our green protestors and First Nations have their collective 'say', the project will be dead on arrival.