PROSPERITY TO POVERTY IN ONE GENERATION

Re: your article last week about the Tamil “refugees”, the ugly truth is that there are not millions, but BILLIONS of people around the world who live in poverty, with disease, or under outright
oppression and might well want to emigrate to Canada if given the opportunity. The sheer weight of the numbers tells us that our country, if left unguarded, could be ground down into Third World status in a generation, should the wave of immigration be allowed to flow unchecked.

The issue is, unfortunately, not the specifics of the personal tragic circumstances that might exist in that small group of tamils in B.C., but rather the precedent it could create. With the wrong leadership the prosperous country of Canada could easily find itself in social upheaval, political
quagmire, and financial ruin.

To help the world, the country must remain strong and to that end strong controls on our borders are a necessity. I hope the Government of Canada has the courage to hold the line on
immigration, despite the appeal of personal tragedies that are so commonplace around the world in the 21st century.

Arn Brown
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DALTON SAID NO PARENTAL CONTROL OF EDUCATION TAX ALLOCATION- AND ONTARIO VOTERS AGREED

Our children have been in French Immersion school all the time.

How can the government assume that we support the public school system in general when I want my taxes going to the French school only?

Lorena

PS: I really enjoy your radio show. My family thinks is boring but I don’t care.

As we understand it, your concern is that the education taxes you pay go into the general school fund, and such money as is allocated to French Immersion depends on the bureaucrats and not you.

In the last election the key issue for most people was “faith-based schools” and John Tory, who would in our opinion would have been a far better premier than Fibber McGuinty, was defeated because he thought parents should have more control over where their education taxes went.

A government that was elected largely on the basis of their promise not to allow such parental control cannot be expected to allow parent-targetted funding for specialized language schools, and they don’t.

(PS: Well I think your family sounds boring, but I’m very glad you like the radio show! Jim)

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MARY LOU IS ON THE MONEY

Mary Lou Ambrogio’s comments make a lot of sense.  These “B’S” are scary !

George
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I thouroughly enjoyed Mary Lou Ambrogio’s comments about city hall politics. There is so much downright incompetence and lack of simple common sense that it sometimes infuriates me. It helps to know there are people like Mary Lou out there who recognize it and are willing to speak out. I wish more people would. And by the by, let’s make sure we all go to the polls on election day and vote the rascals out, especially the Bees.

Susan Sanderson
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Mary Lou For Mayor! I don’t know this woman beyond what I read in the Voice but I think it’s a shame she isn’t running for mayor. I think she is very well grounded, sensible, obviously articulate and has a real grasp of the issue that concern me as a citizen slash taxpayer. I can’t help but wonder why she isn’t running for anything because I have no doubt she’d be a better mayor than either of the present candidates.

Peter Jacobs

We agree with Peter’s assessment of Mary Lou Ambrogio, and join him in wishing she were running for some elected municipal office. She is exactly the kind of clear-thinking, well-spoken individual we need. There is still time to register. Perhaps if enough people urged her to run……….

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THE VIEW FROM SARNIA

I enjoy reading the Voice of London every week. It’s great when people are criticising the mayor and it’s not me!

Mike Bradley

Mike is, of course, the mayor of Sarnia and an old friend of the Publisher. He has held the office since 1988 and after Mississauga’s Hazel McCallion is the longest-serving mayor in Ontario.