Letters: No mystery to root cause of violent antisemitism in Canada

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Now, ironically, the courts have magically created protected property rights for the homeless — who unlike the Indigenous, have no legal right, claim or interest in land — that trump the registered interests and property rights of the public.

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It is enough to make a grown real estate lawyer cry.

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Morris Sosnovitch (Retired Certified Real Estate Law Specialist), Toronto

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Canadian citizens should be top priority for health care

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This costly virtue-signalling scam is taking place during a nationwide health-care crisis with an estimated 5.9 million Canadians being without a family doctor. The 74,000 failed refugee claimants still here need to be deported immediately, not given health care that many Canadians are unable to receive.

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It’s been estimated there could be as many as 500,000 undocumented people living illegally in Canada who should be deported but the Carney government appears to be either unwilling or unable to do that. To compound the problem, the federal government’s Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Department last fall advertised public health care to those contemplating moving here.

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Compassion is good but it must be coupled with common sense.

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Larry Comeau, Ottawa

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Make airports safe for all

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At an arrivals hall at Toronto Pearson International Airport, travellers have no choice but to walk through a narrow space after clearing customs.

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In a video taken on May 24, a loud crowd of protesters were shown greeting returning flotilla activists in that confined space. As a kippa-wearing Jewish man in a wheelchair emerged from customs, the crowd pointed and laughed at him while chanting “Zionism is terrorism! Free Palestine!”

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This was not ordinary protest. It was the targeted harassment of a vulnerable passenger who could not easily avoid the situation. Allowing this inside the terminal was a serious failure by the Greater Toronto Airports Authority (GTAA).

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Airports should be safe gateways for everyone. The GTAA must explain how this was permitted and what steps will be taken in the future to protect passengers, especially those dealing with mobility issues.

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Laurence Price, Thornhill, Ont.

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Ditch the Pathways Project

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Leave it to Joe Oliver to tell it like it is. His years in the fondly remembered Harper government, first as natural resources minister and then as finance minister, surely give him the credibility to express his views on the Pathways Project, which he refers to as a “boondoggle.” This carbon capture and storage (CCS) network, proposed by the six largest oilsands companies and backed our federal Liberal government, will purportedly remove upstream greenhouse gas emissions and transport them via pipeline to an underground storage facility near Cold Lake, Alta. This at an estimated cost of $16- $24-billion to the Canadian taxpayer. Oliver implies that Alberta Premier Danielle Smith had to agree to get the feds on side. The buyers of our oil will not pay for this unwarranted expense.

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Oliver also refers to a recent opinion piece by former Liberal MP Martha Hall Findlay, current chair of Calgary’s School of Public Policy. Having earlier supported this technology she is now very much opposed. She states that Canada produces a mere 1.3 per cent of global GHG emissions and the Pathways first phase would likely reduce global emissions by less than 0.02 per cent.

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Mr. Oliver’s final assessment: “Abandoning Pathways would help Canada catch up with the rest of the world. Too bad it won’t happen under Carney’s leadership!”

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Harry K. Hocquard, King, Ont.

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