Letters to the Editor, June 20, 2026

Published Jun 20, 2026  •  Last updated 16 minutes ago  •  1 minute read

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CBC IS A WASTE OF MONEY
If CBC thinks they don’t have much of a market share now, wait until next year with no HNIC. Fire Ron MacLean and defund the CBC, biggest waste of taxpayer money in all of Canada.

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David Johnston
Kingston, Ont.

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(Over a billion a year — for what?)

QUESTION OF SEPARATION
Re: “Danielle Smith started a fire and Alberta — and Canada — will suffer for it” (Warren Kinsella, May 27): While I do agree with Warren and Karl Belanger that Smith has opened up a messy can of worms by advocating for the referendum to proceed, my take is a little more pragmatic. I believe Smith is banking on two things. Firstly, after the inevitable loss, Smith can say to the separatists that Albertans have spoken. The separatists certainly won’t like a loss and given Quebec’s example, probably won’t stop advocating for separation, but at least she can argue they had their chance. Secondly, I feel that if Smith deep-sixes the referendum, it could lead to a split in the UCP, with a separatist faction forming a new right-wing party, and we all know what happened at the federal level. This is a golden opportunity for Mark Carney to throw cold water on the separatist movement by rapidly getting pipelines and port facilities built to transport Alberta’s ethical oil and natural gas to international markets. In a related story, does anyone want to lay any bets on what will happen first: Carney allowing pipelines to get built, preferably by the private sector, or the Leafs winning the Cup? Yeah, that’s a tough one!

Bruce Forsyth
Barrie

(Your pragmatic assessment is likely correct. Premier Smith is in a near impossible situation and is managing it)

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