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As announced by the PM, Canadians are to receive a break in the GST for a couple of months and maybe a cash gift. It appears that the PM does not understand that the promoted savings amount to an insignificant gesture. Along with the cash, it is an attempt to buy votes in case there is an early election.
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Unfortunately for the Liberals, they have lost the trust of voters already and no amount of bribery will save them. Assuming the Conservatives win the next election, we will not be any better off. Listening to the Conservatives, I do not believe that they have a coherent plan. Pushing the “Axe the Tax” slogan only shows that their plans are shortsighted.
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Erwin Rauscher, Edmonton
Columnist touts profit at any cost
David Staples, without presenting evidence, blames AIMCo’s incorporation of environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment considerations for its recent underperformance. He goes further to state that ESG should never be factored into investing decisions.
By this logical and ethical reasoning, Mr. Staples would have no reason to complain should one day a company that has bribed government officials flare gas next to his house or if another company has hired one of his grandchildren to work for unlivable wages in dangerous conditions. So long as investors are profiting, human suffering, corporate corruption and irreversible damage to the environment that we depend on is actually commendable.
Not surprisingly, he does not get into the AIMCo overhaul’s obvious alignment with Premier Smith’s intentions of establishing an Alberta pension plan, where politicized investments will be the norm.
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Bob Adamson, Edmonton
Unlimited trapping plan disastrous
I am stunned and angry that Alberta Forestry Minister Todd Loewen is now revealing that he is an expert on gathering data on endangered species by trapping animals. He stated that harvesting animals like wolverines, lynx, river otters and fishers is the best way to get more data on how many there are. Understand that both words, trapping and harvesting, mean to kill. Open season would allow the registered 1,600 trappers to harvest these said animals on the hit list. He thinks — thinks, not knows — it will take a year or two to gather the data they need.
Instead of getting advice from wildlife experts like conservationist Ruiping Luo, with the Alberta Wilderness Association, or Matt Scrafford, a wildlife scientist with Wildlife Conservation Society Canada, Loewen just makes a critical decision that puts wildlife on the block without any obvious understanding of the damage he’s creating for the species he’s targeted. These types of ministers must be held accountable. Loewen is making a decision that will ultimately be detrimental to their survival – as their numbers are already critical.
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This is unbelievable; how can we citizens stop this massacre before it’s too late?
L.G. Anderson, Spruce Grove
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