Letters Tuesday February 25, 2025: 'Trudeau's train isn't for the people, it's for him.'

MORE HIGH-SPEED SPENDING Re: Lame-duck PM can’t get off Liberal spending train, Lorne Gunter column, Feb. 23 So here is yet another expense that’s going to cost Canadians billions of tax dollars while our health care, education and military continue to crumble. The Liberals refuse to deal with issues they themselves have caused — massive debt, uncontrolled borders and lack of immigration/refugee oversight — but, hey, let’s make sure someone can get on a high-speed train to visit Quebec City.

Cadence (the consortium selected to build the line between Toronto and Quebec City) is supposedly a consortium of “world-renowned companies”; SNC-Lavalin is one of them, though now known by another name, AtkinsRealis. Are the provinces involved going to have to pony up funding as well? Electric trains in Canadian winters ..



. what could possibly go wrong? SANDY JOHNSTON (What could go wrong is we elect another Liberal government to keep spending like drunken sailors.) $3.

9B FOR A TRAIN? Re: Lame-duck PM can’t get off Liberal spending train, Lorne Gunter column, Feb. 23 Mr. Trudeau, why would we need a high-speed train at $3.

9 billion (the amount Canada is to provide over six years for co-development) when we are having a hard time just paying rent and food? You act like everything is fine today. No doctors for people, you legalize drugs and that situation is now out of control. Prime Minister, you should not take Sussex Drive to work, but instead try King Edward Avenue and see what that drug situation has done to people.

You act like it’s OK, but it’s not. Homeless people everywhere and $3.9 billion for a train.

Really? You should look straight ahead and stop turning away from things people need. MARK DENNY (Turning a blind eye is a life-long skill of Trudeau’s.) IN HIS NAME Re “Great One a great Canadian who deserves our respect” (Bobby Orr, Feb.

23): I have great respect for how Wayne Gretzky (and Bobby Orr) played hockey. I don’t care who they vote for as I don’t value their opinion on politics. I agree with Orr that much of the criticism of Gretzky is hateful but, respectfully, some of it is earned.

Gretzky allowed his name to be used to disrespect his country without publicly objecting. Speaking out to defend a nation that has celebrated you is a reasonable ask of an ‘honorary’ representative. We deserve better.

Scott Faulconbridge (Perhaps he should have said something, but will always be the ‘Great One’).