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Carbon tax and food

Re: With food prices rising, can we work on quality? (Aug. 31)

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Columnist Lise Ravary cites reasons for a 4.5 per cent to 6.5 per cent price increase for food in 2021 as being supply-chain shortages, climate change-driven weather out west, border closings, changes in consumer behavior due to underemployment, rising oil prices and a weak dollar.

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Nowhere in her musings does she mention the carbon tax and its effect on fuel prices, heating costs for farmers during winter to keep their livestock from freezing and the costs added to farmers who need to dry their grain prior to shipment.

Indeed, staying fed and healthy will be challenging if we continue to needlessly tax our carbon emissions. Our obsession on taxation as a way to secure our future is obscene.

On the other hand, I kinda like turnip. Lard, not so much.

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Garry Goold
Brantford

Love all your neighbours

Love thy neighbour, we’re told. Who is your neighbour, anyway?

Are they the people who live beside you or across the street?

The truth is we are all neighbours, even with those who live downtown.

For some time now, the people who wander our city’s core have laid heavy on my heart. I feel a brokenness inside for these people who desperately need loving neighbours.  I know sometimes we can feel afraid of the unknown but the truth is they are deeply hurting human beings.

All neighbours matter. It’s OK to smile, to listen, to care.

Imagine sitting in the middle of the roadway holding a sign saying: “I’m homeless.”  I have often thought: “Are you really in need?” The reality is no one would choose to humiliate themselves unless they needed too.

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I overheard a woman asking a homeless man: “Why don’t you just get a job?”

I walked up to that same man and told him I understand that it’s hard to think about getting a job when you don’t know where you will sleep or eat that day. I gave him a gift card that was given to me. He just looked at me and said a quiet “thank you.”

Let’s offer our support to the people who need us most.

If you feel loved, you also feel hope. Let’s stop putting a bandage on a broken-hearted population. Look at the heart not homelessness.

Sandra Bridgman
Brantford

O’Toole lacking

Conservative leader Erin O’Toole, with an abundance of medical advice and information, can’t bring himself to commit to the difficult decision of vaccine mandates.

So, the almost 75 per cent (and growing) of Canadians who have done our part can count on O’Toole to allow us to be held hostage by the minority of anti-vaxxers and conspiracy believers.

When it comes to difficult decisions, what can we count on O’Toole to do?

John Reid,
Forest, Ont.

Diverting attention

Calling an election that most Canadians do not want for no apparent reason (other than his desperation to gain a majority) during a pandemic is unconscionable and irresponsible.

The election has diverted the attention of our elected politicians from dealing effectively with the crisis in Afghanistan.

Shame on Justin Trudeau for putting himself ahead of a nation of desperate people.

Barbara Hollingworth,
Goderich, Ont.

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