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Letters: Syrian refugees, Christy Clark, ISIL, Allan Schoenborn, Charles Manson, ICBC rates

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Premier should help those in need in B.C. before refugees

I had to turn off the television, seeing Premier Christy Clark squeezing out tears for the tragedy of the month. Yes, the Syrian refugee crisis is sad but Clark should save her tears for the tragedies unfolding in B.C.

The drug crisis, the mental-illness crisis, the unavailability of resources to take care of the people we already have living here in B.C., even just in Vancouver. We are losing great people unnecessarily to overdoses, we have mental-health clients doing unimaginable things to themselves and others because we do not have the resources to help them control their symptoms.

Clark should do something about the crises that unfold every day here in B.C. first.

Barb Collin, Vancouver

Stop blubbering

Oh, stop sobbing, Premier Christy Clark. No one is buying it. If you really want to do something for refugees, restore all the funding for English as a Second Language and for schools, hospitals, and social services and the refugees we welcome ]will do fine.

The Liberals have waged war on the poor, the disadvantaged, the new arrivals and anyone who is not making a six-figure salary for more than a decade. Clark’s tears fall on parched ground.

Gregory Middleton, Victoria

Middle Easterns must kill ISIL

Countries in the Middle East combined have more than four million military personal. ISIL has around 40,000 to 50,000.

If those nations can’t get their collective act together, quit squabbling among themselves and fight ISIL, then maybe letter-writer Al Reimer can explain to me why we should send our men and women over there to be shot at and killed for countries that seem to spend more time with their military running in reverse than forward. Many of the refugees look like fit, healthy young men who are running away.

It’s time for the people of the Middle East to stand up and win the war over ISIL.

Barry Rigler, Surrey

Nicer Manson photo, too

I have to agree with Gerhart Pahl’s letter criticizing the photo in The Province of child killer Allan Schoenborn. Perhaps a photo of him smiling for the camera in a nice flower garden, maybe? After all, he only methodically butchered his own children in cold blood and is now trying to show his remorse by taking a cooking class.

By the way, the photo you run of Charles Manson with the Swastika carved on his forehead should be updated to something more lighthearted as well.

Tom Gray, Delta

Ontario rates are highest

I don’t know where letter-writer Joe Sawchuk gets his facts from regarding auto insurance rates, but it would appear to me that he’s not even close to reality.

The province of Ontario, the darling of private insurance, is the most expensive place to buy auto insurance.

If B.C. and Saskatchewan public insurance in so bad, why don’t the current non-NDP governments bring back private insurance and remove public insurance?

Sawchuk should check his facts.

Gord Larkin, Burnaby

 

The editorial pages editor is Gordon Clark, who can be reached at gclark@theprovince.com. Letters to the editor can be sent to provletters@theprovince.com.



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