Justin Trudeau’s punch strains are hurting allies — and us

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‘All of the PM has managed to do is transition enterprise away from Canada’

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Re: NP View: Trudeau’s ‘simply transition’ only a large authorities plan to mop up his personal mess, Editorial, Jan. 21

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It seems Justin Trudeau is maintaining his boxing expertise. Each time the chief of one other nation meets with him to debate getting oil or
pure gasoline/LNG from Alberta (it could be completely different if Quebec have been the provider), they’re met with a verbal punch within the type of a pulpit
lecture on how they need to be transitioning away from fossil fuels, as Trudeau is forcing Canadians to do.

All of the prime minister has managed to take action far, is transition enterprise and billions of {dollars} in earnings away from Canada to different international locations. Working example is the 15-year multibillion-dollar contract Germany signed with Qatar after Trudeau rejected Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s acknowledged need for Canada to be Germany’s “associate of selection” for LNG imports. Now Trudeau has achieved the identical factor to Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio, with a sanctimonious lecture on decarbonizing their economic system.

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All I can suppose is that Trudeau expects his fixed pandering to the UN’s surroundings program will repay in a brand new job sooner or later.

Tony Borbely, Calgary

Revisiting Israeli historical past

Re: Nakba not talked about, Letter to the editor, Jan. 22; and From its start, Israel has confronted double requirements and been wrongly maligned, Allan Levine, Jan. 16

Michael Bueckert raises an enchanting distinction between the 75-year historic paths of the thriving pluralistic democracy of Israel and that of Palestinian Arabs. In 1947-1950, the 2 had close to similar challenges, however responded very in a different way. The 1947 United Nations Partition Plan provided every their very own state, a possibility seized by Israel however rejected by Arab management (a rejection repeated through the Oslo Accords).

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Secondly, regardless of close to similar numbers of refugees, the 650,000 Jews displaced from their houses in Arab international locations have been handled beneath United Nations Excessive Fee on Refugees (UNHCR) guidelines, and resettled as residents of their new international locations (many in Israel). Palestinian Arab refugees have been handled uniquely based on United Nations Reduction and Works Company (UNRWA) guidelines, conserving them as perpetual non-citizens, scattered throughout the Center East and past.

One wonders what might need been achieved with wiser management and defunding of the UNRWA.

Harold Reiter, Thornhill, Ont.

The vast majority of Arab civilians dwelling within the partitioned state weren’t expelled by “Zionist navy forces” however have been informed to go away by the Arab international locations getting ready to assault Israel, with the promise that they might return as soon as all the Jews had been killed and the land claimed by the Arabs. Some have been essentially eliminated by Israeli forces as they have been offering help to the invading Arab armies and likewise endeavor assaults of their very own in opposition to Israeli forces.

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Allan Garber, Maple, Ont.

Well being-care alarmists spinning Ontario reforms

Re: Doug Ford brings solely modest health-care reforms and the left goes berserk anyway, Jesse Kline, Jan. 18

There was a whole lot of political spin on the rollout of built-in ambulatory clinics, and the alarmists have asserted this privatization to be the start of two-tiered well being care. A two-tiered health-care system is what we are not looking for and can be in contravention of the Canada Well being Act. The modifications coming leverage non-public funds to bolster the well being system infrastructure and never the care offered. I imagine a greater technique to perceive these modifications can be to think about it an instance of a Public-Personal Partnership (P3), much like the Toronto-area Scarborough Subway Extension or the Gordie Howe Worldwide Bridge in Windsor, Ont., however on a minute scale.

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Albert Ng MD, Windsor, Ont.

‘Tragedies can happen when playing overtakes a weak thoughts’

Re: In defence of authorized sports activities betting, Colby Cosh, Jan. 22

You’re fortunate to have a author reminiscent of Colby Cosh in your steady as a result of he makes legitimate factors in regards to the the reason why playing on sports activities is a sound pastime.

Sadly he has clearly by no means witnessed the tragedies that may happen when playing has overtaken a weak thoughts. And imagine me after I say that on-line playing is presenting a golden alternative for the weak minds to develop past comprehension. After I hear a TSN sportscaster saying one thing alongside the strains that FanDuel has the percentages so that you can contemplate whether or not Bianca Andreescu can outpace an opponent, then I need to mute the sound.

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There are in all probability no figures to show that playing can result in psychological sickness however we do know that playing dependancy could also be extra actual than anybody appreciates. And for BellMedia to encourage all of the FanDuel promoting on its channels whereas selling its Let’s Discuss marketing campaign to fight psychological sickness, then the world has gone a little bit extra insane.

John Dawe, Toronto

Jewish state wants internationally acknowledged borders

Re: Israeli court docket reforms are usually not a risk to democracy, however will set a nasty precedent, André Pratte, Jan. 15

The inchoate nature of the Israeli structure is probably not unrelated to its lack of internationally acknowledged territorial borders.

And the ascendancy of the proper is actually not unrelated to the present safety issues of the Israeli individuals, who, within the absence of peace, must accept peace of thoughts, one thing they didn’t have beneath the earlier left-leaning authorities.

Judicial overview will, in my opinion, stay precarious till Israel, a sovereign nation, has absolutely outlined, internationally acknowledged borders and a full-fledged structure. For many who see a chicken-or-egg argument right here, I’d merely say: some rooster, some egg.

Howard Greenfield, Montreal

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