Re “Palliative care is still woefully lacking in Canada” (Opinion, May 2): In recent years I have had the honour of shepherding four family elders through various end-of-life situations while in palliative care. There would be issues with the number of magazines an individual could have, but that could be worked on. Any gun that has higher capacity than that is only designed to kill people, lots of people.
I propose a law that has serious consequences for anyone in possession of a magazine that holds more than five rounds. Re “Justin Trudeau not welcome at memorials after reneging on promises, gun-control group says” (May 3): For some unfathomable reason, the federal government has reneged on the promise to ban assault weapons.
Is there any greater friend of the tyrant and the demagogue than a population that is apathetic? I doubt this is just a generational issue. About 95 per cent of my class had never heard of the Chinese interference story and when I explained it, they yawned. What if the populace is no longer interested in proper news articles and editorials – regardless of their objectivity and balance? Who actually reads newspapers any more? I teach at university and my casual polls indicate very few. My only comment is to say the situation is actually worse. Re “On Press Freedom Day, imagine a world without journalism” (Editorial, May 3): This editorial on journalism was quite gloomy. While I appreciate the eagerness of the Opposition and certain media to create another “scandal” surrounding the Prime Minister, I’m puzzled by one thing: If Michael Chong and his family in Hong Kong were being intimidated by agents of China, wouldn’t he have been the first to know of it? Those responsible for security should get answers from CSIS, but others should stop speculating in the dark. We do not know what evidence CSIS had on the threat, whether it was considered credible at the time, whether the evidence was too minimal to form a conclusion, or whether they judged correctly that the threat was unlikely to lead to any action. The threat was detected two years ago and nothing seems to have actually happened. In the case of an alleged threat identified by the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) against Conservative member of Parliament Michael Chong and his family, we have the benefit of hindsight.
Re “Trudeau blames CSIS for not informing MP Chong about being target of China” (May 4): It is always difficult to judge the credibility of a threat in real time.
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