Letters, Sept. 28: Guidelines meant to be damaged

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Re: Metropolis can do higher on housing disaster; Letter, Sept. 22

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No lodging, fixating on inflexible guidelines, making the method the enemy of progress – it’s an unlucky character trait, and one thing no good councillor or mayor can retain. Good councillors know that you would be able to by no means be rigid. Guidelines are supposed to promote good outcomes, not hinder them. Because the saying goes, “guidelines are for the obedience of fools and the steering of sensible males.”

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It’s wonderful what number of guidelines we fill our lives with that merely don’t make issues higher, however sluggish us down and deprive us of flexibility and selection (particularly alternative). These drag us down. The individuals who implement them are sometimes petty tyrants — disillusioned with their lot in life and clinging to the small bits that give them energy and goal. The entire enterprise strikes me as unhappy.

Butch Skulsky, Calgary

Unicorns and rainbows

I can’t be the one citizen who thinks the UCP is making an attempt to promote me a unicorn with 334 billion horns. How unserious. And to now take this present on the highway as if it was a stable, reputable plan. Embarrassing!

Might we please get again to the enterprise of serving to Albertans? A proposed resolution to electrical energy prices, insurance coverage prices,

and housing prices? Something however this nonsense

Isabelle Bonneau, Calgary

Different provinces received’t hand over half the pension fund

The Alberta premier’s newest try to hide her personal authorities’s incompetence by selecting one other struggle with Ottawa received’t fly. Making an attempt to drag out of the CPP will additional isolate Alberta’s fame throughout the Canadian Confederation.

Different provinces won’t be fooled into giving up half of the overall pension out there to the ‘grasping’ Alberta our premier is portraying. “Idiot me as soon as, disgrace on you. Idiot me twice, disgrace on me.”

Harry B. Chase, Calgary 

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Folks afraid of change

Re: Alberta NDP launches personal APP session; MLA says UCP survey on pension reform deceptively presents plan as a carried out deal, Sept. 26

I’m a senior receiving each CPP and OAS. I’m very excited by listening to and studying extra in regards to the UCP’s concept. All of us must be.

Quebec by no means signed onto the CPP, as a substitute selecting to implement their very own pension plan and it seems to achieve success, so why not the opposite provinces? 

There isn’t a denying the amount of cash Albertans have contributed to the CPP so leaving it will be unwelcome for the NDP/Liberal authorities. 

From what I’ve learn to this point the UCP is taking their time getting all the data earlier than letting Albertans determine, not the UCP authorities. If Quebec can do it, why can’t we?

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