OrilliaMatters welcomes letters to the editor at [email protected] or via the website. Please include your full name, daytime phone number and address (for verification of authorship, not publication). The following letter is in response to a letter about homelessness, published Nov. 15.
Rick Lockman got one thing right about homelessness and one thing only: Government policies are 100 per cent responsible.
Closing safe injection sites contributes to homelessness? No. They contribute to drug addiction flourishing as the taxpayer-paid-for contraband is sold to customers on the street for 10 bucks a pop. It destroys families, creates a need for more police/emergency services and, yes, homelessness.
Decades now of green energy extremism have added up to $55,000 per new home built in some parts of the country. They, along with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s middle-class-destroying carbon tax, have made life unaffordable for Canadians and contributed to our homelessness crisis. Affordable electronics from Asia is not the culprit. Insane inflationary domestic policy has eroded Canadian wages and made housing unaffordable.
However, Rick Lockman totally ignored the 800-pound gorilla in the room. The No. 1 contributing factor causing Canada’s housing shortage crisis is unsustainable immigration levels by the totally irresponsible Trudeau regime. Think about it for a second. Letting in millions of people before we have shelter available for them. What could possibly go wrong with that?
Tim Szukalski
Edmonton
