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LETTER: Tariffs should take back seat to healthcare in Ontario election

Leave tariff talk to feds, and start fulfilling your mandate, says letter writer to Ford-led PCs
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Then-premier Doug Ford gives a speech at the Association of Municipalities of Ontario conference on Aug. 19, 2024.

CollingwoodToday 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 was sent in response to a previous letter entitled Make election about Ford's tenure, not his tariff talk

I want to thank Mr. Howell for his eloquent letter.

While Mr. Ford has been destroying the Greenbelt, building unneeded roads and massacring the Science Centre along with the Ontario Place property, people are starving, squeezed out of their homes, and having a risible time with healthcare. (I sliced my thumb to the bone, destroyed ligaments and nerves, and was told by my doctor’s receptionist that I could be fitted in in three months.)

I am currently in Costa Rica where my partner had a terrible fall, face planting into gravel.

The doctor in our small town came into his clinic on a Sunday, specifically to drain a wound and administer antibiotics through IV, which is what you do as a doctor if you haven’t been exhausted to the very core of your being.

Yes, Mr Ford, don’t worry your loquacious face over tariffs. Leave that to the feds, and start fulfilling your mandate.

Jane Crist
Collingwood, Ont.