High-speed internet remains elusive
I write this letter out of frustration. We live in DeSable, P.E.I. The only high-speed internet we can get is BellAliant. It is not high speed and in most incidences, it is very low speed.
We have been promised several times that we would be able to get the new high speed from Xplornet. Putting up new towers, they tell us. They have been here twice and their towers can’t be picked up.
I am at the point now of total frustration. If the P.E.I. government is paying to hook every Islander to high speed, why are we left in the dark and given no options? What gives?
Barbara F. Joslin,
DeSable Canada needs the real jobs it provides.
A competent federal agriculture minister would not trade off one agriculture sector against another one. I have been told by beef and hog farmers that the expected trade gains are not going to be worth what was given away. They don’t think there will be any benefit to them. They will just be expected to do more for less money. They do not want to see our dairy system eroded. It’s a great system and we all know it out in the field.
So basically, your trade deals have given away thousands of dairy cows and the jobs that come with it — for a handful of magic beans.
Please stop giving away our hard-earned industry,
Ranald MacFarlane, Fernwood continue their “emissions as usual” policy. They are pleased with the status quo of $4 trillion per year in worldwide subsidies for fossil fuels, which allow them to operate with disregard for any climate-destructive aspects of their activities, pushing the true costs off onto society at large.
Looking at the board’s predictions of price increases (and falling wages? Where’d that come from?), notice that except for those which are tied directly to fossil fuel activities, the predicted increases are a cumulative fraction of a per cent over the next seven years.
If there are economists who can accurately predict sub-per cent price changes seven years in the future they would not be working for a business lobby. They would be incredibly wealthy hedge fund managers.
Beyond the completely specious nature of the numbers, the underlying message is that they do not intend to alter their operations even by a fraction of a percent to reduce their emissions, but intend to “keep on keepin’ on,” passing the entire cost to their customers.
And incidentally, printing nonsense in a large colour table doesn’t make it any less false. Harry Smith,
Bonshaw