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by Guest Wed 06 Jul 2016, 15:08
Tradition and honour part of being Canadian.
July 06, 2016
Kitchener Post
I believe that if enough people write letters to their elected representatives, ensuring they copy the media, MPs tend to look at it more.
Sadly, it seems that there is an agenda going on right now that has nothing to do with the wishes of the people, the voters, and they are not pleased. Too many promises are being broken and there’s a failure to realize that the billions being spent on humanitarian aid comes from the voters’ pockets, not government coffers.
People are no longer out of touch with things and want transparent accountability. If they can allocate over a billion on refugees (and the Canadian taxpayer is footing the bill), it behoves them to realize this and maybe spend some of our money on us here at home.
None of the expenditures would be possible without “we the people” and us the voters’ tax dollars to support the rampant spending going on right now.
What irks me is that since even before Canada was a nation, starting with the first four provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec and Ontario in 1867, Canadians were fighting to defend this nation in the first of the Fenian Raids, and even before that.
I tire of the lip-service of the past governments who enjoy the freedoms and democracy that literally thousands and thousands of Canadians died for. Thousands of veterans were left permanently injured, maimed, shattered and battered and killed so we remain free.
But, when our troops, now veterans have done all this for their government, the best we can do is make it a greater hardship to be treated with honour and dignity and it begs the question, why? We can peel off a few thousand millions (from the taxpayers wad) to ensure refugees get the very best for freedom and humanitarian care, but try applying humanitarian care to our own! Canadians who have done wonderful things, Canadians who have volunteered to serve their nation are stonewalled. Again, why?
The government has no problem taking their taxes and using them helter-skelter for others, but is it a matter of convenience the government forgets whose money they are spending? We can jump at looking after 25,000 refugees, but to care for our Canadian veterans, how could we?
Next year will be our nation’s 150th anniversary and we have a lot to be grateful for, but one constant in all of this is the fact that had it not been for our veterans, perhaps the national language would be of a German persuasion.
Why is it so difficult to treat our veterans with dignity and humanitarian respect? In lieu of doing the right and honourable thing there’s nightmarish bureaucracy and hardships in place to delay, demean, disregard and deny the basic fundamental care for veterans while doling out billions for others.
The Conservatives took a $1.2 billion veterans budget and paid down the national debt on the backs of veterans and at the past election, great promises were made to care for our veterans who, yet again, are being stymied at every turn for care. Can we please stop the insanity?
Canada’s 150th anniversary is an incredible accomplishment and our heritage should be celebrated with the traditions we have established, as in the creation of a Canada 150-medal to mark this prestigious occasion and do it up right by creating the equivalent to one per cent of the population or about 360,000 medals.
Our veterans, who for the past seven decades have all volunteered to serve, should be a part of great celebrations in 2017 and the recent presentation in the House of Commons by MP Bill Casey calling for the reestablishment of the Canadian Military Volunteer Service Medal should play an integral part of celebrating our history. For much of it is based on the accomplishments of our veterans.
I know this is a bit of a vent, typed quickly and done more in frustration than anything else, but when it comes to our veterans and national heritage, sometimes you just have to get a few things off your chest, or in the case of veterans, off their backs.
Dave Palmer
Nepean, ON
http://www.kitchenerpost.ca/opinion-story/6754960-letter-tradition-and-honour-part-of-being-canadian/
July 06, 2016
Kitchener Post
I believe that if enough people write letters to their elected representatives, ensuring they copy the media, MPs tend to look at it more.
Sadly, it seems that there is an agenda going on right now that has nothing to do with the wishes of the people, the voters, and they are not pleased. Too many promises are being broken and there’s a failure to realize that the billions being spent on humanitarian aid comes from the voters’ pockets, not government coffers.
People are no longer out of touch with things and want transparent accountability. If they can allocate over a billion on refugees (and the Canadian taxpayer is footing the bill), it behoves them to realize this and maybe spend some of our money on us here at home.
None of the expenditures would be possible without “we the people” and us the voters’ tax dollars to support the rampant spending going on right now.
What irks me is that since even before Canada was a nation, starting with the first four provinces of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Quebec and Ontario in 1867, Canadians were fighting to defend this nation in the first of the Fenian Raids, and even before that.
I tire of the lip-service of the past governments who enjoy the freedoms and democracy that literally thousands and thousands of Canadians died for. Thousands of veterans were left permanently injured, maimed, shattered and battered and killed so we remain free.
But, when our troops, now veterans have done all this for their government, the best we can do is make it a greater hardship to be treated with honour and dignity and it begs the question, why? We can peel off a few thousand millions (from the taxpayers wad) to ensure refugees get the very best for freedom and humanitarian care, but try applying humanitarian care to our own! Canadians who have done wonderful things, Canadians who have volunteered to serve their nation are stonewalled. Again, why?
The government has no problem taking their taxes and using them helter-skelter for others, but is it a matter of convenience the government forgets whose money they are spending? We can jump at looking after 25,000 refugees, but to care for our Canadian veterans, how could we?
Next year will be our nation’s 150th anniversary and we have a lot to be grateful for, but one constant in all of this is the fact that had it not been for our veterans, perhaps the national language would be of a German persuasion.
Why is it so difficult to treat our veterans with dignity and humanitarian respect? In lieu of doing the right and honourable thing there’s nightmarish bureaucracy and hardships in place to delay, demean, disregard and deny the basic fundamental care for veterans while doling out billions for others.
The Conservatives took a $1.2 billion veterans budget and paid down the national debt on the backs of veterans and at the past election, great promises were made to care for our veterans who, yet again, are being stymied at every turn for care. Can we please stop the insanity?
Canada’s 150th anniversary is an incredible accomplishment and our heritage should be celebrated with the traditions we have established, as in the creation of a Canada 150-medal to mark this prestigious occasion and do it up right by creating the equivalent to one per cent of the population or about 360,000 medals.
Our veterans, who for the past seven decades have all volunteered to serve, should be a part of great celebrations in 2017 and the recent presentation in the House of Commons by MP Bill Casey calling for the reestablishment of the Canadian Military Volunteer Service Medal should play an integral part of celebrating our history. For much of it is based on the accomplishments of our veterans.
I know this is a bit of a vent, typed quickly and done more in frustration than anything else, but when it comes to our veterans and national heritage, sometimes you just have to get a few things off your chest, or in the case of veterans, off their backs.
Dave Palmer
Nepean, ON
http://www.kitchenerpost.ca/opinion-story/6754960-letter-tradition-and-honour-part-of-being-canadian/
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