Dear Editor:
All the Doug Ford critics are right in some respects: not enough homes, shortage of doctors and nurses, education in free fall, too many people chasing too few jobs.
And why are there too many people? Could it be because it was announced to the world that Canada’s doors were wide open? That was Justin Trudeau who made that statement and opened the gates, not Doug Ford!
I have just returned from a trip to the U.K. where things are dire. The economy in on a downward spiral, thanks in part to the huge numbers of illegal immigrants, arriving daily, and being put up in hotels and small villages, all at tax payers expense. Serious crime is rampant not just in the U.K. but across the whole of Europe.
When I emigrated to Canada in 1973 there was a strict point system you had to pass in order to gain acceptance and anyone with a criminal background was automatically refused. Perhaps we need to go back to that system.
For the sake of our children and grandchildren, look for common sense in whoever you vote for, not pie-in-the-sky policies.
Jeanette Clarke,
Fergus