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Lantz should stick to urgent issues

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Including Dennis King, how many Tory premiers does it take to govern P.E.I.?

Now Rob Lantz and new minister Sidney MacEwen actually think they can change the federal fishing licence rules to suit themselves. Lantz should stick to the approximately $400 million in debt and approximately 30,000 Islanders waiting for a doctor.

In Olympic sports, who did Wayne Gretzky cheer for, the U.S. or Canada?

Every bit as bad for Canada

Recent comments and cartoons show Pierre Poilievre as a weakened leader. I think he is well rid of those who have ratted on his party. If they can’t see that Carney is a fake, every bit as bad for Canada as Trudeau, then the Conservatives are well rid of them.

Despite fine sounding intentions, after a year of Carney, there is not a single pipeline being built, not a shovel in the ground. All he can do is pander to the Chinese. We should be the wealthiest country in the world, with a resource A/C in the blue that pays for our social services like Norway.

No wonder Trump is fed up with us. We are well on the road to a brand of socialism that is perilously close to communism. Most of us are asleep at the wheel. Wake up.

Cut civil service to help finances

I wonder if our MLAs do actually run the government or is it the civil service? MLAs come and go but the civil service remains in place. Who advises a new MLA when that new green person arrives in government? Who decides how the government cuts costs?

Does government decide to reduce the top heavy civil service? Not too likely, it probably becomes a stalemate, don’t try to cut the civil service and we won’t recommend cutting MLA salaries or numbers. So everything just continues, civil service feels comfortable and MLAs don’t rock the boat. As long as this continues nothing is going to change, the Island debts will continue to rise, and services go down.

This is what is happening with health care. We have a top-heavy executive management group with big salaries and benefits. We have frontline workers  — doctors, nurses, staff — fighting to receive a fair salary and benefits. These are the people actually doing the work, while the executives sit in their posh offices looking important.

What should be done to change the system? Perhaps give civil service members short-term contracts, maybe four to six years. This way no civil servants would start to feel indispensable. No civil servants would hold so much power, and have MLAs deferring to them. No more attitude of, we know best, you need to take our advice.

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I believe we all know the civil service is mostly all patronage appointments. Not necessarily the best persons for the job. In this present debt crisis, the government needs to cut expenses. To do that they need to be ruthless, cut many government jobs, executive positions, and do we really need 27 MLAs. Do we need four federal MPs?

We are a small province with a small population. If we start counting the costs of all the municipal governments, the many boards and panels, it adds up. Let’s not forget the out-of-province costs of large firms doing studies for us. We have enough smart Islanders to do the job.

To cut the costly waste, cut the unneeded studies, panels and policies. Let the government actually govern for the province and Islanders. This what I believe, but I doubt it will happen, at least not in my lifetime.

Abram-Village, P.E.I.

Can we trust government with land trust?

I have read in the Island Farmer that the P.E.I. government will move in the spring to create a provincial farm land trust.

This is one of many governments since I was a kid that won’t/can’t enforce the Land Protection Act and they think they can manage a land trust?

I asked the agriculture minister for a copy of the Brendel report and was told no. I asked why and was told one word: Ethics. That was the only answer given … I’m still scratching my head about that.

This land trust BS is just to make it look like the current ship of fools might have a clue. They don’t.

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