Letters to The Province, June 19, 2018: What kind of fool would sign a blank cheque to FIFA?

B.C. Place Stadium in Vancouver hosted matches for the FIFA Women's World Cup in 2015 but won't be included among the Canadian venues for the men's 2026 World Cup. Darryl Dyck / THE CANADIAN PRESS

FIFA World Cup soccer is coming to Canada. How much is it going to cost us? Millions? Billions? Trillions? Nobody knows!

What kind of person would sign a blank cheque? A fool. What kind of fool would sign a blank cheque? A fool who is spending someone else’s money. What kind of fool, spending someone else’s money, would sign a blank cheque? Ask the Trudeau government.

I’m relieved that the NDP government in B.C. refused to sign on.

Jerry Steinberg, Surrey

FIFA decision was wise

Thanks to Mike Smyth for explaining the reasons why our government turned down the World Cup. Would it have been a lifetime experience? Of course.

Unfortunately, FIFA wants to control everything. This would have cost way too much money, never mind the inconveniences it would cause. Of course the Liberals, Jas Johal and Michelle Stilwell, disagree. These are the people who would be the first to complain if the event had gone ahead and gone over-budget.

Premier John Horgan made a wise decision. Watch the games on TV.

David Reid, Burnaby

Leftists have exiled God

Letter-writer Don Sukkau rightly points to the emptiness in one’s soul, despite the worldly success of celebrities like Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain, that leads one to throw away the precious gift of human life by suicide.

God has been forcibly exiled from daily life by modern leftist politicians (with support from the media) by indoctrinating children in school to believe that they have ascended from apes and that their lives are of little value except as progressive soldiers on the road to utopia. Life can be extinguished in the womb and now through euthanasia. The leftists can’t go much further to make life meaningless.

A swing back to religion for finding true meaning in one’s life is coming.

Jiti Khanna, Vancouver

New ‘generation of bigots?’

The most disquieting aspect of parents protesting the SOGI-123 school curriculum (in which everyone has a sexual orientation and gender identity) is that they are undoubtedly brain-washing their own children with their brand of narrow-minded intolerance, therefore breeding a whole new generation of bigots.

To counter such destructively negative influences on the continued advancement of civilized thinking, all the more need for SOGI-123.

Liz Stonard, Port Alberni

Krog can’t do two jobs

Nanaimo MLA Leonard Krog needs to explain to his constituents how he will be able to effectively represent them while running for mayor of Nanaimo.

It’s impossible to effectively manage the time required for his mayoral campaign and effectively carry out his duties as MLA.

Taxpayers want and deserve a full-time MLA, not a part-time one whose time will be spent campaigning for a new job.

Edward Rogers, Vancouver

Change needed

Isn’t it great that Kwantlen Polytechnic University political-science Prof. Shinder Purewal in his column against proportional representation actually makes the case for a change in the electoral system?

We need to get rid of unlimited spending and lobbying by special-interest groups. PR is more egalitarian because it allows a wider range of views. He seems to suggest that voters aren’t smart enough to understand the choices put before them, but most people do understand. They know that the present system only serves the interests of a small group and it’s time to change.

Ellen McDonnell, Christina Lake

Affordability might not happen

It seems that the housing situation in B.C. is a never-ending topic of conversation. We hear endlessly that the solution to affordability is more supply and that one of the main impediments to supply is the length of time it takes to get projects approved. This is a legitimate (and costly) concern, though expediting the approval process will not necessarily result in a more affordable housing market.

We have been bombarded for 16 years by the B.C. Liberals that we are a free-enterprise province and judging from the millions of dollars that flowed into their coffers from developers, they agree.

Being free-enterprisers implies that even if every project held up in the approval process were suddenly approved, developers would only bring on the supply (including the supply mix) that maximizes profit, as is their prerogative.

That wouldn’t necessarily make housing more affordable.

Al Williams, Richmond


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