Thursday's letters: Let up on security screening, too

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Sep 29, 2022 - 17 hours ago - 2 minute read - 13 Comments

Central security at the Edmonton International Airport. File photo.
Central security at the Edmonton International Airport. Submit image. Photo by Greg Southam/ Postmedia

Now that the federal government has actually raised COVID-19 constraints at airports, here is an another limiting step that certainly needs to be attended to: My partner and I took a trip back to Alberta recently from investing our summertime in Atlantic Canada. My check-on luggage was opened and browsed, and a little container of speciality jam was taken (a couple of ounces over the enabled limitation). I parked my anger however started to believe.

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It has actually been over 20 years given that a box-cutter was utilized to commandeer an airplane that removed the Twin Towers, in New York. Because that time, the taking a trip public has actually undergone numerous indignities, consisting of pat-downs, doubtful searches, photographed, frisked, and individual products took. This is an unneeded breach of typical decency, an overreach and enormous disrespect to the taking a trip public. Why are we not all annoyed, specifically when taking a trip in one's own nation, with a Canadian passport?

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In current years, flight has actually ended up being pricey, aggravating, and disrespectful of human self-respect. When will this security insanity end? The taking a trip public is now dealt with as if we are all suspect. It's about time the majority of the rest of these indignities were likewise dropped.

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Marie Chidley, Edmonton

Price-gouging at the pumps?

I looked in shock at the brand-new gas costs at the pumps the other day: $1.54 The tax relief ends on Saturday which needs to be a 4.5-cent boost on Oct. 1. Oil rates are down for some time. If that is not cost gouging by the oil market on the backs of individuals currently dealing with inflation, then the only other description would be that I am actually bad at mathematics, as I can not compute the 20- cent increase at the pump.

Karin Fodor, Edmonton

UCP does not appreciate laws

I am more than a little worried about the instructions the UCP has actually taken of late. While I enjoyed to see Jason Kenney choose to step down, I believe Danielle Smith's sovereignty act is the worst concept she has actually had considering that betraying the Wildrose Party. I check out Kaycee Madu, the man who attempted to utilize his position to get out of a traffic ticket, supports the flexibility convoy that wreaked havoc on our southern border and the Canadian economy.

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And now I check out that Tyler Shandro, who is being examined by the Law Society of Alberta for expert misbehavior, does not desire the RCMP to implement the seizure of unlawful assault-style guns. I think their brand-new motto is "hello, who appreciates the law? We'll do what we desire."

John Campbell, Edmonton

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