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JAMES P. BROWN

ORLÉANS

(Shouldn’t it be up to the elected officials — not special interest groups — to balance the books?)

LOOKS LIKE A BOX TO ME

Regarding the Château Laurier’s latest attempt at an addition, David Leinster, a Toronto landscape architect and urban design expert said, “It’s a difficult one, I think, for people to understand, but it is really important for future generations to be able to clearly see what the historic building is and what the addition was.”

Perhaps Leinster could explain so people understand why it’s really important because I’m looking into my crystal ball. I see people with cameras wrapped around their necks, shaking their heads while looking at the hotel. From what I can hear, it sounds like they’re all saying the same thing: “It’s hard to believe, decades ago, they could design that and decades later all they could come up with is a box.”

No offence meant toward today’s architects, but it doesn’t take an architect to design a square.

JILL YOUNG

OTTAWA

(Agreed — and our city must demand better.)

CLEAN UP AFTER YOURSELVES

Re: It’s only fair; New real estate rules good for homebuyers and sellers, May 29

Regarding the upcoming law changes on real estate sales in Ontario, I believe, in residential sales, it should be mandatory for either the seller or the selling real estate company to have the home professionally cleaned before the buyer takes possession.

I ran into this issue myself on my last house purchase, and currently it’s pretty much left up to the integrity of the seller, and too often there is a lack of it.

MIKE SHURTLIFF

KANATA

(Do we really need to legislate common decency?)

SHUSH SCHEER

Andrew Scheer states that if he is elected PM he wants the state network to focus on Canadian issues. Young Andrew should instead be concerned with cutting the funding to this behemoth organization or, at the very least, decreasing it.

Telling the media what the government would like them to air or print is rather chilling. A free press is paramount to a democratic society; the Conservative leader sounds rather dictatorial.

STEPHEN FLANAGAN

OTTAWA

(Agreed!)

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