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Whether such measures remain viable in an Internet age is another question. But Coyne’s dismissal of their original purpose is both ill-timed and ill-conceived.

Gregory Millard, Port Moody, B.C.

Question of priorities



Re: Wait Lists For Free IVF Stretch To 2018, May 26.



Please help me understand why the Ontario Liberal government has discovered $50 million in the taxpayers’ coffers to fund in-vitro fertilization, while declaring that there is not enough money available for essential health care and social services for those of us who have already been born.

Lawrence B. Cohen, Toronto.

Natural progression

Re: Trudeau Owns The Millennials, Tasha Kheiriddin, May 26.

The eventual maturation of this sector of the population, past and present, was forecast by Winston Churchill when he wrote: “If you are not a liberal by 20, you have no heart — not a conservative by 40, you have no brains.”

J.M. Leonn, Leamington, Ont.

Komagatu Maru facts

Re: The Real Story Of The Komagata Maru, Terry Glavin, May 26.

In his article, Terry Glavin has added an important element to the factually deficient apology made by Justin Trudeau for the 1914 Komagata Maru incident — that the prime minister failed to mention that a good many of the passengers who were prevented from landing were part of a revolutionary movement aimed at setting up a base in Canada to overthrow British rule in India.

Another important point that was overlooked in the apology was that, while British Columbia and Canada as a whole was much more racist back then than today, the major issue leading to the Komagata Maru incident was essentially economic. British Columbia was faced with the prospect of massive inflows of unskilled labourers from Asian countries prepared to work for far less than a living wage. It was the common working people of British Columbia who were most strongly opposed to allowing the entry of large numbers of low-wage foreign labour. The powers that be therefore put in place various measures, including legal restraints, to make it difficult for such foreign workers to land in Canada.