MidlandToday welcomes letters to the editor at [email protected] or via our website. Please include your daytime phone number and address (for verification of authorship, not publication). The following letter concerns Canada's plan to continue bringing in nearly 500,000 immigrants annually until 2026, one of the highest rates per population of any country in the world.
Dear Editor,
Housing affordability seems to be dead along with our healthcare system.
Ten years ago, our governments were warned as they closed hospital beds and shortages of doctors and nurses were being felt around the country.
At that time, house prices began to rise along with our population.
Governments did little to fix the problem. Millions of people have been added since then and our homeless population has more than doubled while housing tripled and so did wait-times in hospitals.
Now we have people dying unnecessarily because of neglect.
The old, the weak, the sick and homeless are the victims of poor judgment and lack of proper planning that is needed. When you add millions of people, you just don't dump them on the street without a place to sleep or a place to get medical help.
Brian Mellor
Midland
