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The week in letters [CA]

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Russell, Paul
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18 Dec 2006
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Every week, the National Post receives hundreds of letters to the editor, providing a snapshot of our readers' collective state of mind. Our letters editor highlights some of the more passionately argued letters we received last week that did not make it into the paper.

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- Does Canada need a national daycare plan? Many readers think it does, as they expressed support for the ideas put forth in a column by daycare advocate Martha Friendly. And just as many wrote in to support the opposing view of Andrea Mrozek, of the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada.

Among the letters friendly-to- Friendly was this note from General Leung. "Andrea Mrozek's article had my spidey sense tingling," he said. "What really gets to me is her final claim that, 'It's hard for anyone, no matter their political stripe, to see state-run daycare as a form of social justice, sound economics or being in the best interests of children.' My mother went to work so she could afford to send me to high quality preschool -- not the other way around."

And then there were the unfriendly-to-Friendly letters.

"The last thing I want is to have another inefficient bungling bureaucracy trying to indoctrinate my children into today's Liberal way of thinking," wrote Bob Musselman.

- reprinted from the National Post

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