Letters to the editor, May 24: 'I have long hoped to purchase and drive an EV, but it's simply not possible based on my income'

Well stocked Re "Carney's cabinet: a familiar mix of quotas, duplication and pork-barrel politics" (Opinion, May 17): The continued preoccupations with regional interests, gender parity and the power of the Prime Minister's Office are certainly open to criticism. However, the labelling of some newer ministries as "comic-book portfolios" suggests that governments should remain static and not address emerging issues such as artificial intelligence, Northern economic development and Canada-U.S trade relations. Perhaps critics would be happier with the cabinet of Sir John A. Macdonald, which included a minister of the interior, minister of militia and superintendent-general of Indian affairs. Robert Coutts…