Letters to the editor, June 5: ‘Without a budget and debate, perhaps we might as well dispense with Parliament altogether’

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Open this photo in gallery: The federal government said on Tuesday that it's not bound by a House of Commons vote to move up the timing of its budget or fiscal update.Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press You don’t say Re “Australia sounds the alarm over China’s ‘extraordinary military buildup’ ” (June 3): United States Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth assures allies in Asia that the U.S. will tactfully resist China’s military buildup by saying, “We will not instigate nor seek to subjugate or humiliate . . . we will not let our allies and partners be subordinated and intimidated.” That’s news...