CHECK ON INSURANCE
Re: “Alberta mom heads campaign to educate public on AEDs (WP, Sept. 5).
This was a great article and certainly a worthwhile cause. However, rural community associations and agricultural societies need to check with their insurance providers first.
We were to install a unit in our very busy agricultural facility but were told by our insurer that they would cancel all coverage. Another local community installed the machine, only to have to remove it because of loss of insurance coverage by their insurer.
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Farm groups are too amiable with the federal government
Farm groups and commodity groups in Canada often strike a conciliatory tone, rather than aggressively criticizing the government.
If the organization is large enough to have permanent staff, then it seems to be OK. Unfortunately, it’s the rural area where these AEDs (automatic external defibrillators) are most needed.
Ron Blain,
Innisfail, Alta.
FIREARMS PRIVATE
Firearms are private property. Whether it’s bears, cougars, wolves, etc., farmers must protect their property and livestock. Licences and fees for firearms should be abolished as prior to 1995. It’s unlawful for “eastern snakes” to tell us how to live or what to own.
RCMP should keep their noses out of the firearms debate; no input from them, only politicians make laws. Russian style amnesties yet? What a joke. Firearm reform must come now; it’s a free country. But with Canada $600 billion in debt, how else will they keep the peasants from rebelling?
Ed Storsuk,
St. George, Man.
LEADERS WITH SENSE
Two Tory senators deny knowing of Wright-Duffy pact as three provinces call for abolition of red chamber.
“The senate’s time is up. It’s time for us to move forward,” Manitoba attorney general and justice minister Andrew Swan said in an interview, noting the province has long supported abolition.
It’s a position buoyed by the recent controversies.
“With all of the shenanigans of senators, I think you’d have a hard time finding many Manitobans who support retaining this outdated, outmoded, anti-democratic institution,“ he said.
Saskatchewan premier Brad Wall and Nova Scotia premier Darrell Dexter have also called for senate abolition.
Many Canadians, including my-self, have for years been asking for the abolition of the very costly, appointed, ineffective Senate with no results.
Canadians have also been asking our MPs for a complete review and possible changes to our entire parliamentary system of government and the end of costly, ineffective policies such as official bilingualism and equalization payments, but also with no results.
Finally, we see at least three leaders with good, economic sense representing the citizens.
Ken Kellington,
Devon, Alta.
OUR PRECIOUS RESOURCE
Canada has more lakes than the rest of the world combined. Water is our most precious resource; the lifeblood of all living things. It just seems we have so much fresh water in Canada that we don’t look after it as we know we should.
It is clear that governments have ignored the basic principles of water stewardship for too many years in the pursuit of narrow economic interests.
Lake Winnipeg has become a horrid reminder of devastation that we are leaving our children and their children to bear alone. Now Lake Erie has a sickness that has returned.
So many of our lakes have become diseased.
The name of this disease is human complacency.
John Fefchak.
Virden, Man.
