Dear Editor:
Most of the time it is better to extend our view beyond the immediate, gut-level reaction that we feel inside when confronted with a disagreeable piece of news. It is with this in mind that I offer up the follow questions and kudos this week.
When backing up and looking at the following simultaneous local tax issues why does it still burn in my brain? The local, big business and developer Pearle
Hospitality gets a tax break for the next few years while all of the wee households are getting a tax hike?
When backing up to look at the complaints from Alma, Salem and Fergus residents over Band-Aids that don’t look like a real Fergus “bypass” at all, I ask why there appears to be no “planning” at all? I cite this definition “A bypass is a road or highway that avoids or ‘bypasses’ a built-up area, town, or village, to let through traffic flow without interference from local traffic, to reduce congestion in the built-up area, and to improve road safety.”
When backing up to look at a proposed new bridge over the Grand River to align with a massive subdivision’s main road, called the Beatty Line, why does it look to land into a small residential and farm area on the south side of the river with no close, main thoroughfare to ease traffic flow?
Kudos to local politician Mr. Michael Chong for adding sober comments and critique to the CBC program the Fifth Estate episode on the failed CanSino vaccine deal with China and continued security concerns about China. He participated in a responsible way instead of bashing the messenger (the CBC).
Kudos to the local and Canadian healthcare workers who have hung in during this grinding COVID-19 experience while taking abuse from people demonstrating at their workplace and cowardly sending threats. You are heroes and the silent majority respect your honourable work.
Thomas Althouse,
Fergus