Dear Editor:
Ottawa has declared a state of emergency. If we, as Canadians, expand our vision beyond our own country and needs, we might look to Afghanistan to see what a real state of emergency might mean.
A financial system that has collapsed, assets frozen in American banks, no money to pay for labour or food.
The media that I watch, listen to, and read has been covering this crisis since Canada, the United States and other NATO partners fled from the country in August 2021, leaving the people there to a slow death.
We know what winter can be like in Canada; so do the poor, the children, the homeless, the disabled, the malnourished know what it looks like in a country ravished by decades of war.
In Canada, we can make a difference if we want to do so. It seems to me, we don’t, so we continue to look inward. COVID coverage has taken up 98% of our news for the past two years.
Don’t we ever get tired talking about ourselves and our problems as if there wasn’t another world out there that deserves our attention and help?
Starvation kills in Afghanistan. There is no vaccine against it. Call your MP, organize protests, write opinion pieces.
Ask the Canadian government to do more.
Janet Calderwood,
Rockwood