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Asking questions doesn’t make us foolish
Re: Is defiance of authority embedded in the DNA of Albertans?, Opinion, May 8
The writer has cast residents of this province as mutinous sailors aboard the Bounty. When I am out, all I see is vast compliance with masking, distancing, and occupancy limits. I do read about pockets of disobedience, but I also read about those in just about every jurisdiction in North America.
Why is the author suggesting that it’s just Albertans who are a rogue group of disobedient pirates? There are thousands of rapid tests sitting in government warehouses unused and undeployed. There are confusing rules in which 15 people can sit together inside in a church but four people can’t play golf outside. Areas that have large COVID outbreaks can let people move throughout the city, but vaccinated, masked Canadians can’t come home from the U.S. without being locked away for three days. Scientists at Pfizer say to get your second shot in 21 days and our non-scientific government says wait 120 days. Asking questions and demanding answers is not acting with stupidity.
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Albertans are not sheep. We are a very educated populace and we have succeeded because we always ask why is it done like this and is there a way to do it better. That does not make us foolish and short-sighted as the author suggests.
Darrin Hopkins, Calgary
There’s a cost to cleaning up after inconsiderate K-Country users
Re: Kananaskis fees a money grab by UCP, May 4
Last Saturday, I took part in Alberta’s annual highway cleanup. From the Banff Park gates along the Trans-Canada Highway to Highway 40, from the 1X to the 1A, down through Exshaw and back to Canmore and the Three Sisters Parkway, volunteers collected 420 bags of garbage.
Some of the items collected were used diapers, plastic and glass bottles, energy and beer cans, everything fast food, styrofoam, tarps, storage tubs, dog kennels, car parts, used condoms, needles, jugs of full urine, even a bride’s veil.
While I detest having to pay more for anything, funds are needed to clean up and fix up after the selfish. Not everyone is to blame, but someone has to pay for those who are thoughtless.
Paul Baumberg, Dead Mans Flats
Leaders rise in a crisis
Re: Virus Winning Race Versus Vaccines, May 10
This article brilliantly describes the gross negligence of Alberta’s political leadership in dealing with the pandemic. Operating on the knife’s edge brings out the character, vision and capability of our elected representatives.
Mark Gottlieb, Calgary
MLAs should set the example
Premier Jason Kenney has stated that he is giving his MLAs free rein to choose whether or not to receive the COVID vaccine. As provincial and community leaders, the MLAs should be protecting lives, ending the lockdowns and hopefully helping put this pandemic behind us.
Once again, Kenney has chosen his personal ideology over doing what is right. Albertans need and deserve better.
Terry Germain, Chestermere
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