Dear Editor
The findings of the committee formed to look into murders a few years ago in Nova Scotia damned the police in the area at the time. Among the suggestions made to improve police training was to close the training centre in Regina.
Oh, great, I thought, yet one more thing taken from Saskatchewan.
The next thing was the suggestion to “get rid” of the RCMP.
I’m sure that did nothing for the morale of the thousands of police who steadfastly do their duty and, at times, pay for it with their lives.
“Getting rid” of things, whatever “things,” is almost a political and non-political pastime in Canada. Throw the baby out with the bath water, to destroy some rotten apples, dump the whole barrel: is that the answer? Just improve the model.
At that same time, going through many boxes of paper (a winter project) I came across an unsealed, unaddressed envelope containing an undated letter. I recalled writing it at a time when the country was inundated with think tanks. We don’t hear of these useless groups much anymore. I think they’ve followed the dinosaur. There is, however, still the Fraser Institute.
Larry Solomon mentioned in the letter I found wanted to “get rid” of Canadian farmers. This was before climate change had been discovered and certain people began to blame that on cows. That man would have loved that and jumped on it to ride it. It would never have occurred to him to look in the mirror and see who is responsible for climate change.
Although the letter was written some years ago it is relevant today. Canada has many Larry Solomons.
I do know I wrote the letter around the time I coined the phrase “The greatest fear now in the world of agriculture is the urbanization of thought.”
Christine Pike
Waseca
