Major crises coming to Vancouver Island Three articles in the Times Colonist on June 15 and 16, taken together, indicate that a growing and potentially very serious crisis is headed Canada’s way, with particular attention to Vancouver Island.
First, on June 15, a serious warning from B.C. Hydro that somehow “…the province is going to need enough new power to run 270,000 homes starting as early as 2028.” No one has offered a realistic plan to find a means of providing this power.
Thank goodness I am 81 years old and will not likely be around long enough to see this looming catastrophe play out to its likely end.Transportation needs limit our population Re: “Vancouver Island has plenty of room for more people,” commentary, June 19. You might think we can grow and grow, but coastal communities aren’t in a transportation vacuum. We all need to get on and off our various Islands.
Into the Cold War era, our effort against another world war was to rely on the U.S. nuclear deterrent. Today the population is 40 million, double what it was when I joined, and the regular force is 60,000, down 50 per cent. As our population increased by doubling over the past 65-plus years, our military has shrunk by half while the world continues to blast away in so many conflicts.
What does not make any sense is the B.C. human rights commissioner’s recommendation to school districts to shut down police liaison programs on the grounds that there is no empirical evidence anywhere about the impact of such programs on students from racial minorities. Also, I suggest that relying on the findings of research done on school liaison programs operating in the United States is a bad idea as there are significant differences between American and Canadian justice and school systems.Brentwood Bay
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