Letters

The consultant’s final recommendations in Saanich’s People, Pets and Parks (PPP) study, will be considered by Saanich council on June 26. Our society has serious concerns about its recommendations for PKOLS-Mount Douglas Park related to dogs, the damage they have done to the park ecosystem and the lack of recommendations within the report that will address this.

A recent letter writer was indignant about being ticketed for a seatbelt infraction. The fact that they were ticketed on Mother’s Day is irrelevant.

I read your recent editorial on the loss of parking and agree totally. I also think there are several more problems that you could have added. I am only hoping that your words might help change some of this silliness.

Re: Our View: “Loss of parking spaces limits tenants’ options.”

After reading the article in the May 10 Saanich News about UBC’s Paul Keyshaw advocating for a surtax on homes valued at over $1 million, I had several questions.

Building homes for cars as a condition of building homes for people is a bundling problem that increases the cost of much-needed shelter.

Your recent editorial claims “loss of parking spaces limits tenants’ options.”

Your dual national writer (May 18) seems not to believe that Canada is an independent country because our head of state (the King of Canada) is foreign-born and a non-resident. Well, he is largely wrong in that and has been since the Statute of Westminster of 1931. Many Latin American countries were born of revolution: not so Canada, as we deliberately chose a different path than the 13 colonies below us on the continent.

When I was a child in this area, it was not uncommon for the police to pick one up for walking on the wrong side of the road with your back to traffic and take you home where one would be punished for transgressing the law.

I have a suggestion for the letter writer who would like to have a Latin American government in Canada, and to everyone else who objects to Canada having a monarch as the head of state. Don’t think of Charles III as a ‘monarch’, but as a ‘hereditary chief’. That should reconcile the problem.