HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Citizen, 1988-08-24, Page 7Letters to the editor THE CITIZEN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1988. PAGE 7.
Local peace group wanted to meet Mulroney
An open letter to Prime Minister
Mulroney
Dear Prime Minister Mulroney,
It was with deep regret that we
heard of your unwillingness to
meet with members of the Huron
Bruce Peace Pledge Campaign
when you were recently in God
erich. It is difficult for us to
understand why you would not give
10 minutes of your time to meet
with the pro-peace, anti-nuclear
lobby of the Huron Bruce Riding.
As requested by your office, we are
now sending you details of our
ideas, together with a gift of the
video, “Choices for the Future".
We hope you will watch the video
with your family.
Like the majority of Canadians,
we are in total favour of Canada
maintaining and developing a
defensive military position. How
ever. under your government,
Canada is developing, testing and
helping to manufacture many
OFFENSIVE, destablizing, wea
pon systems. The planned pur
chase of attack nuclear powered
submarines; the continuing test
ing of the cruise missile; the
continuing export of enriched
uranium and tritium; the frequent
B 52 flight training exercises in
British Columiba. Alberta, and
Northern Ontario; the permission
for Canada to be involved in the Air
Defense Initiative; the allowing of
Canadian companies to be involv
ed in “Star Wars" contracts; the
possibility that the North Warning
Surveillance System may be used
in S.D.I. and the frequent visits to
our ports of nuclear powered and
possible nuclear armed war ships,
are examples of the offensive,
Slow down
rush to dose
railways
THE EDITOR,
lam concerned about the sudden
rush to abandon railway lines
across the country and especially in
Ontario. I see railways as an
alternative to the ever increasing
proliferation of separate fossil fuel
burning highway vehicles.
It may well prove necessary and
beneficial to make greater use of
thefundamentally more energy
efficient and environmentally less
damaging rail network, as an
alternative. The interests of the
nation must lie in:
•conserving energy supplies,
•reducing pollution (e.g. carbon
dioxide, lead and asbestos),
•slowing down the onset of the
greenhouse effect which is heating
the planet, and which is caused by
burning fossil fuels,
•increasing highway safety, by
reducing the mix of heavy trucks
with smaller automobiles,
•reducing the costs to taxpayers of
an ever heavier duty highway
system,
•maximizing opportunities for re
gional development (e.g. rail
access for industrial parks, com
muter and tourist trains).
I feel that it is essential to
develop a mechanism to assist,
lean, motivated, regional entre
preneurs, who would be willing to
grow with the communities they
serve in the reactivation of rail
lines, which the large centralized
companies wish to abandon.
I recommend that interested
citizens write to: or send a clipping
of this letter to:
The Honourable Benoit Bouchard
Minister of Transport
Ottawa, Canada KIA 0N5
-no postage required
and
Mr. Michael Farquhar
Director General Rail Policy
Transport Canada
Place de Ville
Ottawa, Ontario
KIA 0N5
Ask them to protect Canada’s
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escalating, militaristic policies
that your government is pursuing.
You and your Ministers speak of
peace, whilst your collective be-
haviou r is that of preparing to wage
war. We are reminded of a saying
by an old Chinese Sage, "Unless
we change our direction, we are
likely to end up where we are
headed."
We would now like to outline the
tremendous role thatCanada could
play if DEFENSIVE policies and
surveillance were the hallmarks of
Canada’sweaponsfreezone. In
doing this Canada would become a
neutral territory between both
super powers in the nuclear arms
race.
Secondly, by increasing our
surveillance of the Arctic, (which
can be done readily without the
purchase of the nuclear powered
submarines), we could report any
intrusions into the Canadian Arctic
by either of the super powers, to an
international body such as the
United Nations. This would take
the pressure off both super
powers, since both powers would
be reassured of a truly neutral
country between them. As you are
aware, such a neutral Canadian
position has been well researched
and recommended by many Cana
dian defense experts. We deeply
hope that you will consider chang
ing from an offensive, destabiliz
ing, military position, to one
involving neutrality, surveillance
and defense of Canadian territory.
Each one of us is responsible for
the future. We recognize that it is
time for us to return to common
sense and to make conscious
choices about how we live on this
fragile planet earth. We are not
just passengers on space ship
earth, we are the crew. We are not
justthe residents of this planet, we
are the citizens. The difference in
bothcasesisresponsibility. We
urge you now to model this
responsibility and join us in
making a conscious choice for
peace. Peace is no longer a
philosophical choice, itisa survival
choice.
In the name of peace:
Jim Hollingworth, M.D.
Jane McClinchey
Fran McQuall
Dianne Klopp
Pauli Sommer
Brigitte Wolf
Organizing members of the Cana
dian Peace Pledge Campaign for
the Huron Bruce Riding.
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