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2 THE RURAL VOICE
Feedback
Too much praise
for China
Wow! Duncan McCallum's piece
on modern China (Eye Opener, July
2005) looks like it was put together
by the Chinese Chamber of
Commerce, or Ministry of Truth!
I guess Dunc missed the recent TV
images of Chinese farmers being
beaten by government thugs to get
these people off the land they had
farmed for generations.
Perhaps he could have reflected on
what happened in Tiananmen Square
a generation ago.
Or the shame of China's actions in
Tibet.
How about the lot of working
people in this "worker's paradise"?
It seems fashionable in the West to
rave about the miracles of modern
China. From what I can see, this is a
largely fascistic state that is rapidly
becoming corporatized. Its slogan
could well be, "by the many,
for the few". No wonder
western big business loves it so
much.
Keith Roulston's column is an
ironic counterpoint to Mr
'McCallum's lauding of the'wonders
of a fascist state. Here, we have
provincial and federal govern-
ments running thinly disguised
programs of rural "clearances",
which at least some of us (like
Roulston) actually lament. Yet in
China, it is apparently a wonderful
thing!O
Ian Campbell
R.R.2,
Chesley, ON
Little concern for
preserving wetlands
I just wanted to correct the false
impression you leave in the July issue
that government cares about
wetlands. This is a letter to the editor
I wrote last winter that was in the
Wellington Advertiser.,
Dear Editor,
At a public meeting about the
Highway 7 Guelph to Kitchener
expressway I was informed that my
wetland is seriously degraded and
needs a road put through it. The folks
who did the counting for the MTO
somehow missed 87 per cent of the
`plant species. This and many other
items would make this a false report
and a false report is against the law
(Environmental Assessment Act.
section 34).
I thought there would be people
interested in hearing about this but 1
was wrong. I found many offices full
of people who were experts in how
they could not help.
I never could understand why tax
freedom day is past half through the
year but it's starting to get
clearer. You, the taxpayer, have
first paid to declare my bush
"provincially significant" and then
paid to call it a disaster. You have
paid the police, the Ministry of the
Environment, the Ombudsman,
the Ministry of Natural Resources.
the Environmental Commissioner,
the Grand River Conservation
Authority and two MPPs to do
nothing. It is clear that we
don't really care about the
environment so why should we
pay all these people to pretend to
care. December 17, 2004 was
the last day to waste your time
commenting on the Highway 7
Expressway Environmental Assess-
ment. They plan to use half of my
bush for road and kill the rest by
flooding it with about a metre of
extra water. This too will need more
careful study.
It is not one big hole that wastes
all your tax dollars, it is thousands
of smaller ones. Government
spreads like a bad weed. looking
for every corner it can find as
seen in the Walkerton mess.
You are powerless before your
servants.0
Trevor Vanderpo!
Guelph, ON