Had forgotten about this letter....

I'm impressed, any letter to the editor taking a swipe at the media usually doesn't get published. Snaps to the editor of the Guelph Tribune.

http://www.guelphtribune.ca/trib/viewpoint/viewpoint_776010.html

Governments tightening the noose around our necks

Sue-Ann Levy of the Toronto Sun does a good job of explaining Toronto city council's latest folly, removing a consumer's choice...

http://www.torontosun.com/News/Columnists/Levy_Sue-Ann/2007/04/26/4130712.html

This may seem minor, but when combined with all the ban, restrict, tax out of existence legislation that the McGuinty Liberals and the Miller city council have passed, it leads to the frightening scenario that we have less and less choice, fewer and fewer rights.

Complacency is the enemy of democracy.

We'd better start screaming at our elected representatives (who seem to have forgotten that they represent the people, not their own agendas), and remember at the polls how the Ontario Liberals and Toronto city council are legislating us into severely restricted lives, taking away our choices one by one by one.

What happens to your letters....

I wrote a letter to the Edmonton Sun about a junkyard dog that bit some people and is now slated to die. Here's the original text....

I am very sorry for the victims in this incident, which include Bruiser. A dog chained in a junkyard by a negligent owner, left isolated, untrained and unsocialized, is an accident waiting to happen. I note that there is a comment that the dog had bitten before. Was the owner charged at that time? Did animal control do any followup to see whether the dog's living conditions had been improved, whether the dog was receiving any obedience training, taken off-chain?

Now the junkyard owner refuses to acknowledge ownership of the dog and thinks to wipe the slate clean by killing Bruiser. There is nothing to stop this person from getting another dog, chaining it, failing to train and socialize it, and creating another dangerous dog.

Even David Aitken, director of complaints and investigations for the city bylaw department, stated, "There's concerns with the dog owner's ability to keep the dog on the property". How will this owner keep any other dog on the property?

Had this dog been a german shepherd type (a common junkyard dog), would people be asking about a "breed ban"? Breed is irrelevant. Responsible dog ownership is all.

Poor Bruiser. Chained, isolated, unsocialized, and now slated to die because of a negligent human.

Any law concerning dogs must look to behaviour of the human owner, not at the shape of the dog.
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The letter was printed by the Edmonton Sun, after some editing, fifth one down....as you can see, letters can be severely edited. I'm grateful they kept the basic thought behind the letter.

http://www.edmontonsun.com/Comment/Letters/2007/04/26/4130547.html

I am very sorry for the victims in the pit bull incident, including Bruiser. A dog chained in a junkyard and left isolated, untrained and unsocialized is an accident waiting to happen. Breed is irrelevant. Responsible dog ownership is all. Poor Bruiser - slated to die because of a negligent human. Any law concerning dogs should consider the behaviour of the human owner, not the shape of the dog.

First rule in a bad relationship

I've been going through today's headlines and note Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty's response to most questioning is to go on the offensive.

Premier defends 'flick off' campaign
McGuinty suggests bias behind grant questions
Liberals defeat motion for auditor to probe grants
Liberals refuse to release cost of vague, shoddy and unjust amendments to Dog Owners' Liability Act (okay, I made up the headline, but not the Liberals' refusal)

I've learned through a series of bad relationships that the best defense is a good offense. When questioned, don't justify, attack. The attack should distract the questioner, and get you off the hook for answers to serious questions.

Seems to me like we're in a bad relationship with the Ontario Liberals.

And in case you think the federal Liberals aren't as bad...remember this outstanding relationship of theirs...

Lafleur pleads guilty to 28 fraud charges
Canadian PressMONTREAL — Jean Lafleur, a fraudster with the taste for the sunny high life, admitted in court today that he duped the federal government out of $1.5 million in the sponsorship program.

Opposition 'flicking' mad over green campaign

It's all over the papers. Yep, flick off is what I've been saying to the Ontario Liberals for the last three and a half years. They can't flick off, because their lights have been out all this time, never went on.

Do the Ontario Liberals pay carbon credits to offset the hot air emissions coming out of Queen's Park?