Please call or email [email protected] if you require service or to book an appointment. Thank you. Today I turn 70 years old, which even I find hard to believe, and I have known myself from birth. I did not think seventy years old would feel so young, but I am lucky. All the same this is a great birthday, starting out with the Salt Spring party last weekend, thanks to Bob MacKie!
I will continue enjoying birthday parties this week! John Kidder will be singing! We are rebuilding this party one hug at a time. The Alberta trip was great. I walked off the stage to a standing ovation. And had a great hug from my dear brother in arms, Paul Manly, now a Nanaimo municipal council member! One first responder on the same panel reflected on what it was like to help Lytton where the town council no longer had the ability to legally spend any money.
All the town by-laws had burned up in the fire. In case you missed it, some good news about climate leaders. Last Sunday, the new president of Mexico was elected. Most news coverage mentioned she is the first woman president of Mexico, less mentioned is that she is an IPCC scientist! This week we juggled a lot of media, hosting the visiting BC Southern Resident Killer Whale activists, holding a press conference about asbestos fibres in pipes delivering drinking water across Canada, calling for real climate action with the victims of climate change events who came to Ottawa in person, while Oil and gas CEOs testified over zoom.
This relatively new committee includes members of parliament and Senators from all parties, except us, with each member required to have top secret security clearance. Their report raises serious alarms, while leaving huge areas of uncertainty. Are any MPs actual traitors? If anyone passed on secrets about Canada in exchange for money or any form of favour, then I think that is a traitorous action.
This very helpful New York Times article interviewed one of my favourite smart experts in the field Kent Roach. Kent Roach at the University of Toronto told me the only law that might have been broken was the Security of Information Act, but only if officially classified information had been passed along.
