Third World Mentality

Reading the letters to the editor reveals a much too common theme both Federally and Provincially, DFO shuns science, Fisheries minister ignores the advise of his head marine mammal scientist about Harp seals and sets the unsustainable catch at the request of industry lobbyists, instead of government scientists. 

Torys dismantling environmental protection,Federal government slashes by half funds for Environmental Assessment agency and all funding to the Canadian Environmental network, and now the final nail, the gutting of the Federal fisheries act and calling anyone that disagrees with these actions radicals and even terrorists.

The same reckless environmental mismanagement at best and criminal negligence at worse is seen with the polar bear which Canada recognizes as a “ species of special concern” and has protected status under U.S. Endangered Species Act., with a declining population of an estimated 20,000 to 25,000 and we Canadians are still allowing them to be hunted, or how about the grizzly that is regarded as a keystone indicator of ecosystem health, 73 percent of BC citizens want the hunt stopped, but once again vested interests, greed and stupidity are the rule of the day, the same can be said about Caribou which are also thanks to global warming, loss of habitat and trophy hunting in serious decline, a 57 percent decrease in population drop in the last decade and the hunters answer is “ it’s better that I shoot the animal than it dies of hunger” 

! wow !.

All these travesties come down to a government that has no problem with letting resource extractors, corporations, pipelines etc. monitor themselves, like that has ever worked or ever will work, 

money has no conscience, greed has no limits and stupidity is rampant. 

If Canada is to carry on for the sole benefit of these carpetbaggers and environmental terrorists, Canada will rapidly become exactly how it is being run, a ravaged third world country.

Three great forces rule the world: stupidity, fear and greed. --Albert Einstein

Wayne Clark


PS Historically man has no problem with not only the unintended extermination of species but the conscious extermination of a species such as the slaughter of 60 million buffalo in 10 years for the sole purpose of exterminating the plains indians.           
The more things change the more they stay the same.


P.S. When the inevitable happens and that last polar bear is identified there will be hundreds if not thousands of pathetic souls willing to spend millions for the pleasure of killing that last polar bear.         
Do you have any doubt?