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WEDNESDAY, April 10, 2019
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
IF THE WORLD CHANGES, IT WILL BE WOMEN BEHIND IT Editor: Here is a perspective I have a not heard amongst the barrage of speculation and opinion about the SNC-Lavalin affair. I suspect Jody Wilson-Raybould knew which direction things were going when she recorded her conversation with Michael Wernick. I suspect she was covering herself, hoping she’d never have to use the recording. She waited a long time. But the Liberal Party of Canada and Prime Minister
Justin Trudeau pushed her. What is happening right now is a deeper feminism than any conversation about equality and equity. It is a demonstration by women who want to use skills different from those of men in a culture based on a patriarchal foundation of adversarial old boy ways of doing business. (Think Donald Trump, Doug Ford, etc.) Trudeau set himself up as the feminist prime minister who was going to do government
in a different way. When those two women — Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott — held him to his word, he got more than he bargained for, and so did they when they were evicted from the old boys’ club for not obeying their rules and refusing to be bullied. I say bravo, bravo. We will see more of this as women gain equal power because research repeatedly shows women do things differently — more collaboratively and cooperatively.
I have not heard anyone mention that in her recording with Wernick, Wilson-Raybould was without doubt trying to protect Trudeau, to inform him that what he was doing was unacceptable and inappropriate. Everyone has forgotten it started with a broken law. The real point of it has become lost in the rhetoric of the media and what they choose to sensationalize, and politicians using what they can to get elected in the fall. I can see them licking their lips
right now. Handmaidens to an unchanged system, unable to wait until tomorrow, when they can continue to aggrandize the game of politics, so-called democracy and their own spin-doctoring. These are very interesting times. The world is going to be turned upside down before we know if this planet will survive both the inner and outer landscape. If it changes, it will be the women who do it. Wendy Weseen Kamloops
NO PLASTIC BAG BAN UNTIL CITY HALL GIVES US ALTERNATIVES Editor: The discontinued use of plastic straws and plastic take-out food containers works because restaurants that have done so have provided recyclable and/or biodegradable alternatives to the plastic products they no longer use. Banning all grocery store plastic bags, however, does present a problem.
We use some insulated bags and some cloth bags when we shop for groceries, but we also purchase a few plastic bags for four cents each at the checkout. These grocery store plastic bags are already made from recycled plastic and we subsequently use them to dispose of wet kitchen waste (vegetable peelings, meat trimmings, egg shells, coffee filters, etc.), so they are defi-
nitely not single use. Putting wet kitchen waste directly into the garbage bin would create a wet stinky mess inside a garage and a huge bear attractant if bins are kept in a carport between weekly pickups. Washing out a large garbage bin every week is not realistic, especially in winter, because it would waste a lot of water and still leave the
dirty water be disposed of somewhere. Not everyone has a backyard composter (some don’t even have backyards) and there is no curbside recycling program for kitchen waste. It would be irresponsible for Kamloops council to ban plastic bags without first providing a convenient and realistic alternative. Ken Dalke, Kamloops
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