A fond farewell
This is my public
farewell to my many restaurateur friends in Georgina. On Friday, June 1st,
I will take my $2000 eating-out budget and cross the line into Durham Region.
This is a difficult
choice for me, because I leave behind many friends. However, I will not have
my personal habits dictated to me by a less than perfect administration, or a
bunch of single-issue zealots.
For example, it is
estimated that smog will kill 1,900 Ontarians this year, and cost the economy
and health-care system $1 billion.
Moreover, the noxious
gases attributed to second hand smoke are almost identical to those being
spewed out of oil well vents in Alberta—many owned by Petro Canada—without
a peep from councilor Hastings, Gar Hahood, or the anti-smoking lobby.
It seems to me that if
this gaggle of health vigilantes is really serious about eradicating second
hand smoke, it is time they pressured the provincial and federal governments
to enact an outright ban of the manufacture, sale, and use of tobacco
products.
Then we will see if
Allan Rock, Paul Martin, and Jim Flaherty, have the guts to take their tobacco
tax-stained fingers out of the smokers’ pockets, and face the economic and
political consequences.
Let’s stop the bull.
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