It’s a new year. It’s time for a fresh start to tackle a world full of problems. For decades I have told my students, and my apprentices, and then my employees, that if you take care of all the small problems you can control, the big problems will pretty much take care of themselves. Nothing has ever been built from the top down.
If you want to build anything to last, you have to start with a solid foundation. In Canada, we have that solid foundation. It’s called democracy. But democracy can only work if the people hold their elected representatives to the highest standards.
In the coming months the citizens of Canada have an opportunity to let the people we elect know that we expect them to do better. This is true at all levels of government. Use your voices to tell the elected officials at the municipal, provincial and federal levels what we want, what we need, and what we expect from them. If we do not speak, they just might think that the status quo is OK. News flash, things are getting worse in Canada, not better.
Municipalities, the provinces, and the federal government have been neglecting our infrastructure. Our military is a shadow of its former self, health care across the country is becoming more expensive and less accessible, our roads and bridges, and our government buildings are in disrepair from decades of neglect. We have to let those we elect know that they will be held accountable when they do a poor job. The time for complacency is over. We, the citizens of Canada, have to step up while we still have democracy.
—Bill Petruniak
Amherstburg
Letter to the editor - A new year and a fresh start
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