Dear editor:
Could someone please tell me when Northwestern Ontario left Canada and became “Sarsfield-land”? Perhaps that would explain why our businesses are being threatened with sizable fines if they do not abide by the Sarsfield rules.
We used to live in a democratic society with elected officials. Elected officials would make laws and if we did not agree with them, we could vote them out at the next election.
Mayor Witherspoon and town councillors, please turn off the lights when you close up shop—Dictator Sarsfield won’t be needing you.
Businesses employ people and pay taxes. Should it not be up to the business owners how they conduct their business? Oh, that’s right, they’re just suppose to pay their sizable property taxes and forget their rights and freedom “a la Sarsfield.”
Will Dr. Sarsfield be willing to donate some of his six-figure annual salary to the local coffers to make up the property tax shortfall the town will incur due to businesses closing?
Perhaps each employee of the Northwestern Health Unit could adopt an employee who loses their job when a business downsizes or shuts down. After all, they should accept the responsibility so that the rest of us taxpayers don’t have to.
We teach children that bullying is wrong, yet we accept and do nothing when the biggest bully in Canada snaps his fingers.
Town council was trying to decide between a large bass or a mermaid statue as a tourist attraction. Perhaps the ego-crusading Sarsfield (an appearance on CBC’s The National is not enough) would find it more fitting to have a life-size statue of “his eminence” erected.
That way, the birds would be able to do what many of us can only dream of doing.
Sincerely,
Joe Gray
Fort Frances, Ont.
Fort Frances Times
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