By Staff
June 30th, 2023
BURLINGTON, ON
This just in from the City Communications department:
We will be posting about that shortly.
Got this at 2:42 in the afternoon.
We had asked if there were any plans to cancel the fireworks scheduled for Canada Day.
At this point it would see that the city is going to do what most of the other municipalities are doing.
Stand by.
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They can never lead in City of Burlington, can they? Nor just make a decision without ten studies, hired consultants and long pap-filled statements.
Instead of the mayor and Rory (Deputy Mayor of Environment, no less) at yet another swimming pool photo op today, maybe they could work on explaining why they won’t act on this and haven’t responded to public queries on it. It’s not hard. Well there’s a will, there’s a way. Ah, therein lies the rub.
Now if they find someone to give them an award if they act on it, then they’ll maybe be all over it?
Would it not be a reasonable assumption that parents of small children & adults with respiratory issues decide not to attend if the air quality is that bad? Less is more when it comes to government, in my humble opinion.
That doesn’t help the environment in any way. The environmental impacts are terrible. The cars will flood the downtown adding more pollutions. Cities who actually care about the environment and are willing to take real actions have cancelled. But here it all about meaningless headline-grabbing drivel like “declaring a climate emergency” – but the opportunity for mayoral and councillor photo ops and social media posts will always trump everything else it seems.
We have to actually make significant changes now. We have to radically change every thing we are doing to try to save the planet. This is a very different world now and everyone must ask themselves what things can we do, what real things can we do differently and how much are we willing to sacrifice for the younger generations and all who follow?
I’m sure they’ll look for cities which haven’t cancelled and align with those, rather than aligning with the ones being proactive. This smacks of poor leadership and a council happy to follow along. Maybe we can hire consultants to study the issue for three years. Remember when they claimed that declaring a climate emergency meant they’d “look at every decision through an environmental lens?” Obviously that was bunk. But it sounded good at the time. This decision should be easy, though maybe they have too much smoke in their eyes to see clearly?