Considering past good works, one moment of right or wrong action should be forgiven
To the Expositor:
Re: Greg Young letter
Thanks to Greg for his letter last week. It got me a pondering and a thinking about things. May I please add some thoughts as well.
The world and time continues on. Yesterday’s teens are today’s seniors. The gasoline engine replaced the horses and on and on. Paperless communication has replaced the old world of paper communication. Stephen Harper didn’t cause this to happen. He has just been given an insignificant period of time to mess around with it. The challenge is to determine how to make the phasing in process of the transitions smooth and beneficial to all in each change.
People and their influence on the politicians remain constant. Those with numbers and money, plus the political, will always receive attention.
As for our local dentist, certain things need notice. Public servants (professionals) are either paid by the government or act as private individuals with no government support, thus having more freedom to decision make, however, at the same time have less financial security. All professional people tend to carve out their own clientele one way or another. They need a life. That’s why we have emergency centres. Public servants, like the rest of the world, have the rights of a democracy—to voice their opinions. If the list of benevolent things this doctor has done in his area were revealed, his one moment of right or wrong action to a situation, which he believes will ruin the aesthetic value of Manitoulin, would be forgiven. Just call him some night in pain, pro or anti windmills, and let me know how you were treated.
Thanks to our local politicians for your efforts on our behalf. Even if you don’t always succeed, remember what really counts—you tried!
Norm Morrell
Evansville
