Letters to the province, November 4, 2021: Legislative reform for animal protection is urgent

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Re: Fraser Valley Dairy Farm License Suspended Following Animal Cruelty Allegations

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It is time for the British Columbia government to take responsibility for animal welfare and provide animals with better protection under the law. It is time for the government to hold accountability to everyone who interacts with animals. It’s time to modernize the Cruelty to Animals Prevention Act of 1895.

Please, no more patchwork answers and relying on a “charity” with 40 agents monitoring 5,000 farms. Does anyone who read this article agree with animal abuse, cruelty, and lack of responsibility? The call for reform is not so revolutionary here. These stories appear from time to time, people are outraged, but the mosaic continues.

Premier John Horgan, Lana Popham, David Eby, please make BC Canada’s leader for animal protection through a comprehensive review of existing statutes and comprehensive legislative reform. It is time to establish an office or ministry of animal welfare.

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Jennifer Kernaghan Azizi, West Vancouver

Why do we fire our heroes?

Adrian Dix’s suggestion that Fraser and Coastal Health authorities have a pool of eventual staff available to replace healthcare workers who will be fired for not being vaccinated is an outright joke and speaks to a large part of the problem with the How COVID has been handled: a Partial presentation of the facts to achieve the desired response. This group of casuals has been overbooked, overworked, and under-resourced for months and even years.

Emergency rooms across the province have been closed, ICUs have operated at reduced capacities, surgeries and tests have been canceled and postponed, and nurses have been regularly booked into double and triple overtime due to a shortage of professionals. trained. And all this happened before thousands of health workers were fired for not being vaccinated. There isn’t a large group of casual staff waiting behind the scenes to fill these vacancies, which are now forcing countless cancellations of major surgeries and tests. The health, well-being and lives of British Columbia residents are at risk to make a point.

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I don’t know about you, but when I need medical attention, I would rather be treated by a healthcare professional, even one who is not vaccinated, than rejected due to acute staff shortages. Wake up, Mr. Dix. There are better options than laying off thousands of highly trained healthcare professionals and putting ourselves on even longer waiting lists. It is your job to find a viable solution.

Perry Coleman, Delta

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