Timely warning about hazards

Your readers deserve timely warnings about a serious health hazard.

People easily could choke on deceptiveness in the recent guest opinions about municipalities’ ambitions to annex unincorporated rural areas.

Seldom does so much misinformation appear within so few paragraphs.

Rather than strengthen rural P.E.I., any involuntary annexation of unincorporated communities would achieve the opposite, being an undemocratic and hostile tax-grab by municipalities to enhance their own finances and services at the expense of rural neighbours.

Plus, how can the burden of bylaws do anything other than damage rural livelihoods and lifestyles?

Municipal representatives like to babble about the wonderful services they offer that residents of unincorporated areas sometimes exploit.

Yet I vividly recall my school teachers back in the day explaining how it’s municipalities who consistently exploit rural areas, nearby or otherwise, for labor, food, water and every possible resource while also benefiting from rural residents bringing their commerce into town.

The vague benefits that proponents of annexation (who prefer to call it amalgamation) suggest would accrue somehow to rural Islanders remain vague for a reason - because they’re non-existent, amounting to a massive zero.

Rural P.E.I. has no desire to endure plunder and added exploitation by its municipal neighbors. A more unfair and unjust concept would be difficult to imagine.

John Cairns,

Freetown