Seniors being left out in cold

Dear editor: Re: Eviction day at mobile home park, Herald, A1, Oct. 1

I am ashamed to say I am a Canadian. I am so sad. What kind of world are we living in?

We have seniors and disabled people being removed from their homes with nowhere to go in the cold winter months and barely a mention in the news.

Where is the rage? Doesn’t anybody care? Just to make things a little worse now the dregs of society are going in there and actually stealing things off of their homes and lots before they have even left.

We have a Prime Minister apologizing to the Aboriginals for what happened to them years ago when they were forced off of their land.

Now the tables are turned yet no one dares to say a thing. If this was any other landlord there would be laws to protect these poor people. We are not individually responsible for what happened 100 years ago but we are for what is happening today. Have we not learned anything from our history?

Well, Mr. Fred Kruger, I don’t know how you sleep at night. If you have a family I don’t know how they can look into your eyes without feeling disappointment and being ashamed.

Our seniors are our most precious commodity. They built Canada to what it is today. They went to war for our freedom and we have turned our backs on them. Yes, Mr. Kruger, they are the ones that paved the roads that your big trucks will use to come in and bulldoze their homes, memories and lives.

They are also the ones who strung mile after mile of cable through bush and along roads and railway tracks so we could all have electricity that you use to make your coffee in the morning; phone lines so you can contact all your buddies and contractors so you can make more money and live in your fancy home.

How can this all be legal especially in this day and age? Where are all the people who rally for the dog who bit some child and has to be put down? Where are the people raising money to buy wagons for the street people and all those other “feel-good” issues?

Today I am ashamed to say I am a Canadian.

Elizabeth Kozub Vernon