Re: Todd Whitcombe's March 23 column "...we need more people to pay taxes for the services we want."
I have sufficient thank you.
With our current population, we've managed to have schools for our children, a first-class university, well-staffed hospital, medical clinics, a civic centre, museum, art gallery, library, a number of hotels, many restaurants, Theatre Northwest, swimming pools, hockey rinks, playing fields, shopping centres, etc.
What I don't need are 30,000 more people in cars with the accompanying traffic jams and pollution. It would be like inviting hundreds more to my favorite fishing lake or raspberry patch. Can you imagine, instead of three people fishing at Shane Lake, there were 100! Would 200 be better? Or instead of 25-50 people at the Aquatic Centre there were 500.
Is bigger better? I don`t think so.
Move to Vancouver, or Toronto or Montreal. Has anyone tried driving in Tokyo, Hong Kong or Mexico City? Most of the people there wear a mask against the pollution and many of them come here to experience our wilderness.
Would a population of 100,000 be enough? Maybe we should go for 1,000,000 or why not five million?
Thanks but no thanks. We already have it all without the crowds.
E.G. Johnson
Prince George
