O.K. The calls to defund the police were in line with the Black Lives Matter protests and many have suggested that it was as much of a request to transfer funding from police to social agencies dealing with poverty, homelessness, mental health etc. There is much merit in that as obviously police training is more along the lines of dealing with criminals, violent people and perhaps even emergency situations such as car accidents and the like.
Today's K-W Record has two Letters To The Editor dealing with Waterloo Region's water crisis. Neither is particularly sympathetic with those in charge due to past warnings being ignored combined with equipment breakdowns that one would think to be considered normal over time. The one warning came two decades ago from Harry Swain who wrote a report on our water system making suggestions that certainly in light of today's development freeze were right on the money. I am one of those who is quite angry to find out in hindsight that our so called INTEGRATED Urban System is nothing of the kind. In fact having a surplus of TCE (trichloroethylene) contaminated water from the Middleton Wellfield being unavailable for Kitchener-Waterloo and Elmira isn't all bad. Meanwhile there are dozens of other drinking water wells and perhaps the Region needs to share with residents as to what the other problems are.
I must also add that I am not remotely upset that there currently is a freeze on development. Funny how all the folks making money from Growth such as developers, builders, landlords, real estate are always full on in favour of Growth, Growth and more Growth. I and many others are not. Water is but one of our problems that increasing populations have brought us. Health care and sewage treatment are two others. Lets make sure BEFORE we remove the development freeze that we are not jumping from one crisis to yet another.
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