Use carbon tax to buy water bombers
I read in the mainstream news that Greece is buying seven Canadian made De Havilland DHC-515 Water Bombers, which cost approximately $392 million each to cope with their global warming fire hazard.
These De Havilland Water Bombers are very effective machines and with early detection can kill a forest fire before it gets a firm hold.
Greece is about one seventh of the size of British Columbia.
Our governments are constantly using forest fires as one of the reasons for the carbon tax which comes to about $22 billion a year which would buy approximately 56 of these airplanes.
I could feel a little better about the carbon tax if all of this year’s money went to buy 56 water bombers to be placed strategically across Canada.
Meanwhile the governments are screaming “the sky is falling and we must force the end of using cars” in this vast, very rural country we live in.
Stopping the forest fires would do a lot more for the well being of Canada and lowering Canada’s already low carbon emissions (1.4 per cent of the world’s total emissions) than trying to buy votes with carbon tax money.
It is time our governments woke up and did preparation for weather changes, such as forest fires, instead of blaming and punishing our citizens while spending billions of taxpayer dollars creating large governments.
The success of mankind is our ability to adapt and invent.
We don’t need governments capitalizing on spreading fear instead of pragmatic decisions.
John Money
Duncan,