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Furthering the Campaign for Worker Safety
Office of the Mayor
The City of Calgary
P.O. Box 2100, Station M
Calgary AB T2P 2M5
Dear Mayor Bronconnier,
Please accept this note as congratulations on your council’s recent submission to majority opinion, to move the City of Calgary’s smoking bylaw effective date up to January 2007. In so doing you have struck a blow for the might of the many over the will of those few private property owners who stand only for the paltry principles of minding one’s business and giving people what they want.
On this subject, no further words. It has been debated extensively in this space and others. I mention it only as a segue to another matter of equal importance, and one that I know is close to your heart, Mr. Mayor, sir.
Our roads.
Now that we have guaranteed the health of our workers and patrons in private bars, we simply and irreducibly must do the same for the users of our carriageways.
I propose—and I’m sure I have the support of the suddenly health-conscious majority—we institute a tailpipe exhaust ban on all our roads. Since we are no longer doing anything with the former 2008 smoking ban deadline, I suggest we use it as the cut-off for polluting our streets with unhealthy and carcinogenic exhaust fumes.
Mayor Bronconnier, many people make their living while driving. Don’t they deserve to work in as healthy an environment as bar staff? Surely they have just as little choice in the matter as bartenders and servers. This is without even mentioning the children who might be on or around our roads. Mayor Bronco, your honour, it’s high time someone starting thinking of the children.
Please join me in my campaign to rid Calgary of noxious pollutants on our streets. Support an exhaust ban, effective January 1, 2008.
Of course, people driving to and from bingo would be exempt.
Evan Spence
October 24, 2006
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October 26th, 2006 at 8:17 am
hows about starting smaller with an “exhaust ban at city hall” to start……it will at least slow global warming….