BC FORUM Members in Action!

Sent by BC FORUM member Val McWilliams
to the Victoria Times Colonist on Sept. 27/09

Dear Editor:

Tommy Douglas once said "Courage my friends, 'tis not too late to build a better world..."

I wonder if he ever envisaged a Canada where his better world would be reduced to a case where a Kamloops senior, suffering a debilitating medical condition, would have to travel by Handidart to the local hospital for a weekly bath because her home care has been cut back and she will no longer have a worker to assist her with bathing at home.

A woman living below the poverty line, frail, elderly and who needs lots of time even for something as simple as dressing herself, now will have to dress and undress twice in the one day in order to save a few pennies for a government who thinks nothing of wasting millions on a two week party in 2010.

Can there possibly be any action on the part of overpaid number-crunchers more shameful than this?

Yours sincerely,
Val McWilliams
Victoria, BC