Editor:
A public display of anger and treating others disrespectfully over the mask mandate is not OK. Treat others as you want to be treated, with love and kindness.
Businesses are mandated to enforce this rule and noncompliance may result in being shut down. The majority of businesses on the Coast are small businesses and we need to support them the best way we can in these trying times.
While there may be a hidden agenda by our government, this is not the way to fight against it. Some of the theories are that the government is trying to promote a cashless society, indebted people, making vaccines mandatory and squashing freedoms that have been mandated in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
If you wish to stand up against the government and its current regulations while supporting small businesses and a person’s right to free enterprise, it may be beneficial to think of a way that directly influences government. Take the fight to the government. Write your local MLA, protest while keeping six feet apart, use cash and speak out. Don’t fight with the business owners and staff as they are caught in this as much as you are.
Fighting oppression with oppression does not make any sense. Some of the great people that changed the destiny of the world protested in a peaceful and smart way. Let’s band together and display love, kindness and patience wherever we go these days. Be the change in the world you want to see. Do you want to be treated confrontationally in your place of employment or would you rather be treated with respect and kindness?
S.N. Peters, Gibsons
