Editor:
Last week, a BC Hydro employee thanked me when he saw the sign telling Corix that a smart meter is not welcome at our house.
I am later to this discussion, suddenly finding out about some of the issues surrounding the introduction of this newest piece of electromagnetic hardware and the controversy around them in Europe, California, and now here in B.C.
Leaving the medical effects to the scientists and health professionals, the one consequence that I personally hadn't become conscious of is that so many decent people are losing their jobs.
The BC Hydro worker jarred my own mindset, and put it in really basic human terms.
Thousands of people, who are doing a perfectly good job will no longer be needed. When did getting rid of people become fashionable? Is this what our province needs? Who benefits in all this?
Planned obsolescence is commonplace in production, but a plan that eliminates jobs for regular working people - us - should require some public debate before its implementation.
And to be replaced by these potentially dangerous machines gives us more cause to suspect the motives and the mindset of our politicians and leaders.
Deanne Mineau
Sechelt
