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To the editor:
Over the past few years, I've been feeling as increasingly disheartened and despondent about Harper's policies as columnist Fiona Hughes and her husband have been.
However, I just got word this week of a wonderful and still very patriotic way of celebrating Canada Day on our own terms, celebrating the Canadian environment that is the environment of every person, animal, fish, and tree inhabiting this country.
A scientist on Vancouver Island and others at UBC have organized a campaign encouraging anyone who is concerned about the environment and recent developments in environmental policy to wear green on Canada Day.
My 10-year-old son and I are going to wear green on Canada Day to celebrate and commemorate Canada's remaining precious boreal forests, lakes, streams, tundra and myriad species of flora and fauna, and to protest Harper's cuts and promotion of Big Oil and transnational corporate interests that are systematically undermining and destroying what we hold dear. Let's stand up for a Canada we can believe in -a country abundant with natural beauty, a country that strives to protect our water systems, forests and diverse habitats, a country that stands for sustainability, peace, and good governance.
Fiona T. Lam, Vancouver
