Keith is a Burnaby resident with two young children who get a kick out of going to grab the daily mail from the box outside his home.
On Monday, he was glad his children weren’t home to do it.
That’s because Keith – and the rest of his Burnaby neighbourhood – received what he calls “graphic” and “explicit” anti-abortion flyers.
“[They] would have been greeted by very explicit images that should not be shown to kids,” Keith told the Burnaby NOW.
Keith checked the footage from the security cameras he had installed and they show a woman with a stack of the flyers dropping one off.
The flyers were not delivered in a sealed envelope and Keith thinks that, at the very least, they should be.
“As the pamphlets are not delivered in a sealed envelope, they often end up in the hands of children,” he said. “And the girl delivering the flyers could clearly tell we have kids by the amount of kids’ stuff around our yard. Distributing graphic images like these, which easily end up being viewed by children, should be illegal. Movies, books and games all have a rating system and packaging must be made appropriate. These images are worse, and should be provided only with a warning.”
Keith wants to warn other Burnaby parents about the flyers being delivered by hand to residents to ensure their children aren’t “exposed” to this kind of material.
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