Pubdate: Mon, 21 Nov 2016
Source: Penticton Herald (CN BC)
Copyright: 2016 The Okanagan Valley Group of Newspapers
Contact:  http://www.pentictonherald.ca/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/664
Author: Doug Sharpe
Page: A7

OUR CHILDREN ARE WATCHING

Dear Editor: The federal government legalized euthanasia up against the 
backdrop of a rash of suicides on First Nations reserves and at a time 
when there was (and still is) no national suicide strategy or national 
palliative care strategy in place.

Now, while people are dying by the hundreds from an epidemic of opioid
drug use, the federal government marches on with their plan to
legalize marijuana.

It can't be just me. Others must see the blindness of our Members of
Parliament in Ottawa. But you know who isn't blind? Our children. They
are watching our government make these kinds of decisions and some
regrettably are believing the narratives cobbled together around the
justifications for the government's reckless actions.

And worse yet, some children will buy into the lie that suicide is
justifiable and drug use must be okay.

Because their government says so.

Thank God parents and those who will vote in 2019 are watching
too.

Doug Sharpe

Summerland
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