Compliments to Paul Schneidereit on his Feb. 20 column, “Mother Canada statue still wrongheaded idea in wrong location.” That this idea is still alive is regrettable, to say the least.
We humans are inexorably, bit by bit, destroying the natural environment and the beauty and enchantment it represents in its own right. That, in the present instance, we are talking about an internationally noted park is doubly regrettable.
Also, sadly, to be deplored is the frequent intimation made that those opposing what is, in effect, the location of a statue, not the idea of a statue itself, are failing to honour our war dead. Nothing is further from the truth. And it beggars belief that a suitable location for a statue outside the Cape Breton Highlands National Park cannot be found.
David Blackwell, Eastern Passage
