Dear Editor,
The evolution of seniors have become a disposable commodity in British Columbia where their future lies in unaffordability and the prospect of homelessness.
Aging with dignity has become unimportant in this country because of the cost of living. Seniors’ security has been put on the wayside like a historical book that has been read many times and gathers dust in a dimly lit corner hidden in the shadows of obscurity.
British Columbia has become unaffordable, yep, “an unaffordable state of mind” except for this one point, seniors don’t forget what life is about because there are miles of living that are behind them and the rest of the world is front of them. We can afford to remember what others wish to forget.
Our country has been built on the sweat of our lives. We are the history of this country, and we are the makers of things yet to come through our generations we gave birth to.
Seniors.
British Columbia or any province or territory in this country of Canada exists, because we lived our lives to build it and now we are being placed on a waiting list to be housed, to be treated as an unimportant part of society, employed in the task of lining up for food at food banks, and we stand waiting in waiting rooms within hospitals waiting to be treated.
This country has failed to secure the future for our needs.
Seniors are the foundation of this country. It’s as simple as that.
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From young to old there is only one journey we build upon and that’s our future. There is only one wisdom that should guide this country and drive the politicians to an understanding that all of us are people of this nation, and we possess one thing in common at all ages, we all grow old and will need to be housed, to able to live and dine at our table to sustain us.
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Politicians can say they have done everything that is possible, but as you grow old, you realize that is not true. There is always one more thing that could of been done, and if one doesn’t know the answer, it will come with age. Go ask a senior.
Experience is a foundation of passing on our legacy to the people who come after us, and if you can’t house that experience within the communities where we live and feed this to the politicians and governments, we will flounder, and we will not be housed and be able feed our nation with wisdom.
Are there immediate answers to housing? Absolutely!
Are there immediate answers to affordability? Absolutely!
Are there immediate answers of how, when and where these answers can be heard? Yep!
There are answers and then there are answers, and all a politician has to do is to provide them.
I asked seniors about this and they all said, “Yep! We know this.”
Cran Campbell, Langley City
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Open letter to:
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau,
Premier David Eby,
B.C. Minister of Housing Ravi Kahlon, and
Premiers Across Canada