In her front page column today, Luisa D’Amato tells us: “This is not time to take funds away from the police”. She goes on to make a few rather obvious observations about the growing crime rate in Waterloo Region and then asks: “So should we save $29.3 Million by removing 216 officers… Of course not.” Wow. Maybe her next column will tell us about what direction the sun rises in the morning. O.K. maybe I’m being a bit harsh – but c’mon. She points to a website: https://reallocatewr.ca/ that has “specific proposals” for this $29.3 Million. Well, I dropped over to that site and contrary to what Ms D’Amato suggests, “specific proposals” it does not have. Unless you want to consider a laundry list like: “The allocation of space and resources for the establishment of a regional Indigenous Friendship Centre” – no costing of this IFC of course, and “invest in community-led food security farm and garden programs”, and “BIPOC-led recreation and leisure programming, camps, sports, etc.” and (Hey wait a minute, isn’t hiring based on race illegal in Canada? I guess that small fact doesn’t matter to them), and “Providing BIPOC-owned businesses with access to regional commercial property” and (Hey wait a minute, isn’t rentals based on race illegal in Canada?) and – forget it. And these guys want less cops but want to spend my tax dollars. Next!!!
