I read Northern Life faithfully and
occasionally I read a letter that leaves me shaking my
head.
I am starting to think your newspaper is
either ridiculing these people by publishing their opinions or
that you support racist ignorant views.
When people were discussing the franco-flag,
Northern Life printed a racist letter which claimed the flag
should fly because French people "are not immigrants while
Italians, Germans, Greeks are." Unless
one's ancestry is native, everyone's
ancestors immigrated to this country.
More recently another writer compared the
smoking bylaw to communism. This is either idiocy or ignorance.
Why would you provide a forum for either? Communism is a system
of government that controls the economy. It has absolutely
nothing to do with one's "right" to smoke.
Why is Northern Life publishing racist or
ignorant arguments on valid issues. Printing them offers a
public forum for invalid arguments on very valid
subjects.
Tammy Turchan
Sudbury
Editor's note: We don't decide whose opinions
are valid and whose are not. We let our readers do that.