As of March 2005, the Canadian Association of
Food Banks estimates there are 13,800 people in Greater Sudbury
who have to beg for food-more than 10 percent of the population
of Greater Sudbury. And that does not count the people who are
too proud to ask for help!
A 2002 poverty report indicated that as many
as one in four children live in poverty. That information is
three years old and for that period, the same people have been
in charge of the city.
During that time city, CAO Mark Mieto
received a raise; city managers are paid to take early
retirement and stay at home; we have a dysfunctional hospital;
Science North gets more funding, and on and on and on and
on.
All that misguided money could have made a
lot of people, who have no other choice, warm and
well-fed.
I suggest, council, instead of pleading with
strongly worded letters (to the federal and provincial
government) to keep the homeless operations going, send the
bills to members of the $100,000 public employees club, and
anybody else who kissed up to Mike Harris for funding during
the 1990s.
They can easily cover the tab out of their
well-lined pockets. They are guilty of allowing this condition
to fester into the ugly monster it is.
Bob Daigle