The Editor,
Perhaps it’s time for Port Coquitlam’s leaders to honour Terry Fox by eliminating cancer-enhancing air pollutants from its neighbourhoods.
As the city has already adopted the purpose of the Suzuki Foundation’s Blue Dot Tour — which is that every person has the right to live in a clean environment — this could be fairly easy and I believe most people would welcome a clean air bylaw.
Those who had to breathe wood smoke-polluted air from summer wild fires, and with the approaching fall and winter, many people are not looking forward being bombarded with smoke emissions from neighbouring fireplaces.
Port Coquitlam could be the first Lower Mainland municipality to initiate a bylaw that makes it illegal to pollute neighbourhood air through wood smoke or any other cancer-causing smoke. And implementing such bylaw would be a perfect way to come many steps closer to help fulfilling Terry’s dream to stamp out cancer.
Brie Oishi, Port Coquitlam
