To the Editor,
Regarding your editorial, What if Amazon Wanted to Set Up Shop at CFB Trenton? (Aug 5, 2021).
Is this a stunning thought? We think not, given the rationale so well expressed in your editorial regarding the potential deal between the Department of National Defence and TC Energy. You write: “I really don’t like the precedent that would be set by opening up our military bases for corporations to set up shop and earn outrageous profits.” Neither do we. It’s abhorrent.
As you explain, in Meaford the land was “taken from good citizens in order to build a military base ‘for the greater good’, and now the government that took that land wants to option it out to profit-making corporations? I find the very concept revolting.” And so do we.
Meaford is fortunate to have a voice that reminds us of the history of the expropriation of productive farmland. That what is now the Fourth Division Training Centre needed the land in the past is historical fact remembered by families who live here and were directly affected by it. It was no small sacrifice.
We too are “offended that our military and our federal government would even entertain allowing for-profit activities on land that is collectively ours, land that was taken for the purpose of national security, not to benefit shareholders.”
Thank you Stephen for a fine editorial.
Respectfully,
Roland and Rosemary Gosselin, The Town of the Blue Mountains
