Editor:
The performative nature of Canmore’s mayor and council continues to grate, no more so than with the feeble excuses for not having fireworks to help celebrate Canada Day.
To suggest professionally controlled fireworks displays are a fire hazard is within the realm of possibility, albeit infinitesimally remote, but to suggest the Town is trying to protect the psyche of wildlife from the flash/bang noise is puerile and embarrassing.
Notwithstanding that predators continually scare the bejeezus out of their prey in their ongoing battle for life and death, Canmore’s elected employees fail to mention that the explosive noises they’re trying to protect wildlife from, can and will continue unabated whenever avalanche control is performed, when the quarrying industry on both sides of the valley use dynamite as part of its daily business, when weapons enthusiasts fire guns for hours at the gun club/shooting range at the east end of Canmore and, of course, there’s the usual thunder and lightning storms which regularly roll through the valley.
Rhetorically I’ll ask, are there discussions underway to eradicate these other sources of explosive and threatening noises affecting the lives of Bow Valley wildlife? No? I didn’t think so.
Paul Baumberg,
Dead Man’s Flats
