‘Moralist’ condescension

Dear Editor:

RE: No letter of support for local hospice coming from Centre Wellington council, July 21.

In the context of the proper democratic process (which Canada still exemplifies, unlike the discordant and divisive minority rule theocracy that we are witnessing elsewhere), I resent the way this issue, essentially one of life and death, was handled.

The hospice, along with the services provided there, could very well be something the majority of constituents want.

As a long-standing resident of this community, I resent the condescension of this type of treatment, whereby the personal religious feelings of an elected official hold sway over taxpayers who have equally sound and valid reasons for feeling otherwise.

As I recall, a couple of these self-same moralists were in ideological alignment with the Bernier/Hillier faction who foolishly wanted to relax pandemic restrictions several months back, which would have been disastrous, in retrospect.

Allan Berry, Fergus