To the editor:
Who would have thought this could happen in British Columbia?
A rude awakening meets BC Hydro customers refusing microwave smart meters, as strong arm tactics include customer harassment, bullying and threats of power disconnection, despite continued public messages that BC Hydro will not force anyone to take a microwave meter.
The tyranny of the B.C. Liberals in partnership with BC Hydro is most cruelly experienced by people suffering from medical conditions requiring a microwave-free home environment. Medical letters of diagnosis and health-care advice form the basis of the BC Human Rights Class Action against BC Hydro to be heard in Nov. 2013.
The BC Liberals have transgressed beyond recovery, coming between doctors and their patients, forcing their unwanted microwave policies upon hundreds of our most vulnerable and defenceless citizens.
Why are our provincial leaders silent on these abuses of the rights of citizens to live peacefully in their own home, with or without doctor’s advice? This descent into dictatorship and tyranny should be a huge concern to every single citizen of Canada, no matter if they like microwave meters or not.
Since this economic policy is extremely unpopular among numerous sectors of the population, it has to be implemented by force.
The Clean Energy Act is unconstitutional; therefore, it is only through tyranny and force that the B.C. Liberals are able to implement such a risky and unpopular program. Their determination to advance this highly suspect economic policy is causing a departure from the very foundations of liberty, freedom and rights enshrined in our Canadian Constitution.
Here, now, is the fruit of unchecked capitalism in a monopoly: BC Hydro no longer has to work to keep us as customers; it can be as anti-social, undemocratic and boorish as it wants. This is tyranny at work, not democracy.
Economic policies and government agendas must be in line with our democratic and human rights and values. If they are not, it is the regime that must change, and not our Canadian Constitution and Human Rights.
Una St. Clair, executive director
Citizens for Safe Technology Society
