An open letter to Abbotsford mayor and city council:
I am deeply saddened at your decision to abuse your authority and power and bully a camp of human beings who are struggling to fit into society.
The homeless you have chosen to reject are a part of your community – that very community each of you promised to help and support as our leaders.
Each of you were elected into power to do good and help those who are hurting.
Your poor decision to dump chicken manure on our homeless population only reinforces the lack of empathy and compassion for our most vulnerable.
Please educate me on how much a truckload of chicken manure goes for these days. Couldn’t that money have been put to better use? City workers’ time needed elsewhere? One can only speculate as to the level of conversation required to even suggest this solution for the lack of affordable housing.
Bravo to all of you for once again reminding us that if you’re homeless, drug-addicted or suffer from mental illness, there is no place in society for you.
Tammy Goertzen
