Letters to The Province: B.C. government failing to plan for future electricity needs

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Re: B.C. Hydro can’t deliver electricity required to meet province’s climate goals: Critic.

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Great article on B.C. Hydro shortfall on electricity supply.

What did people think would happen when our government hands out large EV rebates, heat pump rebates, no road tax on EVs, causing less road taxes, and TransLink crying for more money. To think John Horgan was going to cancel the Site C dam.

Now we read we need two more just to supply enough electricity. This was not a thought-out plan by our NDP government on future electricity needs — sorry folks, natural gas and gasoline cars are here to stay.

Hal Genzel, Delta

Housing speculation, rent hikes are most pertinent issues

Each party leader needs to immediately inform British Columbians whether he/she, if elected, will place much more effective disincentives on investor speculation in B.C.’s housing market, which makes unaffordable housing even more expensive.

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Also, will he/she maintain the current provincial rent-hike limit, which many renters need more than ever?

There’s an unprecedentedly high percentage of residents who must rent and who’ll likely never make enough money to own their home here. Yet I’ve not heard or read any mainstream news media asking the parties’ leaders these perhaps most pertinent questions.

Frank Sterle Jr., White Rock   

COVID-19 a lesson in importance of global immunization

Reflecting on the significance of vaccinations allowed me to realize that my life was directly impacted by them. When the coronavirus first hit Canada on Jan. 25, 2020, I was only 11 years old. My whole life was flipped upside down like a switch. The difference between my life and a switch was that a switch could be flipped back to “normal.” In a blink of an eye, everything I had ever known, my life’s routine, was disrupted. I wasn’t old enough to understand just how devastating the pandemic was for everyone, but I did know one thing: People were dying. What scared me the most was that I couldn’t do anything about it.

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Now that I’m older, I acknowledge that I actually can do something — we all can. We must urge our country to continue showing support for global immunization. We need to ask Canada to equip at least $720 million to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance’s 2026-30 strategy, and to continue showing support for the eradication of preventable diseases like poliomyelitis by dedicating $50 million annually to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative over the next three years.

We have all seen firsthand what viruses like COVID have done to us. We can’t let it keep happening to others.

Bernice Ko, Vancouver

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