Clean Air is just as important as clean water and heathly food. Why are we willing to compromise our air quality?

Heathly people will make a significant reduction in the lineups at our doctor's offices, walk-in clinics and hospital emergency department.

So, let's focus more on the cause of illness rather than throwing more money at a over taxed health system? Chester

I think if people were forced to cut back on the cheese burgers there would be less line ups at the doctors office. Too many over weight people.

Clean air is optional. Anyone that chooses to live in the bowl is making a choice to take some stinky air. PG has always had sawmils, bee hive burners and now pulp mills. What, are you people stupid? Clean is optional, so make a choice and quit your snivelling. Lots of people can get by with the occasional smog in, those that can't have an option. What's the big deal?

Speaking of stupid...

Not everyone has the "option" of not living in the Bowl.

Stupid.

Kids live and go to school in the Bowl.

Stupid.

Those kids develop asthma and other breathing disorders at rates far higher than the norm.

Stupid.

People who don't live in the Bowl still work in the Bowl.

Stupid.

Ya and half the kids in school are doped up with Ritalin. Blame that on the smog.
Not all schools are in the bowl.
High rates of asthma are a modern phenomena, this dispite the fact we have cleaner air and less dust and better living conditions than our ancestors. Maybe the gene pool is getting weaker, or maybe each successive generation is just weaker, but it isn't just the air. Or even mostly the air.
Lots of people find work outside the toilet.

"Lots of people can get by with the occasional smog in, those that can't have an option. What's the big deal?"

The elderly and those who have upper respiratory problems can and do have acute attacks caused by poor air quality. They have no choice where to go when they need to go to the hospital to take care of their illness, or end up in the extended care unit for the same reason.

Some of the homes for the elderly are in the downtown area - Alward Place and Simon Fraser Lodge. Now they are building a new one in the Gateway area. Hart Manor has problems, which leaves the Rainbow Park area and the Prince George Chateau. People have little choice when these places fill up. They got to go where the line up is the shortest if they need to relocate themselves where they can be looked after.

So, we are putting a significant number of people at risk, who have virtually no choice, into the same bowl with industrial pollution. Either the place where the elderly and others at risk should move, or industry should move.

Better still, if we had some more aware people in City Government, they should not allow such development in the bowl until industrial pollution is reduced by whatever way is reasonable giving due regard to many paramaters. That is what planning and zoning is all about.

The Baby Boomers have always shaped the world they want. Now they want to die in the ruins of what they created. Shut down industry, let clean air blow through, and retire to wheelchairs and sterile environments.

The next generation can bloody well wait for the Boomers to die. Hee hee!