The Vancouver Sun is to be commended on turning the edition of May the 8 over to David Suzuki. David is an adornment to our community and is much deserving of his Order of Canada though I wish he hadn’t accepted in light of who, such as Alexandra Morton and others of the establishment, don’t get them because they oppose the Establishment’s rules for dissent namely that you don’t go outside the accepted circle and criticize Allan Eagleson, Brian Mulroney and that ilk.

But the Sun has done a great service and now ordinary people like you and me can understand the nature of the challenge ahead with clear thoughts on how to meet those challenges.

The question arises, however – where has the Sun been all these years? With the fight against the Kemano II project the Sun and its Siamese twin the Province fired anti Kemano II regular freelancer, the late John Massey and took the brothers two, Mark and Stephen Hume off the case. Indeed both of these first class environmentalists and superb writers have been strangely silent on the fish farms issue. In fact this explains the use of David Suzuki whose emphasis is on the whole environment, including fish farms, and is able to do the fine job he did. Others, whose opinions ought to be heard, have concentrated on one or two areas.

Having said that – The Sun has done a great community service, the caveat being that others have done likewise in total absence of media interest.

I challenge the Sun or Province to tackle the fish farm issue using more than just the Fish Farmers’ press releases as evidence.