Letters: Lay the blame at the feet of government

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Be it known that the Delta Hospice Society canvas mightily for years to raise sufficient funds to arrive at a time when a stand-alone facility, later named Irene Thomas Hospice, could be built with community support via funding from Deltans

Editor:

Re: Ingrid Abbott’s comment (Optimist, April 7).

Her claim that the thrift shop business has “become political” can be and ought to be laid at the feet of the provincial NDP ministry of health, in particular, the minister.

Be it known that the Delta Hospice Society canvas mightily for years to raise sufficient funds to arrive at a time when a stand-alone facility, later named Irene Thomas Hospice, could be built with community support via funding from Deltans, that followed the Constitution of the Society. Then, when the idiocy that passes for government in Ottawa, introduced Medical Assistance in Dying, [MAiD] it changed the meaning of words hospice and palliative care. With MAiD, both hospice and palliative care have been scrubbed and replaced with euthanasia, aka homicide aka murder.

True to its Constitution, Delta Hospice Society stuck to its guns and refused to roll over and play dead just because an equally ignorant provincial government was [and remains] incapable of understanding the meaning and worth of common English language words.

Bob Orrick

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