Letters 2015

Letter March 9. 2015

Last week I went to see the play “The Sound of Cracking Bones” about child soldiers all over the world and how young boys, taken from their villages as pre-teens and forced to live a violent, nomadic, scavenging life, come to treat girls and women as objects to be raped, mutilated and discarded.

I read the report of the enquiry into police brutality in Ferguson, Missouri and saw how educated, comfortable men came to regard an entire group of citizens as sub human and to treat them with contempt.

I watched the documentary “India’s Daughter” and saw how young men without education, jobs or hope, rape and torture young women for fun.

On International Women’s Day I wrote to the Prime Minister and many members of Parliament calling for a National Strategy for Aboriginal peoples. Surely here in Canada at least we can find ways to combat systemic poverty; to improve both educational and employment opportunities; to guarantee adequate housing and to address the over-criminalization of aboriginal people.

Do I hold out much hope for that under the present government? Sadly, I do not.

When we vote in the next election we must choose the people who will work to ensure safety, respect and dignity for all our citizens.

Tina Agrell



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In response to the February 2015 RODC Report to Supporters, we received this letter.


Hello, Clare,

I never miss making a thorough review of RODC updates,

and I always marvel with great appreciation at how much

can be achieved by concerned citizens who ACT TOGETHER

and raise their voices in constructive ways.

While there are many reasons for the frustrations we might

feel around our political process, there is NO reason for us to

sit back, shrug our shoulders and wistfully ask, What can you do”?

RODC clearly demonstrates in so many ways what one can do,

and reinforces so effectively that democracy without its citizens

is not democracy!

I offer my sincere thanks to all of you there who toil so tirelessly

to give all of us a chance to restore the integrity to our political

process that is so urgently needed.

Sincerely,

Bob Sutton

Camlachie ON
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