Vancouver Island and Taiwan are similar in size. The population of Vancouver Island is only 700,000 on its 31,000 sq km, while Taiwan's is 27 million on its 36,000 sq km. Guess which of the two is the one I am referring to in today's headline?
I guess we do have room for one or two more folks... despite the views of one of our local nimby councils which believes it must permanently cap its population at a specific number... and won't even be allowing its voters to consider any other option in the upcoming public review of their official community plan. That might be seen as censorship, or perhaps even an infringement of civil rights, in an other jurisdiction. Obviously they don't even trust their own electors to make such an important decision for themselves.
All ashore... its time to "GO".
Anyone sufficiently foolhardy to suggest constructing a bridge from the mainland to our island, is likely to receive an immediate invitation to take a long walk off a short plank over that little strip of intervening ocean, rather than waiting for a bridge.
The Federal Government did, however, manage to build one gigantic bridge at the opposite side of the country, despite the substantial local, vociferous public resistance to that one. That's the now quite famous, 12.9 km long, and very expensive, Confederation Bridge to Prince Edward Island, population only 141,000 and area only 5,600 sq km. When last I checked, this particular bridge had resulted in almost as as small a population increase as the infamous Alaskan bridge to nowhere.
But why, with all this emphasis on controlling population growth, is it that we can't figure out how to stop the population explosion of these flying poop machines, Canada geese, that are polluting our parks, lakes, golf courses and beaches... Whatever happened to shot guns?
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