The Ideal Community

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The Ideal Community..almost. Some of us think about the community we live in and wonder if it is the ideal community, the best community, to raise our families and live our daily lives with safety, security, peace of mind, and has a healthy environment.

The ideal community could be an urban setting: the excitement of the city, museums, fine dining, shopping, and the night life. For others, it may be smaller communities, with quaint book shops, old cobblestone streets, exquisitely crafted churches, and a place where they actually know you by name, not a number.

But, in many communities, small or large, we do not have the safety and security of a healthy environment. Many of us live where we are assaulted by toxic emissions of deadly woodsmoke. Usually it is from an open burning. It could be from your neighbour next door who is using their outdoor wood burning fireplace or fire pit. What we do know is that woodsmoke is destroying the quality of our life. Deadly particulate matter (PM2.5) finds it ways into our homes and into our lungs attacking each of us and harming Everything around us. Our ideal community has become less than ideal. Woodsmoke is deadly and destructive.

There is only one way to bring about change. That is to ban woodsmoke in every community across Canada.

Never would you want to settle for anything less in your own community, nor would you place your children in harm's way, so why would you allow this danger from woodsmoke to take place? Take a stand now! Not only must our municipalities start to make this change, but so must we. We have a voice and our collective voices must be heard. End woodsmoke from destroying our community.