Lights are on. Nobody's home.By LORRIE GOLDSTEIN
If the federal government's chattering classes could tear themselves away from the Brian Mulroney/Karlheinz Schreiber follies and Ruby Dhalla's nannygate, perhaps they could address two issues of more pressing concern for ordinary Canadians.
First, soaring gasoline prices, which appear to be ripping off drivers yet again.
Second, the looming shortage of radioactive medical isotopes necessary for the treatment of cancer and heart patients.
This prompted by the latest shut down of the 51-year-old Chalk River nuclear reactor.
First, gasoline prices.
Back in early January, 2008, when the price of oil hit $100 US a barrel for the first time, Canadians were paying about $1.05-per- litre of gas.
Yesterday, with oil at $61.05 a barrel, we were paying close to $1-per-litre.
Our question for Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the opposition parties is simple.
What the !@$#$^ is going on? Is this price-gouging?
Why are Canadians paying disproportionately far more for gasoline now than when oil prices were skyrocketing?
Pump price predictor Liberal MP Dan McTeague says motorists have been hit by a triple whammy of low refinery capacity, little competition and government inaction. He predicts prices will stay above $1-a-litre for most of the summer.
Is this true? Why? Is anyone in Ottawa monitoring prices? Is the largely toothless federal competition bureau at least investigating?
Federal politicians may have trouble believing it, but this is the sort of thing Canadians care about.
Ditto on word Canada's creaky, leaking, five-decade-old Chalk River nuclear reactor is closed for repairs -- again -- precipitating yet another crisis for patients suffering from heart ailments and cancer.
Is it true, as Dr. Jean-Luc Urbain of the Canadian Association of Nuclear Medicine told Sun Media's Greg Weston: "This is an absolute catastrophe, the worst possible scenario you could imagine"?
That over 3,000 nuclear medical scans daily needed for heart and cancer patients may have to be cancelled starting next week?
Why is it that when issues that impact on the well-being of Canadians are in play, our politicians typically go AWOL.
Do they not understand what is at stake?
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God Bless,
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