It’s natural for humans to be afraid, and to focus on, and even obsess about, things we’re afraid of.

I recently spent a Saturday at my South Bruce home, pruning apple trees, while listening in to a symposium on Rocky Flats, a former nuclear weapons manufacturing site that has suffered severe radioactive contamination. 

The events in the Ukraine remind us how fragile is the fabric of peace, good government, and economic stability that we’ve enjoyed for so long in Canada.

Like all great opportunities, there is a choice to be made, and like all choices, there is an element of risk.

I am proud of being a nuclear worker supporting my family, helping to get to a future with zero greenhouse gas emissions, vital medical isotopes and a better planet for everyone.

I’m writing this letter, as I’ve written all my letters, on my own time, as a volunteer, not as part of my job.

Our Council’s decision, albeit not completely in opposition groups favour, is a fair decision.

Risk is a very relative concept, and as the time of exposure extends, a low-risk event can become a statistical certainty.

A referendum is not best way to gauge public willingness, nor is 2022 the time to hold such a vote.