Dear Mr. Greg Kyllo,

The BC United Caucus is completely ignoring all the causes of violence and drug addiction, choosing punishment and more violence as a solution.

Poverty, lack of housing, lack of work, intergenerational violence and trauma are all major contributors, and punishment won鈥檛 solve any of them. While 鈥渞eintegration鈥� into society is given a nod, there鈥檚 nothing in the plan to actually solve these issues. If your caucus is actually going to unite B.C., perhaps compassion and a wider and more constructive view of social issues and the community predictors of health would be useful.

Nowhere in your proposed plan is there anything that addresses the root causes of the decline in public safety. Is that because your caucus lacks the courage to address social and economic inequity? Or is it simply that sowing fear and division is an easier path to whipping up support?

As a public servant, your job should be to do the best thing for everyone, not only the wealthy, and to create a better, more just and healthy society, not one based on fear and mistrust.

Rebecca Kneen

Sorrento, B.C.

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