Re: 鈥�$17M soil cleanup set to begin at Laurel Point Park;鈥� 鈥淐ancer patient denied chemotherapy because of risks where he lives,鈥� Sept. 23.
I couldn鈥檛 ignore the irony of the front page on Sunday. Here we are spending more than $20 million (鈥渆stimated cost $20 million to $25 million鈥�) of public money to remediate the earth at Laurel Point, while at the same time we cannot provide safe accommodation for a person with life-threatening cancer.
Too often, we (governments) seem to find huge sums to deal with quite technical issues while we ignore real problems that people are struggling with right now. I am sure that the $20聽million being spent on the soil remediation project will not improve the life of any person strolling the Laurel Point Park, nor any workers or patrons of the hotel, nor any of the wildlife swimming in the sea.
However, that money would make an enormous improvement in the lives of the hundreds of homeless in our city, today. Where are our priorities?
Mark Brown
Victoria
