What kind of a government decides to trim spending in a ‘let’s-not-call-it-a-depression’ by cutting funding to libraries?
All my smugness about living in a highly evolved social democracy is rapidly evaporating. Surely there’s a mini-Obama in Canada somewhere.
Library use is up across the province. The Pemberton library, since moving into its new facility, saw a 70% increase in circulation in April, with 75 new members a month…
And the province is threatening to cut funding from libraries? Seriously? Is it a cunning plan to create a stupider, more compliant, less politically literate population? Is it part of an ongoing agenda to create a two-tier society of haves and have nots? Are the BC Liberals THAT offended by public spaces that not only do they want to privatise rivers, education, our railways, but they want to magic away the most democratic of public institutions – the library? Or is it just thoughtless?
If this makes you stomping mad, check out www.stopbclibrarycuts.ca.
Write to your MLA and the Premier. Let them know that literacy is not-negotiable.
