Waugh? Interesting? Well, interesting in that it is long on complaints, but very short on solutions, and that he'd live so long with such a strategy, well, yes, that is interesting.

But what exactly is he saying? He's saying, "forget it, it won't happen" and he's implying that this has ruined his day, but I'll tell you, if he were to come up with a brilliant plan whereby this little village of 2000 could suddenly windfall eighty million dollars short of housing an evil scientist's lair, hey, then let's get some conversation happening! But no, he's not. He jus' in a bad widdle mood 'cause his mommy won' div 'im a new swew-a fo' free po' chil', and I really don't find that very interesting at all, but that's just me, and everyone knows that I'm a few clicks off of being a Tara-ist myself ;)

We already have solutions on the table, yet it amazes me, it truly astounds me really, but nobody wants to even talk about them, not here, not in the Sun-Times, not on the CFOS, nowhere. Sewer sewer sewer goes the mantra, one-track like the monotone single-track single-basket thinking which that two-centuries-old technology represents.

Waugh needs to wake up. We're not the only community on this planet with water issues and short on cash, we're not even the only community on this planet with imagined water issues, so why aren't we taking that as our starting point and instead of forever wailing at the government wall for handouts and wringing our hands for cavalry rescues? Why don't we just step up to the plate and do something about it?

More than editorial ink, that is.

For example, what truly was so blasphemously evil about my suggestion to host a world-summit conference on the issues of small-scale waste-water safety technologies? I've seen world-class Linux-fests put on for less than $30,000, to flog another dead horse, so where is the impetus and where is the initiative in those agitprop words of Waugh's to actually do something about his precious predicament?

why, no where, mon frèrè, nowhere like the hair on Fred Astaire.

There, I feel better now ;)

Here is is what I cannot figure out and it irks me to no end that I cannot, even in a non sarcastic way, relay to the world that there is something really wrong here.
All of of us moved here from somewhere, for whatever reason.
I moved here from a place that had a lower tax rate per than what I am paying now. Fine...
For the last gawd knows how many years tax base in the ( whatever) of Sauble Beach has been the envy of all the municipalities around it. All those cottages and businesses, year after year paying into the coffers.
YET
Other municipalities have had less of a tax base and over the years have biult and maintained an infrastructure (roads sewers garbage bridges)
Yet, and the old horse is being whippeed again, My kids don't even have a side walk to walk on to avoid getting hit by the snowplough which comes around once every 24 hours.
I can't wrap the brain around this. for a hundred years the infrastrcture in "Amabel" has not changed. The taxes are higher than other communities which have over a hundred years have biult and maintained an infrastructure. And continue to try and maintain the services to which it residents are accustomed

So here we are here, there has never been any services,despite higher revenues.
As compared to our nieghbours with less people, smaller tax base, and yet they have biult, maintained and expanded.
If money has been spent on something here over the years, let me know where I am wrong with my reasoning.
If someone with more resources to it could find out how much government money goes into supplying service to one of those 200 acres developments which pop up overnight south of here, and shelburne is the closest example, let me know if 80 million covers the bill.