Stop Canadian Lightstation De-staffing

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We wish to express our extreme disapproval of the governments renewed attempt to de-staff Lightstations on the BC and Newfoundland and Labrador Coasts. We firmly believe that the services of Lightkeepers cannot be replaced by automated equipment. We demand the retention of these public servants, who provide the eyes and ears along the coast, helping to keep our mariners and aviators safe.

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  • Steve Bergh
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    • Keep them staffed
  • Mike Higgins
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    • The government burned our heritage and marine safety net in the past, don't let them do it again
  • serge pare
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    • saving boaters
  • Robert D. Wilson
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  • Lynn Hauer
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    • The users strongly oppose de-staffing.
  • Joanne Tiglmann
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    • save our lightstations, keep our waters safe
  • Dale Boulard
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    • Keep these essential services along Canada's coastal waters
  • Leslie Williamson
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    • Lightkeepers save lives...stop de-staffing
  • Luann Ostroski
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    • please continue to staff your lighthouses. not only do they assist boaters in trouble they are also the eyes on the water for illegal immigrants entering Canada. No, they cannot watch every inch but every little bit does help
  • Roger Williamson
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    • Lightkeepers play key role in marine and aviation safety they simply can't be replaced by automated equipment
  • Michele MacLeay
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    • Far too many things are being automated, usually providing less service to the general public. Let's not let the lighthouses become one of them!
  • Al Dodd
  • Lee LaRose
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    • We need the lights
  • gerald LaRose
  • Gayle McMillan
  • Jerry Etzkorn
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    • Keep the Lightkeepers. Make better use of this incredible resource. They can do even more for the public and the Government.
  • Sylvia Hacking
  • Jane Bouma
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    • The lighthouse keepers are life savers. We have a great debt to them for keeping the mariners safe and providing assistance in emergencies. Please do not destaff the lighthouses, we need these people on site 24/7.
  • Yvonne Pronovost
  • Sylvia Harron
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    • Don't lose this irreplaceble public resource & network of safety-environmental-national heritage significance.
  • Gorden Schweers
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    • We went through all of this in the year 1998. The meetings held on the Coast by Coast Guard brought a halt to the destaffing. Todays bureaucrats have dismissed the taxpayers for their own agendas. We live in a democracy. Coast Guard has recently spent 15 million upgrading the light house infrastructure. Now they intend to follow a policy of scorched earth, destaff and destroy. We are in a recession. They have hundreds of millions of dollars to hand to the autosector in Ontario but not a penny to keep the civil service fuctional. This issue shows all of Canada what type of a country we will have if the bureaucrats get to make and enforce public policy. This must be stopped and a royal commission started to make a complete overhaul of the upper echelon.
  • Eloise Bernhard
  • Mike Robinson
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    • There are plenty of ways to save money without risking lives or sovereignty.
  • Arlene Elphicke
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    • This is a vital part of service to all mariners and I believe it should not be discontinued. There is no replacement for PEOPLE at these stations.
  • Kyle Zacharuk
  • Doug Thorne
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    • When was the last time you heard about an automated machine save a life. May I suggest the goverment be more creativ e and find another way to save money without putting lives at stake!
  • Steve Robinson
  • Katharine E. Robinson
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    • we are watching the world turn with no hands at all....who you gonna call?
  • Paul Mohapel
  • Jennifer Fletcher
  • Robert Prodeahl
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    • Please keep lighthouses Manned...
  • Josh Adrich
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    • Tell me how a computer would be able to assist in a life or death situation where a real ife keeper could assist in last min weather changes to the rescue ships and air support. a real ife keeper could also assist over the radieo in the case the peoples in trouble are no longer able to talk on there raideo. come on people it has worked for so many years why fix something that is not broken
  • John Morris
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    • Anyone working in the air or on the waters of the BC coastline knows that human lightkeepers help keep the coast safe.
  • Katia Michel
  • Tyler Farr
  • Auralia Brooke
  • Adam Thompson
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  • Kelly Morris
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    • we must keep our light houses staffed!
  • Mary E Wilson
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    • We are a coastal nation. When you are far away from the coasts in Ottawa, please remember that and keep our lights staffed.
  • Nicola Dakers
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    • De-staffing lighthouses is like de-staffing police stations. Another brilliant move by the New Conservatives.
  • F.D. McMurray
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    • Get rid of some of the paper pushers instead. You now have more people in the offices than in the field. In the 1970's the ship crews alone out numbered the office staff. I don't think there are any fewer miles of coastline now than then, and I know the work load hasn't shrunk appreciably, but the crews definitely have.
  • Jonathan Chesley
  • Bernice
  • Julie Higginson
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    • light staff are vital for marine safety
  • Gordon Jenkins
  • Valerie McMurray
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    • essential services, too bad the policy makers don't seem to have a dictionary!
  • John Wright
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    • Lighthouses are a beacon of humanity, I want a human in them.
  • Danielle Mackinnon
  • Tom Johnston
  • Samuel Smith
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