Agenda 21 and Rural NB
Rural New Brunswick is under siege these days. Rural hospitals , along with other services, have been closed or downsized all over the province.
During my recent stay at the much reviled Waterville Hospital, which was supposedly built to consolidate regional health care so as to be “sustainable” (that meaningless word so beloved of our government!) I was disgusted to find that even that new and expensive state of the art facility was understaffed, under-utilized and full of demoralized staff.
Twinning the Trans Canada Highway may mean you can get across the province faster, but it was the death blow to many rural communities and businesses.
Services are being cut, rural roads aren’t maintained, Perth-Andover has been turned into a big flood zone and the government pays big money to pay self-proclaimed supposed expert consultants to tell us how we need to “get with the program and move to the cities.”
Have you wondered why terms like “sustainability” and “smart growth” and “high density urban mixed use development” have become so prevalent these days?
Just a few years ago we’d never heard of them, and now everything seems to be about these concepts. Every town, county, province, state and country in the world is embracing these ideas.
Agenda 21-Sustainable Development is the action plan implemented worldwide to inventory and control all land, water, minerals, plants, animals, construction, production, energy, education, information and all human beings in the world.
Most of us have heard of sustainable development, but most of us are still not fully aware of Agenda 21.
In a nutshell, the plan calls for governments to take control of all land use and not leave any decision making in the hands of private property owners.
It is assumed that us common people are not good stewards of our land and the government will do a better job if it is in control.
Individual rights in general are to give way to the needs of communities as determined by the government. Furthermore, people should be rounded up off the land and packed into human settlements, or islands of human habitation close to employment centres and transportation.
What is going on in rural NB at this time with all the government sanctions against us and lack of support for our rural communities sure looks like the beginning of the implementation of Agenda 21 in New Brunswick to me!
Stephanie Kelley
