Use one of these to get yourself into the testing lab. And
bone up on your 14th Century French.
Wait a minute.
What?! Wasn’t that what they told you before boarding Pan Am flight 22 to
Mexico? And now… Canada? Yes, Canada. Reports just out say lead levels in the water
of some cities in Quebec and out west in Saskatchewan have levels that make
Flint, Michigan relatively pure as Perrier.
Well, you may say,
Canada has stricter purity standards than most US locales. Not true. Oh,
but at least in Canada, they have strong government agencies that find out
about stuff like this and get it fixed. Same answer.
These high levels of
lead were discovered by two groups of public enemies, the press and the
universities. We all know both are tools of the Great Communist
Conspiracy to overthrow the American and Canadian forms of freedom-loving,
individual-based independent lifestyles.
Yes, journalists.
Professors. Scholar athletes, hard-drinking undergrads. All those Big Brains
poring over thousands of pages of statistics.
All those cheery undergrads going house to house, asking strangers to
give them a glass of water, then pouring it into sterile glass bottles and
toting it off to a secret lab in Montreal where the passwords are all in Early
French and the knocks on doors are Morse Code for SOS.
Water safety experts in
Canada say they’re surprised. Well, boys and girls, just what do you do
with your job time? We know what you don’t do: check water safety.
Let’s be Springwater
clear. The problem as reported is bad. But it’s not so bad that drinking and
bathing will give you enough lead protection to immunize you against atomic
radiation.
And while the studies
were mostly made in Montreal in the east and Regina (pronounced re-JYNA’) in
the west, they weren’t limited to those cities. Along the banks of Lake
Ontario… some of the water had so much metal, if it were iron, you could cause
a surfer’s wave by using a magnet.
This story raises some
important questions, some of them serious. Here are a few:
-Why is beer in both
Mexico and Canada purer than tap water?
-Does brewing with
alcohol kill the bad stuff in the water?
-What is the rate of
lead poisoning among Canadians?
-Is lead in the water
worse than having water you can set on fire as they do in the Pennsylvania
fracking belt?
-Why are some water
suppliers doing no tests, as the AP reports?
A great many people from
the United States were perusing homes in Canada in anticipation that the
madness that’s gripped this country may force us to move. Maybe we should
consider Costa Rica. There are no problems getting through our Great Wall, as
long as we’re traveling south.
I’m Wes Richards. My
opinions are my own but you’re welcome to them. ®
Comments? Please
send to wesrichards@gmail.com
© WJR 2019
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