Dear Editor:
Re: Tree bylaw should be stricter, Burnaby NOW, Letters to the editor, Dec. 11.
I think I get it - T. Wispinski thinks those who write letters are radicals, but not her because she doesn't normally do so.
She seems to think, too, that telling people what they may or may not do with their trees, on their own land, is not a radical action.
I would suggest that she buy a forested acreage if she loves trees so much. Otherwise, the home directly behind hers may not want their view blocked by her trees.
Now, I'm willing to take into consideration the possibility that their trees may be dangerous to others on the next property (say in a gale) and that discussions may be suitable or else the necessity of purchasing pricey insurance to propitiate for that possibility.
I personally think that Burnaby has moved along the socialist path far enough and it is time to respect personal property over a kind of wishy-washy politically correct communalism.
Larry Bennett, Burnaby
