Lachine will have new dog parks

Jacques Valois

Commentaire mis en ligne le 1er novembre 2008
It is fine to make political promises of setting up new dog parks but in the mean time, signs prohibiting dogs are popping up all over the Borough of Lachine. Further to this, our one an only dog park at 28th avenue and Victoria was unusable because of city work and repairs.

The only reason for prohibiting dogs in parks is to appease the aggressiveness of some of the dog haters of the borough of Lachine, nothing less nothing more. Everything else are lame excuses from the Lachine borough administration to hide their own hate of dogs and dog owners.

The is nothing responsible about prohibiting dogs in parks especially in Promenade du Père Marquette an René Levesque, both federal territories belonging to Parks Canada Agency which allows dogs on its premises. In fact the attitude of the Mayor of the borough of Lachine and his colleagues of the administration is nothing less than antisocial and undemocratic.

Dog owners pay both municipal and federal taxes to have the right to use those federal parks as much as dog haters do. Those parks were intended by the Parks Canada Agency to be used by all types of users. If the Mayor of the borough of Lachine and his colleagues of the administration cannot insure safety to all users of those federal parks as it is done throughout the country, then they should resign.

Very easy measures can be put in place to insure safety to all users of the park such as putting speed bumps at pedestrian crossings to slow down extreme cyclists who believe this is a race track. Obstacles and gates are used in other facilities over the world to slow down cyclists this would also be good solution to slow down extreme cyclists at bridge entrances.

But we can see that the Mayor of and his administration want dogs out of the federal parks and make up nay excuses to justify their antisocial and undemocratic attitude.