Monday, December 18, 2006

Sustainability is fairness, truth, and respecting the rights of others. I want to tell people that the Canadian Justice System should be a model for the rest of the world. For example, In case of Mr. Arar, an ordinary Canadian citizen- an inquiry was launched to determine who was responsible for doing injustice to him. In the fall-out of the inquiry, the RCMP Commissioner resigned from his position. This is justice, truth was accepted by the Canadian Government and RCMP for an ordinary Canadian citizen. This is Sustainability.

Different companies in Canada are exploiting the labour force. The companies are not looking after their workers-the workers do not get any medical /dental coverage, and are paid the minimum wages in Ontario ($7.75/Hr). On the other hand, due to the hard work of the labour force, the companies are making millions of dollars on annual basis. The workers deserve better treatment, that is they should get better wages and medical/dental coverage. If a company is making $5 million annually in profit-the workers should get at least a million dollars in bonus on annual basis. The owner will be left with four million dollars which still is too much for him. The owner of the company can use part of the money for upgrading his company and part of it can be saved or invested. The Government should take an initiative to improve the economic status of the Canadian labour force. The compnay owners are getting richer and richer with every passing year and the workers are getting in-debt with every passing day. It will result in unsustainable societies.

Those companies which are responsible for doing pollution, they should pay pollution tax. The pollution tax collected by the government should be used for cleaning the environment. Pollution tax will also make the companies more responsible towards keeping the environment clean. This initiative is a part of sustainability.

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