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Why the heck would you ask 'what decision?'
Isn't it obvious what we're talking about?
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Not really... I'm talking about a program that was always scheduled to end in the Fall. You're acting like some specific decision has recently been made to remove the stickers.
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Maybe they shouldn't have said...
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Its plain what they're saying in the article;
"It was never intended to be forever," he said.
Chief Farr and his colleague, Fire Chief Bill Stewart, told a press conference today that neither city council, nor city staff ordered the stickers removed.
Instead, the chiefs said the campaign to adorn about 170 fire trucks and 175 ambulances with yellow ribbon decals was done on their authority and would be ended on their authority, as planned, in the autumn.
I'm not going to assume they're lying here... are you?
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Why did they start it in the first place? Surely the opinions didn't get in the way then, eh?
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So... what... unless they want to do it forever, there's no point in doing it at all? Things are allowed to end on schedule... even good things.
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I know the program was supposed to end...I read the article too. But the article also talks about public influence.
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Fair enough... though if you choose to read into this portion of the article as indicating it was public pressure that ended the program rather than... the scheduled end of the program, thats your call. For now, unless other evidence surfaces, I'll choose to believe the word of the Chiefs of these emergency services.
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Just to add...if these stickers meant nothing...why the complaints from the public? In fact, why put them on in the first place?
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I sincerely don't know. I don't see how someone putting a bumper sticker on their car makes them any more supportive of Canadian soldiers. Writing letters to soldiers, sending them gift boxes, volunteering your time with veteran's associations... THAT is a way to support the troops. Putting a bumper sticker on your car and puffing up your chest about how much you 'support the troops' means nothing, to me at least.