Hopefully An End To Street Racers in Canada

Today Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced new legislation that will outlaw street racing.

This afternoon CKNW radio host, Jon McComb, interviewed someone who was actually vehmently against this legislation. Yes, against it!

Here's the e-mail I sent to him after the interview:

It's rare that I feel so outraged that I want to throw something at the radio but that happened this afternoon during your interview with car race enthusiast, Jason Louie. My jaw virtually hit the floor when he said that Stephen Harper had no evidence to suggest that the #1 perpetrators of street racing were young men with fast cars. Oh sure, most of us have long suspected that these street racers were predominantly little old ladies from Kerrisdale who, for a little excitement, had heisted the sports cars of their grandsons! Give me a break!!

Either Mr. Louie has been kicked off every debate team he's ever been on, or he really needs new script writers to give him something with even a tiny sliver of credibility. His ridiculous assertion that Harper ought not dare bring in this common-sense policy without first engaging in endless studies is laughable. Yet sadly, countless past governments have listened to drivel just like this, in a pathetic pursuit to get more votes from one demographic group or another.

It's long overdue that all of our governments get away from the milquetoast, focus-group based policies of the past and instead take definitive steps to clean up some obvious problems in our society. They will anger some and offend others but they will clearly be respected by most.