Ask yourself: Are you better off now than you were 60 minutes ago? This year, like every other, the provincial government instituted their flat tax on sleep. We understand the logic of tax-and-spend, but there’s no defence for a policy of taking an hour and handing it back six months later without a second of accrued interest.
We also question why our left-wing government fails to distinguish between the bright-eyed souls who can afford to be in the 60-minute sleep tax bracket and lethargic majority who accumulate a deeper deficit every day.
Thankfully, our provincial government is inviting us to share our thoughts on daylight time in an online survey. We urge everyone to spare five minutes today and hopefully save an hour next spring.
It’s not simply that we hope our province does away with both illogic and the bags under our eyes, it’s also about quality of life and life itself.
Traffic collision rates tend to rise after the 60-minute spring heist. Appointments are missed. Workers tend to be less productive and less careful. And, according to a study based in the United Kingdom and Germany, people experience a deterioration in life satisfaction.
We’ve stopped expecting our provincial government to give us more money but we hope they can give us something more valuable: time.
There’s an old movie where a frantic character exclaims: “Time. What is time? Swiss manufacture it. French hoard it. Americans say it is money. . . . I say time is a crook.” It’s true, and for too long, our government has been an accomplice.
We need to reach the same conclusion as China, India and Russia.
It’s time to see daylight.
And it’s time to see the end of daylight time.
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