What’s Saddest Of All Is That There Are Too Few Like Him – Another Farewell To Niagara, Ontario’s Peter Kormos

What’s Saddest Off All Is That There Are Too Few Like Him – Another  Farewell To Niagara, Ontario’s Peter Kormos

A Brief Comment by Niagara At Large publisher Doug Draper

A month and a half later, it is still hard to believe that Peter Kormos left us on a late March morning at age 60.

Peter Kormos in action at Ontario Queen’s Park legislature

He was such a dynamic presence in the life of the Niagara, Ontario and the province going back as far as his days as a student activist in the 1960s, that one almost expects him to be back up on his feet tomorrow, speaking out for everyone from young people struggling to pay the costs of going to college to university, to people being thrown out of work or seniors trying to live out their lives with some dignity on a fixed income.

There have been many fine words of tribute from individuals from all walks of life since Peter’s passing and there will likely be many more this Saturday, May 11^th when a special memorial service is held for him at 1 p.m. at the Pleasantview Funeral Home and Reception Centre located near the corner of Merrittville Road and Highway 20 in Thorold. May have described the late Ontario MPP and regional councillor as a “maverick,” as a “one-of-a-kind voice for the people and a “person of principle whose like we may hardly see again.”

And that is what makes his passing even more sad.

Why should he have been so “unique” and “rare?” Why aren’t there more politicians who have the courage to speak out for their constituents? –  To place the interests of the people they represent above partisan politics?

The depressing fact that we don’t may very well explain why so many people have become cynical about politicians today and have become so turned off that barely more than half of us (and even fewer when it comes to municipal elections) bother to vote.

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