A Victoria woman is using a federal tool accessible to every Canadian to try and force changes to what’s become an increasingly polarizing issue in the country: fireworks.
Lavinia Rojas has lived in B.C.’s capital since 1985 and said after decades of putting up with fireworks scaring pets and creating pollution and fire risk, she started filing federal e-petitions to ask Ottawa to favour modern light displays over the ones that bang, flash and smoke.
“We don’t want to take the fun away,” said Rojas, about using drone technology to create light shows in the dark night sky, rather than traditional fireworks.
Her second e-petition, which argues fireworks should be phased out over pollution and
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