My four-year-old daughter Violet is a cancer survivor. She has a rare cancer called Langerhans Cell Histiocytosis.
It is currently in remission and we recently celebrated her one year anniversary since the end of her chemotherapy treatments.
There is always a chance that it will come back and we are praying that it doesn’t.
As she is a child who is fighting a life threatening illness, The Children’s Wish Foundation granted her a wish.
Her wish is to meet Anna and Elsa from the Disney movie Frozen. If all goes well, her wish will be granted before the New Year.
As a wish recipient, Violet agreed to be part of the TransCanada Corporation fundraising team for the Children’s Wish Foundation. The TransCanada Corporation fundraising team is 12 wonderful, generous and caring employees from TransCanada Pipelines. They named their fundraising team The Ultra-Violets.
Last Thursday was the big fundraising event called Exile Island at McMahon Stadium in Calgary.
Fourteen corporate teams, including the Ultra-Violets, competed at fun challenges for bragging rights and all of the teams had fundraised prior to the event.
Altogether, the 14 teams raised $210,000 for the Children’s Wish Foundation. That represents 21 wishes for children battling life threatening illnesses.
Violet spent the entire day with her Ultra-Violet team at the Exile Island event.
Her family tagged along.
Spending the day with these kind and caring people from TransCanada Corporation really highlighted for me the human side of the hyper-politicized pipeline debates.
It is easy to think of Keystone XL or Energy East as projects from a faceless, non-human entity.
I think that’s why it is easy for politicians and activists to say, “I don’t support that.” It’s easier to say than “I don’t support them.”
Now that I know a group of people who are the TransCanada Corporation, I better appreciate the fact that these projects are their livelihood.
These are everyday Albertans with families, mortgages, utility bills, etc. and it is just wrong for the Alberta government to not support these kind, caring and hardworking Albertans in
