Re: City of North Van mayor blasts Metro Vancouver over sewage plant fiasco
Dear Editor,
Metro Vancouver has now composted the North Shore’s request for balanced regional cost sharing on the sewage plant debacle, instead dine and dashing the bill for their gross project mismanagement onto North Shore households to the tune of over $21,000 - each - and eviscerating affordability aspirations for local housing and rentals.
Since that level of government clearly lacks the ethical capacity to make the right choices, it’s time to ask why the federal government has so far refused to step up and do so instead.
After all, the original plant was moved so the federal government could give the land back to the Squamish Nation to build and sell oceanfront housing, as a gesture of reconciliation and Crown Honour.
A grand and noble move perhaps, but also a choice. And those who make major choices on our behalf should accept major responsibility for them; especially when subordinate levels of government prove incapable of standing behind their words and actions.
Hopefully our MP Jonathan Wilkinson, a key advocate for the project, will choose the opposite path, and reinforce the Honour of the Crown.
Ryan Benson,
North Vancouver
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