Editor:
This word ‘synchronicity’ as an adjective, describes a recently successful festival. But, as a noun, could it not describe what is perceived to be a concentrated attack upon Gibsons’ Mayor Rowe, and some of our excellent staff?
The committee of the whole on Tuesday, Sept. 9 witnessed yet another seemingly coordinated attempt to subvert the mayor’s guidance of the process. One councillor, eventually supported by another, raised a subject under new business and questioned the mayor’s decision in the matter, taken during the August recess.
In response, the mayor read aloud an email he had sent the councillor, requesting her opinion/input; with no response until this committee meeting.
Of course, the so-called ‘GABC’ member in the gallery, sitting normally front and centre in order to possibly dominate the gallery, then demonstrably and dramatically stormed out of the chamber while shouting “out of control.”
But, she didn’t leave the site, rather waiting outside the Town hall such that she could ambush various citizens as they exited after adjournment.
Should we try to ‘connect the dots’?
The two main principals of the ‘GABC’ do not reside in Gibsons, and do not pay taxes to Gibsons.
Some others who support them on social media live in other rural areas such as Roberts Creek, Elphinstone, and West Howe Sound. But this fact does not inhibit them from castigating our council and our staff.
The point they are missing is that their local government resides at the top of Field Road in Wilson Creek, not in Gibsons.
The primary question is this: is this small group of non-resident agitators conducting a loosely coordinated campaign against the Town’s leadership; or, given that their activities have continued as a three-year effort, do they comprise a synchronized campaign?
Brian K. Sadler, Gibsons
