Editor:
Re: “Our voices don’t matter,” Letters, July 6.
W. Thompson thinks our politicians and policy makers are ignoring them. Oh dear, I’m not sorry.
I have had a number of experiences involving new arrivals who don’t want to see change and who think just because they came here, we need to pull up the drawbridge just for them. My most poignant experience with such matters was when we were holding referendums for recreational facilities decades ago. I met a brand new Coaster who organized against any new recreation facility because her taxes would be affected. No thought for the thousands of families fighting for many decades for ice rinks, pools and fitness facilities and living without them to the detriment of health and wellness. Imagine if they had won. We would have no recreation centre in Gibsons.
Her only thought was her self-interest.
We are in dire need of homes in many shapes, sizes and configurations. And we need them yesterday! If you want no change I would suggest moving somewhere else. Leave the change and growth matters to the policy people we voted for and quit trying to speak for those of us who raised families here and whose families may want to live here. If we could only find housing for them!
Donna Johansen, Gibsons
