Editor:
A relative newcomer to the Sunshine Coast recently remarked to me how easily inclined our community tends to be towards confrontation. If a local government makes a managerial decision, it must have to do with a (still unidentified) “bias”; if the regional district decides to review the effectiveness of its advisory committee structure, heated interpersonal, regional and even intergenerational explanations appear in your letters section.
Usually the truth of the matter is that our local governments – including elected officials and staff of all ages and experience levels, and from all areas – are simply trying to work together and move forward for the community at large, beyond and even completely oblivious to the perceived rivalries, animosities and other motivations that show up in these pages. If our decisions really were made along these old dividing lines, it’d be a miracle if we ever got anywhere.
Silas White, councillor and SCRD director, Town of Gibsons
