Editor:
This is not a letter about The George. It is not about a conference centre either. Nor is it about water, views, the economy or condo-plexes.
I will not discuss the overarching global meltdown rhetoric in this letter. These and the other 18 (or 30?) related issues that have clogged our community hive mind are naught but a muddle to distract and co-opt our potential.
This community has lots of potential. There is no shortage of developer plans banging on the floodgates for their chance to take root. The Sunshine Coast has been discovered as an easy mark. The mayhem that has ensued is destroying the very fabric of what makes it so special here.
Up until so recently, our representatives would demand a satisfactory answer to the question: “What's in it for the community?" before development plans were allowed to proceed. Now we have lost our community gatekeepers to the mighty self-serving corporate interests and their Trojan horses.
The local residents allowed this to happen by not showing up at the polls in the last election. Yes, you did not.
We need to return to our posts and take responsibility for steering the way things develop in our community. So I would like to invite you, all of you, to quit sniveling and get your courageous sides back out on our streets while they are still our streets.
Steve Dieter, Gibsons
