Editor:
In November 2011, the quietly positive majority of voters showed Sechelt’s best side in the Target Marine referendum. Sechelt voters backed the company in a landslide vote of 2,687 to 663.
The result was a surprise because prior to the referendum, the opponents had managed to create the impression there were more of them than was actually the case.
If this sounds familiar, it should. For the last two years, our community has seen the same types of tactics in a campaign against the Sechelt mayor and council. Many of the same people are involved, this time reinforced by some others. They appear to form a majority, but the Target Marine referendum showed that the overwhelming majority of the community was quietly positive in 2011.
On Nov. 15, this quietly positive majority of Sechelt has the opportunity to show our best side, not through a referendum, but by making positive and forward-looking choices in the municipal election.
Tracy V. Brown, Sechelt
