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Much more and much worse
Letter to the Editor
It’s important to recognize the Jumbo Glacier Resort municipality’s money grab for what it really is. This is not just the run-of-the-mill waste of tax-dollars that we all take for granted as the status quo with our semi-competent governments and their bureaucracies. This is much more and much worse than that.
The BC Liberal government has arbitrarily created a vacuous facade of local government, which they are blatantly using to transfer much-needed public money to serve the highly unpopular, greedy agenda of a private corporation through publicly paid, private appointees who are acting as accountable elected officials, which they are not.
This is shameless political farce and corruption of breath-taking gall. In Canada we elect those who hold political office – they are not appointed by anyone. They answer to us through the ballot box and they spend our money according to a budget for which they are held accountable to us through the ballot box.
This farce of a council is nothing of the sort. It is an absolute disgrace and an abuse of the most fundamental values of our society. They are impostors taking a public paycheque. They do not even have the token vote of a single resident to give them the slightest shred of respectable legitimacy. They were not elected for their principled positions or opinions, they were hand-selected and appointed for their lap-dog compliance. Let’s not even pretend that anyone opposed to the corporate agenda behind the political facade was ever considered for the “job.”
This fake council and those who put them there spit upon the very essence of our democracy with every fake meeting and every fake motion, and now with this fake budget. Let’s get one thing clear – this issue is not about being for or against Jumbo Resort. This is about being for or against the fundamental principles for which Canadians fought and died. Those very principles are the torch handed us to hold high. Here in our heartland communities is where we do that before we ever take it to distant lands.
If supporting the development of the Jumbo Resort means selling out Canadian democracy then the shameful cost is far greater than a mere $1.2 million. We should not pay that price, it’s just far too high.
Chris Conway,
Radium Hot Springs
