CLC isn't stepping up
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Updated: November 09, 2009 2:21 PM
Editor:
So, the CLC yet again backs out of a public opportunity to defend their ‘no position’.
Let’s take a quick count;
1) They backed out of a debate when the JCI Group offered to host a forum…this is a group of younger community leaders with considerable experience and a respected record of holding forums.
2) Then the CLC was presented with an opportunity to be a delegation before City Council on November 2, 2009, the same meeting when the YES to Opportunity Campaign and the East Hill Landowners were presenting to Council. The CLC refused to show for that opportunity, professing that their Vice President couldn’t make it and on the Thursday before the council meeting the President had a ‘vision’ that she would be too sick on the Monday night to attend. Perhaps they wanted to dodge any questions Members of Council may have had.
3) Now the Kootenay News Advertiser has offered to host a forum, which Tanya Laing Gahr of Koocanusa Publications Inc. would moderate. The CLC say they won’t attend a forum that would have representation from the identified groups with an interest regarding the East Hill referendum. Those groups would be the City of Cranbrook (their referendum), the CLC (their opposition position), the YES to Opportunity Committee (their supportive position) and the Landowners (obviously, their land), oh yeah, the CLC doesn’t want Tanya to moderate because she has an ‘undeclared’ opinion on the East Hill referendum!
Perhaps the reality is that the CLC is comfortable spreading their information when there is no one present to challenge their ‘questionable version’ of the East Hill Boundary Extension.
Please consider all of this as you make your decision about Cranbrook’s future. I encourage to get out and vote YES on November 14th.
Ross Priest,
Cranbrook
