The technocrat bureaucrats and their elected assistants in Central Saanich are fervently pushing a multi-million-dollar project to build a new palace for their expanding empire in a hay field on Hovey Road.
The plan as presented is far from complete. Even the architect for the project admits the drawings are conceptual, and the final form for any of the proposals is not determined. Yet, somehow, from their pie-in-the-sky plans, they have a cost to build the project (a cost that does not include any cost associated with the civil action over their expropriation of the land).
The previous owners had plans to build housing for seniors, a need the municipal staff and council repeatedly remind us of and use as a hammer to force other developments in unwanted areas, yet for some reason, a new structure for the municipal empire is more important than seniors housing.
We, the people, need to take a serious look at how our respective councils are increasingly distancing themselves from the electorate. Time for we the people to take back our governance (at all levels) and return to the democracy as we are told we live in.
We need to collectively stand up and say 'No' to our government officials imposing their rule on us.
Norm Ryder
Central Saanich
