We deserve to know why bylaws ignored
The question isn’t whether our bylaws mean anything, it is whether our regional directors are willing to enforce them. One cannot expect the province to enforce the Local Government Act without input from the local government.
Our CVRD won a precedent setting case (CVRD vs Norton) that was described by the Environmental Law Society as “brilliant”. Legally, the Shawnigan “dirty-dirt” case was close enough to request a legal review. CVRD registered this with the BC Supreme Court in 2013 and then did not act on the case.
You are quite correct in stating this could happen again. The public deserves to know what happened and when. There is a difference in being aware of the past and extracting revenge. We cannot pretend that there is no contaminated soil at Stebbings Road, but we deserve to know why our bylaws were ignored as well as the reasoning behind the failure to take the registered case forward. Only then can we begin the task of ensuring this will not happen again.
Lavonne Huneck
Cobble Hill