Shawnigan Lake residents deserve answers to the following questions:
1. Why did the CVRD file a lawsuit and then hold it in abeyance from October 2013 to June 2015? Who made this decision? When? Who approved reactivating the lawsuit? What did this cost the taxpayer?
2. Why, and on what date, did the Ministry of Environment issue the permit that was in contravention of the Local Government Act and who approved it? How many tons of contaminated soil were deposited between October 2013 and March 2016?
3. Why, meantime, did the CVRD give Shawnigan Ratepayers Association $400 to help with their failed lawsuit when the CVRD had the authority to stop the deposition of contaminated soil?
4. Are we now expected to use our property taxes or privately raised funds to hire our own lawyers to ensure various enactments and authorities given to us, by law, are respected by the various levels of our government? Is this the new normal?
Lavonne Huneck
Shawnigan Lake