The Editor,
Re. “Burquitlam project one step away” (The Tri-City News, June 3).
A letter to Coquitlam’s mayor and councillors:
It is a complex world we live in — population growth, immigration waves, real estate bubbles, unemployment, housing shortages, job security, pollution, traffic, noise, economic cycles, energy supply, food shortages, financial crisis, organized crime, poverty, mental health, educational failure and so on. And It is clear that governments have a difficult job to do, a job that requires difficult trade-offs.
The problem is that you appear to believe that some of these issues can be resolved by a set of architectural eyesores, a couple of basketball courts and the planting of apple trees.
We can’t predict the weather a week from now and yet you make proclamations for “the common good” without consideration of the first principle of democratic governance: do no harm.
The lack of humility that is being displayed by you before the citizens of Coquitlam staggers me.
Michael Baumann, Coquitlam
