The Editor,
I want PoCo council to be a winning team in the rugby sevens.
It just doesn’t make sense playing only six players mid-season. Every player adds to the synergy that makes up winning teams. A team with synergy wins because it plays above its numbers in harmony, unified in the diversity and strengths of each player’s skills.
Coun. Laura Dupont was selected number one overall in the player draft in the last election. To sideline such a player just does not make sense. It is doubly so when the citizens of the city, who drafted her number one, do not know the details of the yellow card.
It was an unusual and harsh yellow card. It was not a suspension of two or even 10 minutes but it silences her for the whole season from usual positions she plays in the game.
Let’s get this team back together and get the synergy of good governance in place in our game again. Laura Dupont has been a smart strong player for us, and now an example of intellectual humility in her apology to council.
Dupont has said “the censure and sanctions are extremely heavy handed” and “I think if the community knew the details of this, they would be surprised.”
It is time for reconciliation and for every council member to also show their intellectual humility and get this team back together playing as a winning team with synergy.
Please be open and transparent. Surprise us with the details.
Bill Willson
Port Coquitlam
