Re: “Province must act on sewage-treatment project,” April 25.
The point of the article written by the CEO of the Vancouver Island Construction Association is that local jobs will be lost if the province does not overrule the democratic decision by Esquimalt council not to allow rezoning of McLoughlin Point. The association, of course, has a vested interest.
At the risk of stating the obvious, two out of the three front-running proponents pushing to build this billion-dollar boondoggle are French multinationals and only they would be able to decide who in the local economy gets any jobs.
Furthermore, if an alternate decision was made to build 10 or so decentralized smaller, tertiary treatment plants, more local construction jobs would be created, because smaller local companies would be able to compete, so the construction association would have nothing to worry about.
Tom Maler
Victoria
