Re: “Merger dialogue needs a leader,” editorial, Feb. 26.
The editorial rightly urges the province not to duck its responsibility for ensuring effective local government.
This is plain when we consider that the province asked local government to implement plans for sewage treatment that lay beyond its ability to act. The province took no steps to remedy this when it became obvious that no solution was possible.
Now the region has asked the province to do something about this inability of local government to deal with issues such as sewage that lie beyond boundaries and capability of local government. The lack of effective response to the sewage crisis suggests, as the editorial implies, that more than informal local dialogue will be needed to pressure the province to assume leadership.
John Olson
Colwood
