Re: “ ‘Free’ plant an insult, Esquimalt mayor says,” June 19.
The sewage debacle reminds me of the Laurel and Hardy movies, where when they were in a pickle, Stan Laurel would turn, in tears, to his partner and say: “We are in a right mess now, Ollie!”
How can the provincial government that ordered us into this fiasco now back off and leave it to the Capital Regional District, which has spent $48 million with nothing to show?
Obviously, the CRD cannot manage it efficiently. Amalgamation would be a start.
Victoria threatens to go it alone, but surely we cannot have 13 separate sewage systems. What defecates in Saanich stays in Saanich? How ridiculous is this?
Ian Buckingham
Victoria
