Some committee members feel it is important that the people of Entity #42 (Fundy-Albert) know the truth – and that we had absolutely no say in the decisions being made.
We were a committee made up of people from each of the communities affected by the reform, working together to help make sure everything was going well, and to make suggestions that would assist in combining the three municipalities and Local Service District (LSD) regions into one municipality.
Some committee members feel it is important that the people of Entity #42 (Fundy-Albert) know the truth – and that we had absolutely no say in the decisions being made.
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The following letter to Honourable Mike Holland was sent to Connecting Albert County in response to articles in this issue (posted at ConnectingAlbertCounty.org/environment). We have invited Mr. Holland to reply in our March issue. Honourable Mike Holland,
Congratulations on the Government's Legacy Project of which I only recently became aware. I feel, however, that the Government has to be careful lest this initiative and the selection process relative to Protected Natural Areas be seen as based on purely political motives, rather than genuine ecological concerns. To my mind, the process itself is flawed since it mixes several different objectives and criteria which may or may not be compatible, i.e. what have culture and recreation, or indigenous reconciliation got to do with protecting biodiversity? It seems designed to permit the Government to claim, for political purposes, that the maximum amount of land has been "protected." Your announcing that Shepody Mountain would be protected long before the deadline for PNA site nominations and prior to the conclusion of the selection process lends credence to the belief that political concerns trump ecological ones. |
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