CPR building key to our maritime history During this new year of continuing challenges on the global scene, we see another opportunity for Victoria and B.C.
to exercise some forward-looking leadership to promote the country’s, and the province’s, connections to the world.
As one whose early career aspirations were fed by recurrent visits to the MMBC, I urge widespread public and ministerial support for what is not just a cultural or tourist destination, but is an important element of sustaining B.C.’s pre-eminent role as a maritime portal to Canada, and a window on the world.
In that building, the museum would inject significant new energy and vitality into cultural attractions in the central downtown area for tourists and for residents. It would contribute significantly to the development of a cultural precinct around the shores of the Inner Harbour. Ever since the Maritime Museum of B.C. was obliged to leave its Bastion Square base in 2014, it’s been obvious to most of us that the CPR Steamship Building was the ideal venue for it.
The previous council is partially to blame. They knew the lost revenue associated with COVID would have a drastic effect on city finances and they should have cut expenses on all discretionary projects.However, it appears that this council, seemingly supported and financed by the same people and groups as the last, and following the same agenda, will do nothing to alleviate the burden to the taxpayers and will raise our taxes by nine per cent.
I realize eliminating these positions/contracts is a drop in the bucket of overall expenses, but the perception is that these are a total waste of money.Publish the salaries of Victoria’s employees The City of Victoria’s proposed 8.9 per cent tax increase is on top of an already bloated budget. It is difficult to support a position that would ignore the experience being offered by city staff, who are hired ostensibly and hopefully because of their educational and experiential background.Margaret NarainFarmer community says cull is long overdue The Peninsula and Area Agriculture Commission would like to express dissatisfaction with the methodology of the Capital Regional District’s Canada goose cull survey.
We lose hundreds of thousands of dollars each year, which over the past decades has totalled into the millions. We are monitoring for avian flu, which is carried by geese, having to destroy flocks and undergo assessments from the Canada Food and Inspection Agency. We should not have to do this, but we loathe the repercussions from yet another year of inaction from the CRD.Let’s try kindness before we start culling Re: “Finally, tough action being taken on our geese,” editorial, Jan. 20.
The editorial states: “Bizarrely, using this solution, only residents who oppose the scheme are allowed to vote on it. Those who might support it have no voice.”
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