When the Minister of the Environment asked for my input as part of a public consultation process concerning National Park issues, I understood that my response would be processed by civil servants. These people are competent and capable as well as governed by rules protecting my privacy.

I was outraged to discover that MLA Linda Larsen, an outspoken opponent of a National Park, is going to turn over the information I sent to the government to her hand picked cohorts. The names of these people are to be kept secret. Larsen tells us to trust her. Why would we trust her when she has refused to represent the majority of her constituents on the National Park issue? Will the information we submitted for the ‘intentions paper’ be “summarized” in my neighbours’ living rooms? the local coffee shop?

Larsen herself seems incapable of ‘summarizing’ the years of hard work by competent professionals that convinced the rest of us to support a National Park. How can she be competent to choose others capable of accurate summarizing? Environment Minister Mary Polak has the staff to do the job properly.

I put my trust in them.
Marion Boyd