Editor: Re: Now is the time to speak, letter to the editor, Aug. 16 I know this is a late response to Peter Malim's letter, but I have been away and not able to read the paper.
It wasn't the anti-development attitude in his letter that caught my attention, but rather the quite divisive opening line. Malim implies the entire municipal council is from North Delta, and hat has caused this decision on the Southlands. As far as I understand, three of the councillors live in North Delta (Scott Hamilton, Jeannie Kanakos and Bruce McDonald). With Hamilton on a leave of absence (don't get me started on that!), that leaves two. The other three are from the South Delta area. Even with Mayor Lois Jackson being from North Delta, that certainly doesn't tip the balance towards the north end, it just evens the playing field.
And even if all six councillors were from the north end, so what? They are elected by the entire population of Delta, to represent the entire population of Delta. If they don't do the job they are elected to do, then we as residents have an opportunity to remove them and put in place others that we think will do the job better.
Most of the people I know here in North Delta think that council is very focused on the south end, and tends to forget about us over here on the other side of the bog.
I think it's this kind of attitude that serves to keep the division between north and south alive and well in Delta.
It's time we started talking about Delta, just Delta, not North Delta, or South Delta; just Delta.
Lori Mayhew
