Editor:
When Delta commissioned an Ipsos Reid poll last year to specifically ask if we wanted to retain the current policy and land use designation, as agricultural, for the Southlands, the public had its say.
We spoke with a strong majority as 61.4 per cent wanted to see no change to existing land use policies for Southlands, while 37.6 per cent would support some limited development. We, the people, spoke: Retain the current policy and land use designation, as agricultural, for the Southlands.
The people's voice angered Century Group president Sean Hodgins, who told Brian Lewis of The Province after the results were announced, that he was "never going to quit."
He has put forward a housing proposal, but has hinted that if that doesn't get approval he will look at industrial farming.
By giving into the threat it could be worse, much worse; we teach our children what? Give in to a bully threatening to destroy our whole community with greenhouses, lawsuits and pig farms? Now we all suffer the consequences and do a disservice to all our educators and turn a blind eye to our community morals.
Ethics is the question of right and wrong. Some people either don't know these things or just ignore them altogether. The fact of the matter is we all own the agricultural zoning of the Southlands; it is our community zoning.
The British Columbia Ecological Agricultural Trust Society has the proof the agricultural zoning should remain intact. The science is clear; we can prove Hodgins' proposal is wrong.
Robert Johnson
