Less than 25 per cent of the eligible voting population actually voted in the 2018 municipal election, according to Civic Info BC. The vast majority (over 75 per cent) of Prince George residents didn’t care who was handling the city’s business. Our civic leaders in turn acted as anybody lacking oversight would do. The cost overrun is a prime example of what a lack in oversight leads to. Whether Mayor Hall allowed the parkade ordeal to get this far due to pure incompetence or some malicious intent is unknown but the fact is that millions of taxpayer money is now down the drain.
Two weeks ago, Energy Minister Bruce Ralston said he would not discuss the report s findings before first sharing them with cabinet and the premier.
Furstenau says she hadn t heard about the commissioning of additional geotechnical stuides and wonders how long it will take for Milburn s report to be made public. I expect that, like so many other aspects of this project and the way the government has treated it, that it will be quite a while before I or the public sees it, she told Carolina de Ryk, host of CBC s
Daybreak North.
Green Party leader Sonia Furstenau says she was not aware of the commissioning of two additional geotechnical reports on Site C.(Ben Nelms/CBC)