To the editor,
Re: “Letter: MP on CP corridor plans,” July 23.
It is nice that Joyce Murray has taken a stand on behalf of her constituents (well, with rhetoric anyways...) but I question if she will be able to bring it up in the House. Both Liberal and Conservative governments have proven impotent in dictating to the sacrosanct Canadian Pacific.
CP is one of those “powers” that operate in another dimension — sort of like Monsanto or Irving Oil — and it is they that pull strings and make things happen in the government, not the other way around.
So, as much as I laud the political grandstanding of both her and Gregor Robertson on the Arbutus Corridor issue, both are toothless political animals: Joyce may get her knuckles wrapped from the party Whips, but Gregor likes to run the show and I bet he really wishes CP had stayed asleep in Kerrisdale, at least until after his November run for the keys to his kingdom.
Bill Ritchie,
Vancouver
To the editor,
As much as I do not like the CP Rail plan for renewal of activity on Arbutus line, I must remind the Member of Parliament our fundamental right and respect for property ownership. She omitted to mentioned that it’s private property and well meaning gardening Vancouverites are in fact trespassers. Perhaps she should ask why CP neglected the property to become an eyesore without being fined as any other property owner in this city would’ve been.
George Vytasek,
Vancouver
