Little Australia Park Update View this email in your browser Dear Neighbours:



I received our FOI request documents about Little Australia Park, Pacific Spirit Park and the works yard back late Tuesday. You can read the documents here.



Much of the critically important documentation in the package has been redacted or withheld entirely. For example, the reason why the Ministry refused in 2012 to grant tenure to Metro Vancouver on the existing site (page 46 of the PDF) has been redacted.



If nothing else, these records are a good indication of how secretive the provincial government continues to be about their dealings with public land in our community.



As you can see from these records, writing an e-mail to the Minister to register a protest actually gets read and considered inside the Ministry, and attendance at meetings on the topic is faithfully transcribed and communicated to the Minister as well.



I encourage you to write to the Ministers involved to encourage them to explain why they won’t grant tenure to Metro Vancouver for the works yard on the existing site:

Steve Thomson, Minister of Forests Lands and Natural Resources - FLNR.Minister@gov.bc.ca

Peter Fassbender, Minister of Community, Sport and Cultural Development - CSCD.Minister@gov.bc.ca



Yours truly, David Eby

MLA, Vancouver Point Grey