Opinion

Dear editor, I hate arguing over a tax cut, or a tax increase.

Dear editor, According to recent accounts in the local newspapers, the Comox councillors can't seem to come to an agreement regarding the passing of the proposed and long-worked-on Official Community Plan.

Dear editor, I just had a bit of a shock: Cumberland Village Council recently denied The Big Time Out's permit to hold the festival in Cumberland Village Park, the festival's home for the past seven years. This really doesn't make sense to me.

Dear editor, My goodness! How have all the people in the Comox Valley survived all these years with a hospital so precariously far away? Did the Puntledge and Tsolum rivers, Courtenay estuary and other waterways just become terrifyingly dangerous over the past few years?

Dear editor, I was round the marina on Sunday morning. The old Edgewater carpark had 60 cars parked and it was not full! This is essentially the private marina park. Where are these vehicles going to park when the new hotel is built?

Dear editor, In regards to the choice of hospital location in the Comox Valley, have these points been considered?

Dear sir, In a letter, S. Nielsen alludes to the ferry employees being overpaid. I have one question for you. What hole in the ground have you had your head in?

Dear editor, Having received my HST Referendum Voting Package, I took notice that the 'non-partisan' Elections BC felt it necessary to warn me that: 'it is an offence under the Election Act and HST Referendum Regulation to, among other things, 'make a false or misleading declaration' and 'persuade or compel someone to vote, how to vote, or prevent others from voting.'

While philosophical divides among the members of Comox and Cumberland councils have been more visible, Courtenay council has done its business without much apparent acrimony. Until last week.

Dear editor, Could someone please explain to me why the RCMP have seen fit to raid the Compassion Club again? Is there really anyone in this country who still believes that marijuana is a deadly drug?