Callous and unconscionable

Re: Nowhere for them to go.
 
And some of them are being offered the prospect of living in a tent.
 
This will be the final chapter of a piece of legislation that was spawned by greed and ignorance. A long time ago former Premier Gordon Campbell, and the BC Liberal government, adopted legislation that would allow land owners to evict their tenants, giving only one year notice.
 
In a rental suite, that may be considered fair notice, because you do not own the premises. In the case of modular and mobile homes that is not so easy, because the dwellers are usually also the home owner, and being evicted means you will be stuck on the curb, with your modular home, and literally nowhere to go.
 
The legislation was adopted, completely ignoring the usual process for re-development of conventional neighbourhoods, where developers buy the land and all improvements on them.
 
All homeowners should have had full and fair compensation spontaneously with the offer to purchase the property. But common sense and decency was easily overcome for people like Campbell, and greed and ignorance was allowed to rule the day. In the case of Hiawatha, the home owners, most of them seniors and veterans, were squeezed out in a matter that was about as cruel and cold hearted as it can get. 
 
Those seniors are also the people who fought two world wars, and opened the Canadian frontiers to gain access to the resources that are providing us with a lifestyle that is second to none in the whole world, and now Milroy, city hall, and the BC Liberal government has finally put them on the streets. 

How callous, how unconscionable, and Campbell is still on the government dole, living the life of Riley as Canada’s esteemed High Commissioner to the United Kingdom.

Andy Thomsen