EDITOR,
I've got a game for you. What do the following have in common?
Woodfibre, B.C. Rail, Dairy Queen, Yanni's, KFC/Taco Bell, Fastenal, United Rentals, End of the Roll, Klahanie Roadhouse Restaurant, The Bookshelf on Cleveland, the list goes on.
Figure it out yet? Nothing! They no longer exist here.
To my dismay, the process of businesses closing their doors in this community is accelerating month by month. It's getting to the point where we are losing a business almost every month like clockwork.
I must applaud the environmental NIMBY socialists out there pounding your chests. You won. With a country going into a recession, you helped accelerate this process in Squamish tenfold.
I can see it now: The environmentalists are sitting in their bamboo chairs, wearing their grass hats and hemp shorts sipping organic wine patting each other on the back on how they stopped "big industry" from ruining the environment.
I can just smell the backyard barbecue chicken burning on the patios of the NIMBY party. Shushing their neighbour's dog for urinating too loud on their rose bushes. Yelling at the neighbours' kids for whispering too loud during their "campouts" in the backyard.
I can hear the cheers and repetitive mantras of the socialist elites as they pin medals on each other's chest for "beating the man!" or "showing the capitalistic pigs" what "we" can do.
I find it so funny how the direction of this great community has, time after time, been dictated by those that don't even live here, commenting on how "we" should run Squamish. I especially enjoy when Whistler gets their knickers in a twist and tries to dictate to Squamish how it should run its business and the sad thing is every time Squamish has trotted along with the whims of Whistler, like the little dog in the Bugs Bunny cartoons waiting for "Butch" to throw him a bone.
I am so tickled pink that the same six people keep getting re-elected to city council or other committees to have endless meetings that never lead anywhere or seem to accomplish anything but to defer things to another committee. Congrats to you all for killing a vibrant community. I hope you sleep well at night knowing that you have destroyed any kind of future for your children to live and work in their home communities.
Sleep tight.
Jason Bechard
Squamish
