I am sure a lot of people stare in disbelief with a sense of powerlessness when faced with island Extremism especially when it comes from people we elect to represent our interests. Alas one of the most extreme views expressed by our Island Trustees is that they feel that they were actually not elected to represent us but rather the interests of the Islands Trust. Duh. Now I get it.
I have been trying to figure out for years how our NDP legislature at the time could have created this monstrous hybrid of the democratic process where candidates are only welcome to run if they first agree to an ideology, that is to say the Trust Act and the famous "Object of the Trust" so often truncated.
Once the public understands that this is more an institution with a serious agenda of its own, perhaps they might think twice about who they vote in. With their powers to select and appoint their supporters to their own advisory committees to back up their decisions, well you can see it is a tidy closed loop system isn't it? Surely people can see the parallels with how the Chinese system of governance works and how 'commitees' are established to ultimately repress peoples' rights, even the concept of property rights will no longer exist.
The Islands Trust has figured out that if they create enough bylaws that make your home insurance policy null and void, they will eventually succeed in removing people from the Trust area and of course they can then rewrite a truly truncated version of their mandate to just "to preserve and protect" without all these annoying people around who thought for a long time that it was for their benefit and all British Columbians.
Turns out, maybe not, that is once the smokescreen of these RARs are nicely in place. That should probably shut things down for good. Not hard to designate the entire wet coast as a wetland now is it?
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