Editor: Re: Canmore may offer to purchase to Cougar Creek lots.
I write this letter to both correct a typo and also once again protest the shabby treatment the Di Poces have received.
Contrary to the way the article reads, they have received zero compensation for the loss of their home. Your readers may recall the circumstances of the case.
Although Justin Di Poce was living full-time in the house and working full-time in Alberta, the Di Poces were denied compensation because it was deemed a secondary home since Justin’s parents, Frank and Ruth, owned the home and they lived in Ontario.
I consider this a technicality that was used to deny them the fair compensation they deserved.
Given the fact it was the province that sold this unsafe land to developers who then sold it to the Di Poces, you would think the province via the DRP would have some remorse in denying them, and only them, any compensation.
Now the city denying them the right to rebuild certainly smacks of rubbing salt in the Di Poce’s wounds.
May I point out that the town and Mayor John Borrowman have always been very patient and supportive of the Di Poce cause, and have argued strenuously in their behalf attempting to get them DRP relief.
Perhaps now the town can put its money where its mouth is and fairly compensate the Di Poces for their losses, as every other single person on the Cougar Creek got compensated.
Justice for the Di Poces I say, justice.
Romeo Bruni,
Canmore
