Editor:
Jason Wilkinson uses two popular arguments in his letter suggesting council approve the Three Sisters Mountain Village development plan.
First, that Canmore “needs” more jobs. And second, that people not wanting development don’t want their views interfered with, or as some other people have suggested, those already here don’t want anyone else to move here.
Both are valid arguments.
But why does Canmore always “need” more jobs. Is it written somewhere in the cosmos that a town can’t remain the same size. That a town always must need more jobs, more housing, more people.
And secondly, how is a person's opinion invalid on any issue just because they already live here? That is exactly who the council represents, people who live here.
And one final question, Mr. Wilkinson, if we don’t say no to development now, then when? When do we say no more development?
When Canmore looks like Airdrie only with mountains? When Canmore looks like Bogota, Columbia with development from the river bank to the crest of the mountains?
And if you think once TSMV is built out that it ends there, you’re wrong.
Developers are never satisfied until every square meter of land has something man made on it.
So I’ll ask again, if not now Mr. Wilkinson, then when?
Tom Duke,
Canmore
