WEBVTT 1 00:00:09.180 --> 00:00:15.040 Hello. My name is Melanie, obviously. I've 2 00:00:15.040 --> 00:00:20.420 lived in Fulton for five years. I 3 00:00:20.420 --> 00:00:21.280 love living 4 00:00:21.280 --> 00:00:26.920 here. I love this area. I never want to move. So this 5 00:00:26.920 --> 00:00:27.920 is one of the times. 6 00:00:28.074 --> 00:00:33.214 I guess where I felt like it was a good opportunity to kind of step up and maybe 7 00:00:33.214 --> 00:00:35.734 show everyone how much I love this community. 8 00:00:36.094 --> 00:00:39.274 I have a seven-year-old daughter. She goes to the elementary school here. 9 00:00:40.034 --> 00:00:45.534 I'm her primary parent, but her dad also lives very close, so we 10 00:00:45.534 --> 00:00:47.814 have a pretty amicable relationship. 11 00:00:49.494 --> 00:00:51.934 Just in case anyone's heard anything otherwise. 12 00:00:54.234 --> 00:00:56.074 My parents also live here. 13 00:00:56.148 --> 00:01:01.208 and are very active members of the community and uh i think we're all kind of at 14 00:01:01.208 --> 00:01:01.568 the point 15 00:01:01.568 --> 00:01:08.088 now where we don't want to go anywhere okay 16 00:01:08.088 --> 00:01:12.428 good evening everyone i'm dennis lap here 17 00:01:12.988 --> 00:01:14.828 and i have about a seven minute 18 00:01:17.668 --> 00:01:22.828 i've been a member of the falcon community for 34 years we bought our 19 00:01:22.828 --> 00:01:23.208 farm 20 00:01:24.222 --> 00:01:29.882 In 1992, forwarding the birth of two more sons and our desire for us 21 00:01:29.882 --> 00:01:31.482 to raise it in a rural community. 22 00:01:31.602 --> 00:01:36.682 It was a good decision. Our boys have since thrived and we do enjoy our 23 00:01:36.682 --> 00:01:37.302 lives here. 24 00:01:38.062 --> 00:01:40.962 I have a lot of experience I hope you will find relevant. 25 00:01:41.962 --> 00:01:48.262 You elected me, Electroleria Director, for the term preceding Renee Talbot's term 26 00:01:48.262 --> 00:01:52.222 and the Board of the Day thought highly enough of me at the time that elected me. 27 00:01:52.297 --> 00:01:57.497 chair in the third year of that term. I got involved with the Salmon River 28 00:01:57.497 --> 00:01:59.557 Watershed Roundtable in 1995 29 00:02:00.417 --> 00:02:05.457 when the Federal Fraser River Action Plan held a watershed -wide meeting 30 00:02:05.457 --> 00:02:06.577 aimed at encouraging 31 00:02:07.077 --> 00:02:12.097 a watershed sustainability initiative. It received funding for a lot 32 00:02:12.097 --> 00:02:13.717 of riparian restoration work 33 00:02:13.717 --> 00:02:18.897 that was done along the river and I held a contract as a watershed coordinator during 34 00:02:18.897 --> 00:02:19.477 that time. 35 00:02:20.371 --> 00:02:22.271 Alfred became the Round Table's chair. 36 00:02:23.511 --> 00:02:27.411 My local government experience, my involvement with the Round Table, 37 00:02:27.591 --> 00:02:31.871 and my experience as a producer, I raised and sold pure red sheep. 38 00:02:32.271 --> 00:02:37.451 I am breeding stoic into the U .S. and elsewhere in Canada for a number of years. 39 00:02:37.811 --> 00:02:41.791 That taught me an invitation to join the B.C. Agriculture Council, 40 00:02:42.231 --> 00:02:47.611 a province -wide producer organization that works with the provincial government on policy 41 00:02:47.611 --> 00:02:48.071 matters. 42 00:02:48.445 --> 00:02:54.405 After that, I joined the Investment Agriculture Foundation in 43 00:02:54.405 --> 00:02:55.585 reviewing and approved funding 44 00:02:55.585 --> 00:03:00.905 applications using significant funding dollars provided under Federal Provincial Agreement. 45 00:03:01.725 --> 00:03:07.305 Your environmental farm plan, for those of you who are producers here, is 46 00:03:07.305 --> 00:03:07.765 an outcome 47 00:03:09.045 --> 00:03:14.045 In that time, I also earned a graduate degree in communications from Royal Roads University. 48 00:03:15.365 --> 00:03:16.185 I don't know what I'm doing here. 49 00:03:16.520 --> 00:03:21.720 a board member of the Farm Industry Review Board, an organization independent of 50 00:03:21.720 --> 00:03:22.200 government 51 00:03:22.200 --> 00:03:27.440 with legal oversight responsibility of the supply managed and regulated 52 00:03:27.440 --> 00:03:28.400 marketing parts 53 00:03:28.400 --> 00:03:33.900 of the province's agriculture industry. For that role, 54 00:03:34.100 --> 00:03:35.860 I took legal training and became 55 00:03:35.860 --> 00:03:41.000 qualified as an administrative law practitioner, and I conducted several 56 00:03:41.000 --> 00:03:42.700 hearings as a decision 57 00:03:42.700 --> 00:03:43.240 maker. 58 00:03:44.594 --> 00:03:50.594 of disputes, including appeal hearings on SPCA animal seizures. My 59 00:03:50.594 --> 00:03:51.754 job included providing 60 00:03:51.754 --> 00:03:57.114 written decisions to all parties. It usually took three to six days to write because 61 00:03:57.114 --> 00:03:57.394 they 62 00:03:57.394 --> 00:04:02.694 had to be complete and concise. And just like with the courts, my 63 00:04:02.694 --> 00:04:04.154 decisions had the force 64 00:04:04.154 --> 00:04:09.574 of law. I was paid well for that work. Having nearly reached 65 00:04:09.574 --> 00:04:11.074 the six -year limit to that 66 00:04:11.074 --> 00:04:11.974 term, I retired. 67 00:04:12.668 --> 00:04:14.088 because I was needed at home. 68 00:04:14.568 --> 00:04:17.748 And since then, I've taken only one short-term contract 69 00:04:18.448 --> 00:04:20.848 with Statistics Canada as a team leader 70 00:04:20.848 --> 00:04:21.868 for this year's census. 71 00:04:22.248 --> 00:04:25.848 And I had the pleasure of working with three ladies 72 00:04:25.848 --> 00:04:27.968 from Falcon, Randy Watson being one, 73 00:04:28.208 --> 00:04:32.248 Brett McGee's rep, and Shannon Shelby. 74 00:04:35.688 --> 00:04:38.008 The current drought situation is important 75 00:04:38.008 --> 00:04:40.668 and so is agriculture to the economy of the country. 76 00:04:40.742 --> 00:04:45.782 this region. The Salmon River Watershed Committee that is headed by Trudy Schrapp and Ruth 77 00:04:45.782 --> 00:04:46.582 is 78 00:04:46.582 --> 00:04:51.662 working toward developing a water storage plant so that enough water can be stored to 79 00:04:51.662 --> 00:04:56.862 supply both fish and farm beans. I've given Trudy a 80 00:04:56.862 --> 00:04:58.842 number of files I have buried in the 81 00:04:58.842 --> 00:05:03.482 recesses of my hard drive that will no doubt be helpful as the committee seeks to resurrect 82 00:05:03.482 --> 00:05:08.742 the Round Table Society and seek charitable status so that it would be eligible 83 00:05:08.742 --> 00:05:08.742 for the 84 00:05:08.817 --> 00:05:11.477 to apply for tax deductible credits. 85 00:05:12.577 --> 00:05:14.897 What I'm able to bring to the area of the job 86 00:05:14.897 --> 00:05:17.217 is a lot of training, experience, and skill 87 00:05:17.217 --> 00:05:20.377 that is directly applicable to the job. 88 00:05:20.677 --> 00:05:22.797 Because I'm now more or less retired, 89 00:05:23.317 --> 00:05:25.977 I'd be very pleased to put that all to work for you 90 00:05:25.977 --> 00:05:27.377 as your electoral area director. 91 00:05:28.317 --> 00:05:30.517 So thank you for listening to my work. 92 00:05:32.417 --> 00:05:33.317 There you go, John. 93 00:05:33.537 --> 00:05:35.217 Are we still seeing the guys right now? 94 00:05:40.231 --> 00:05:45.231 I'm John. I'm not going to ask you guys to say that. A lot of you people in here don't be as cozy, 95 00:05:45.431 --> 00:05:46.351 and that's just fine. 96 00:05:46.511 --> 00:05:50.971 Please don't try and say my last name. You'll be probably sneezed about five times doing it. 97 00:05:52.651 --> 00:05:58.031 I'm not going to get into a whole bunch of my accolades and accomplishments or 98 00:05:58.031 --> 00:05:59.231 anything like that. 99 00:05:59.391 --> 00:06:02.971 I went to college at Griffith University College in Winnipeg, Manitoba. 100 00:06:02.971 --> 00:06:04.891 I played hockey for the Manitoba Bucs. 101 00:06:04.965 --> 00:06:09.305 I was at the University of Manitoba, I cracked the WHL, all that stuff. 102 00:06:09.905 --> 00:06:15.185 I was the youngest foreman to ever become foreman in the shops. 103 00:06:15.745 --> 00:06:21.025 I ran crews of 30 mechanics at a time through three different Canadian tires in Winnipeg, 104 00:06:21.185 --> 00:06:23.565 New City, Polo Park, and St. Patel. 105 00:06:23.885 --> 00:06:25.125 So I was roving. 106 00:06:25.445 --> 00:06:27.525 I was 24 years old when I got that. 107 00:06:28.005 --> 00:06:29.965 That's about all the experience I'm going to talk about. 108 00:06:30.545 --> 00:06:32.965 I don't feel this position requires experience. 109 00:06:33.600 --> 00:06:38.920 per se. I think we've gone down that road before, and I think right now 110 00:06:38.920 --> 00:06:44.080 we need a breath of fresh air and a loud voice. I'd love to be that loud 111 00:06:44.080 --> 00:06:49.200 voice for you guys. I have absolutely no problem shooting my big mouth off. Anybody that 112 00:06:49.200 --> 00:06:54.220 knows me will tell you I have one, and I definitely don't like politicians. So I'd 113 00:06:54.220 --> 00:06:56.520 be more than happy to advocate for a great team. 114 00:06:57.960 --> 00:07:00.320 Dennis is right. There's a lot of cool things going on here. 115 00:07:01.114 --> 00:07:04.074 I definitely want to champion that stuff, you know. 116 00:07:04.434 --> 00:07:08.034 There's been a few issues raised that that is definitely on my radar. 117 00:07:08.594 --> 00:07:12.474 And, yeah, if you guys ask about it, my answer is not necessarily for that. 118 00:07:12.574 --> 00:07:13.534 So I'm going to keep it short. 119 00:07:13.934 --> 00:07:15.634 And, yeah, that's it. 120 00:07:22.974 --> 00:07:23.554 All right. 121 00:07:26.154 --> 00:07:27.714 All right, so we've met our candidates. 122 00:07:28.014 --> 00:07:28.994 Does anyone have any questions? 123 00:07:29.188 --> 00:07:30.908 that they would like to ask? 124 00:07:31.648 --> 00:07:32.888 Come on. 125 00:07:34.028 --> 00:07:35.228 There we go. 126 00:07:35.548 --> 00:07:36.248 Hands are up. 127 00:07:41.028 --> 00:07:43.468 It's kind of come to my attention 128 00:07:43.468 --> 00:07:47.488 that we seem to be getting built twice for our water. 129 00:07:49.388 --> 00:07:50.008 Yeah. 130 00:07:52.108 --> 00:07:53.768 In the last two years. 131 00:07:54.128 --> 00:07:55.728 And I didn't realize that. 132 00:07:55.908 --> 00:07:56.988 When we moved here, 133 00:07:58.202 --> 00:08:03.342 The first year, I looked at our CSRD, our Columbia 134 00:08:03.342 --> 00:08:08.662 Shoeshop Regional District, billing for our utilities, and 135 00:08:08.662 --> 00:08:13.642 it was broken down into what we were being built for. 136 00:08:14.002 --> 00:08:19.542 First of all, it was water, and that was about $230 -odd. It 137 00:08:19.542 --> 00:08:22.442 was landfill, and that was about $50 -odd. 138 00:08:22.442 --> 00:08:24.742 And then I think... 139 00:08:25.337 --> 00:08:30.417 a couple miscellaneous possibly the crosswalk and some lighting 140 00:08:30.417 --> 00:08:33.097 or something the total bill was 141 00:08:34.697 --> 00:08:40.437 that we paid the first year was about 289 dollars so 230 142 00:08:40.437 --> 00:08:44.617 ish was for the water second year 143 00:08:44.617 --> 00:08:49.697 and our property tax bill came in and there was no 144 00:08:49.697 --> 00:08:52.777 water listed because we'd already paid for it 145 00:08:54.971 --> 00:09:00.231 Second year, I just looked at the total, paid it. 146 00:09:00.731 --> 00:09:02.911 Third year, I looked at the total, paid it. 147 00:09:03.971 --> 00:09:06.431 Last couple of years, I looked at the total and paid it. 148 00:09:06.471 --> 00:09:11.551 This year, something caught my attention, and unfortunately, I don't 149 00:09:11.551 --> 00:09:12.411 have a copy of it 150 00:09:12.411 --> 00:09:16.491 because when I paid the bill, they kept the part that showed what I was paying for, 151 00:09:16.551 --> 00:09:21.131 but none of the items were identified. 152 00:09:22.425 --> 00:09:27.725 I was just given a total and in big bold letters with the yellow underline 153 00:09:27.725 --> 00:09:31.065 it said that my water bill was one dollar. 154 00:09:33.845 --> 00:09:39.045 It had gone up progressively for the four previous years that we lived here. 155 00:09:40.405 --> 00:09:45.565 So that kind of hurt my attention how did my water bill go from 156 00:09:45.565 --> 00:09:49.485 almost 300 to 100. 157 00:09:51.520 --> 00:09:53.500 and then I got my property tax 158 00:09:53.500 --> 00:09:55.200 and I looked at that and it said 159 00:09:55.200 --> 00:09:56.920 Fault in Water $305 160 00:09:57.680 --> 00:09:59.640 now my CSRD bill 161 00:09:59.640 --> 00:10:01.240 didn't go down at all 162 00:10:01.240 --> 00:10:03.200 in fact it was $369 163 00:10:04.680 --> 00:10:05.820 we didn't get a new 164 00:10:05.820 --> 00:10:06.320 landfill 165 00:10:07.500 --> 00:10:09.680 we didn't get any more crosswalks 166 00:10:09.680 --> 00:10:11.740 we didn't get anything else 167 00:10:11.740 --> 00:10:12.320 so 168 00:10:13.420 --> 00:10:15.460 they just simply stopped saying 169 00:10:15.460 --> 00:10:17.040 they were charging us for water 170 00:10:17.634 --> 00:10:22.694 on the CSRD. Now they've flipped it over and they're charging us a second time on 171 00:10:22.694 --> 00:10:23.154 our provincial 172 00:10:23.154 --> 00:10:28.274 tax. So, somebody on the board 173 00:10:28.274 --> 00:10:32.774 has done this, and the only people that I can think of that 174 00:10:32.774 --> 00:10:38.014 would benefit from it is the city of Sam and Arm, which voted two years 175 00:10:38.014 --> 00:10:39.754 ago to install 176 00:10:39.754 --> 00:10:45.614 a new water treatment plant and borrow millions of dollars to do it, which... 177 00:10:45.708 --> 00:10:50.748 Supposedly the taxpayers of Sam and Arne would be on the outpour, but it seems 178 00:10:50.748 --> 00:10:55.788 that somehow or another, without making it clear, you and 179 00:10:55.788 --> 00:11:01.428 I are being forced 180 00:11:01.428 --> 00:11:03.408 to contribute to this water plant. 181 00:11:04.148 --> 00:11:06.068 That's what I think is happening. 182 00:11:06.868 --> 00:11:09.608 But we are definitely being double billed for our water. 183 00:11:10.548 --> 00:11:13.708 We've all paid where we would. 184 00:11:13.782 --> 00:11:16.562 We were told we were paying $300, we paid $600. 185 00:11:19.162 --> 00:11:23.602 So I'd like to know who's going to address that or find out what's going on. 186 00:11:23.822 --> 00:11:25.782 I'll get answers. I'll find out. 187 00:11:26.402 --> 00:11:30.162 Everyone should be able to call and ask that question. 188 00:11:30.682 --> 00:11:37.022 I would ask everybody here to go and check whatever records they have and 189 00:11:37.022 --> 00:11:38.002 verify. 190 00:11:38.542 --> 00:11:40.922 I mean, I don't think I'm the only one. 191 00:11:43.257 --> 00:11:49.617 So, I'm pretty sure that everybody in Baldwin and probably areas 192 00:11:49.617 --> 00:11:55.717 B, C, D, E, and F, or whatever, how many areas, 193 00:11:56.117 --> 00:12:01.417 I think the whole branch is being ripped off for the benefit of 194 00:12:01.417 --> 00:12:06.437 Salmon Arm, which leads me to believe that somebody 195 00:12:06.437 --> 00:12:09.677 in the CSRD and somebody in the city of Salmon Arm. 196 00:12:10.991 --> 00:12:14.851 conspired to defraud the taxpayers in this area. 197 00:12:16.211 --> 00:12:18.931 And I don't know if we should contact the RCMP. 198 00:12:19.511 --> 00:12:22.111 I don't know if we should contact municipal affairs 199 00:12:22.111 --> 00:12:26.311 or if we should go up and get a lawyer and start a class action suit. 200 00:12:26.611 --> 00:12:31.971 But if you think about it, it's 201 00:12:31.971 --> 00:12:34.191 probably $18 ,000 from this area 202 00:12:34.811 --> 00:12:37.851 in the last two years, if that's when it started. 203 00:12:38.005 --> 00:12:43.225 and that's basically when I think it gets started are you on the village water 204 00:12:43.225 --> 00:12:43.705 system 205 00:12:43.705 --> 00:12:49.485 are you on the village water system yeah yeah we've 206 00:12:49.485 --> 00:12:52.085 always got a thing on our tax 207 00:12:52.085 --> 00:12:57.285 our land tax and we also get a statement before April from 208 00:12:57.285 --> 00:12:58.945 the regional district today 209 00:13:04.605 --> 00:13:06.005 so 210 00:13:06.080 --> 00:13:10.580 One on your land tax and one directly from the CSRD. 211 00:13:10.740 --> 00:13:14.820 That's the way it was up until five years ago when we moved. 212 00:13:15.240 --> 00:13:19.160 But before that, and from the start of the water district, 213 00:13:20.580 --> 00:13:25.920 we always paid a yearly fee before April the statement came 214 00:13:25.920 --> 00:13:26.220 out 215 00:13:26.220 --> 00:13:28.740 and there was always a bill on our tax, 216 00:13:29.020 --> 00:13:33.940 our permission tax, land, statement, or water. 217 00:13:34.154 --> 00:13:35.614 Did you paint yourself alone? 218 00:13:36.054 --> 00:13:38.334 Yes. You painted twice. 219 00:13:39.754 --> 00:13:41.074 You went to watch. 220 00:13:41.994 --> 00:13:42.634 Yes. 221 00:13:44.634 --> 00:13:46.714 It was like that from the beginning. 222 00:13:54.174 --> 00:13:57.234 It's there now, but I don't remember seeing it. 223 00:13:57.374 --> 00:13:59.594 It was there right from the beginning. 224 00:13:59.834 --> 00:14:01.554 It was really enjoying. 225 00:14:26.788 --> 00:14:30.108 I don't know much about that. I know there's a large committee. 226 00:14:30.302 --> 00:14:35.622 in Falkland that concerns itself with the water supply system for Falkland. 227 00:14:35.782 --> 00:14:41.202 So I'm on a farm down the road, so I actually pay the province 228 00:14:41.202 --> 00:14:44.322 for my water license. 229 00:14:44.822 --> 00:14:46.342 It's a different system entirely. 230 00:14:48.162 --> 00:14:51.222 Why did you tell me this year that my water is a problem? 231 00:14:51.542 --> 00:14:55.122 I have no idea because I'm not on the system anymore. 232 00:14:55.422 --> 00:14:58.302 But as long as we were on the system, that's how we were. 233 00:14:58.377 --> 00:15:03.497 bill. That's all I know about it. We 234 00:15:03.497 --> 00:15:06.697 have water rights on the crop and we get a separate 235 00:15:06.697 --> 00:15:09.077 bill for that. It doesn't make it normal tax. 236 00:15:11.837 --> 00:15:15.397 Right. We're going to move on to a different subject. Did you have a question? 237 00:15:20.137 --> 00:15:24.157 I have a question about water, but it's not bad. 238 00:15:26.451 --> 00:15:31.891 My name is Mandy Watson. I live on the town site. I've lived here since 1990. 239 00:15:33.551 --> 00:15:38.591 I understand that Falkland town site 240 00:15:38.591 --> 00:15:44.091 gets their water from a reservoir, which is very far 241 00:15:44.091 --> 00:15:49.531 up from the Salmon River, and I want to know why 242 00:15:49.531 --> 00:15:54.171 we, getting our water from the reservoir, 243 00:15:54.525 --> 00:16:00.105 have to use less when the Salmon River is 244 00:16:00.105 --> 00:16:04.005 having issues with not having enough water. 245 00:16:04.565 --> 00:16:08.805 I understand why the farmers wouldn't be allowed to water as much, 246 00:16:08.945 --> 00:16:10.825 because they're pulling from the river. 247 00:16:11.945 --> 00:16:12.665 Always. 248 00:16:14.565 --> 00:16:16.665 Are they pulling from the reservoir? 249 00:16:19.505 --> 00:16:21.905 But is the reservoir... 250 00:16:22.600 --> 00:16:27.840 i don't know how does the water get into the reservoir it falls from the sky 251 00:16:27.840 --> 00:16:28.700 it doesn't come 252 00:16:28.700 --> 00:16:29.640 up from the river 253 00:16:37.840 --> 00:16:43.020 and then they come up to the reservoir okay that's why i'm asking because it 254 00:16:43.020 --> 00:16:44.380 didn't make any sense to 255 00:16:44.380 --> 00:16:50.140 me and so i came here to try to figure it out because it didn't make sense and 256 00:16:50.140 --> 00:16:50.360 now 257 00:16:50.674 --> 00:16:52.514 Thank you. 258 00:17:18.748 --> 00:17:23.988 You bet. And I understand that if I have this question and maybe others, and this 259 00:17:23.988 --> 00:17:29.248 way all of the others get the question, instead of one -to -one, I don't 260 00:17:29.248 --> 00:17:32.768 really feel comfortable getting one person answering one question. 261 00:17:32.988 --> 00:17:34.868 Well, who's the one person answering the question? 262 00:17:35.408 --> 00:17:38.808 Yes, well now I know. I got it. Thank you. 263 00:17:38.948 --> 00:17:42.548 I actually, this is on. Nope, I'm going to turn to button. 264 00:17:43.608 --> 00:17:46.688 I noticed we, I went two ways. 265 00:17:46.822 --> 00:17:51.922 seniors' lunch, and I noticed that actually a lot of the people there didn't 266 00:17:51.922 --> 00:17:52.762 even understand 267 00:17:52.762 --> 00:17:57.842 the water system in Falkland themselves, and so I do agree with Trudy that 268 00:17:57.842 --> 00:17:58.342 I think there 269 00:17:58.342 --> 00:18:03.362 needs to be more education about how the water system here works, because there's lots of 270 00:18:03.362 --> 00:18:08.802 people in town that actually seem to have no idea why they're on water restrictions 271 00:18:08.802 --> 00:18:11.342 except that the river's low and that's what they get told. 272 00:18:11.862 --> 00:18:14.822 So that would definitely be something that I would look at doing. 273 00:18:14.897 --> 00:18:19.857 because i've had this question multiple times it would be really good i think to have better 274 00:18:19.857 --> 00:18:24.857 communication with the people that live in town as to why you can't water things 275 00:18:24.857 --> 00:18:25.657 instead of just 276 00:18:25.657 --> 00:18:30.677 being told that you're not allowed to thank you gosh don't get a car strong or 277 00:18:30.677 --> 00:18:31.817 anywhere else i guess 278 00:18:36.517 --> 00:18:42.017 comes to the water obviously the system that we have regardless of how 279 00:18:42.017 --> 00:18:42.897 it's being paid for 280 00:18:42.971 --> 00:18:48.251 It's not adequate. So what are your plans to 281 00:18:48.251 --> 00:18:53.271 rectify the situation for the future so that we have an adequate water when we 282 00:18:53.271 --> 00:18:58.331 do run into drought situations and we don't have this feud going on between residential 283 00:18:58.331 --> 00:18:59.871 and agriculture? 284 00:19:00.431 --> 00:19:06.011 Because I really don't feel that I should let everything in my yard die 285 00:19:06.011 --> 00:19:10.851 because of water restrictions to support hay being grown. 286 00:19:11.045 --> 00:19:14.365 and corn being grown for the beef industry when we don't even buy beef. 287 00:19:15.225 --> 00:19:20.765 So I want to know from you three, what are your plans when 288 00:19:20.765 --> 00:19:22.765 you start representing Faultland 289 00:19:22.765 --> 00:19:26.345 and you're going to the Columbia-Shushua Regional District, 290 00:19:27.065 --> 00:19:32.165 what are you going to propose for a future remedy on this 291 00:19:32.165 --> 00:19:32.825 water issue? 292 00:19:32.945 --> 00:19:37.165 Because it's serious and it's not going to get any better with weather conditions. 293 00:19:37.625 --> 00:19:39.045 So let's hear from all of you. 294 00:19:40.160 --> 00:19:44.480 Well, Trudy Shua could easily answer the question for you. 295 00:19:44.960 --> 00:19:50.260 She's spearheading an initiative to store water in the springtime 296 00:19:50.260 --> 00:19:53.560 to increase the level of the lakes that feed the Salon River 297 00:19:53.560 --> 00:19:58.700 so that there's water available for both fish and farm throughout the year. 298 00:19:59.040 --> 00:20:04.600 So far, the BC Cattlemen's Association 299 00:20:04.600 --> 00:20:07.120 has received, I think, somewhere in the name or not. 300 00:20:07.194 --> 00:20:13.174 about $100 ,000 from the Investment Agriculture Foundation towards developing 301 00:20:13.174 --> 00:20:14.494 a plan for our 302 00:20:15.034 --> 00:20:19.894 major water storage initiative. This thing is going to take a few years to develop but the 303 00:20:19.894 --> 00:20:25.134 whole point is, is that the forecast for the droughts in the future, 304 00:20:25.434 --> 00:20:26.294 climate change, 305 00:20:27.594 --> 00:20:32.874 the whole point is to accumulate enough water storage so 306 00:20:32.874 --> 00:20:35.134 that it satisfies everybody's needs. 307 00:20:35.268 --> 00:20:38.648 for the future. 308 00:20:40.188 --> 00:20:42.428 One way to solve the problem 309 00:20:43.428 --> 00:20:45.568 is to put everyone on a weekend. 310 00:20:48.648 --> 00:20:50.148 There you go. 311 00:20:53.408 --> 00:20:54.788 Let's get it done. 312 00:20:59.828 --> 00:21:01.228 Job control. 313 00:21:05.703 --> 00:21:08.403 Yeah, you know, I like Trudy's idea myself. 314 00:21:10.163 --> 00:21:12.383 I mean, there's not much that can be said about it. 315 00:21:12.483 --> 00:21:16.243 It's a very resolute way to handle everything that's happening. 316 00:21:16.503 --> 00:21:19.703 The reality is, this is something that people need to understand, is provincial. 317 00:21:21.043 --> 00:21:24.163 So, Trudy's kind of in the process of getting the province on water right now. 318 00:21:24.283 --> 00:21:27.683 So really, none of us are going to be able to give you the answer that you seek 319 00:21:27.683 --> 00:21:30.723 until the province really gets in there and works with them. 320 00:21:31.417 --> 00:21:36.677 That's kind of the reality of it. But, I can tell you that I would definitely push and advocate 321 00:21:36.677 --> 00:21:38.717 for a tree in our organization as well. 322 00:21:38.977 --> 00:21:44.337 To try and see how quickly we can get this group. I mean, the reality is, everybody needs 323 00:21:44.337 --> 00:21:44.777 that water. 324 00:21:45.077 --> 00:21:49.397 The town turned into a tinderbox. That's the biggest thing I heard throughout the year. 325 00:21:49.537 --> 00:21:51.697 Everyone's grass was dying when we got put on the restriction. 326 00:21:52.797 --> 00:21:56.937 One rogue spark would have started a fire and now we just tinderbox the town. 327 00:21:57.317 --> 00:21:59.417 So, it's pretty important that... 328 00:21:59.491 --> 00:22:04.591 you know, organizations like Trinity Shrub's doing exists for that very reason. 329 00:22:14.611 --> 00:22:18.551 So since the water situation is such a hot topic here, 330 00:22:19.311 --> 00:22:21.711 after you guys are done with this, 331 00:22:22.571 --> 00:22:24.091 it doesn't go too late, 332 00:22:24.511 --> 00:22:27.391 I'm happy to talk to you guys for a few minutes. 333 00:22:27.565 --> 00:22:29.465 and update you on what's going on 334 00:22:29.465 --> 00:22:30.765 with the watershed situation. 335 00:22:42.225 --> 00:22:43.565 My question, I'm not sure 336 00:22:43.565 --> 00:22:44.725 if it's for any individual 337 00:22:45.645 --> 00:22:47.225 representative, but I would like to know 338 00:22:47.225 --> 00:22:49.545 how much influence the CSRD 339 00:22:49.545 --> 00:22:51.285 has upon the water restrictions 340 00:22:51.285 --> 00:22:53.465 for the ranchers and farmers. 341 00:22:53.745 --> 00:22:55.505 Is there any influence or is that just 342 00:22:55.640 --> 00:22:58.120 about it in the provincial last year. 343 00:23:01.180 --> 00:23:02.820 That's a provincial decision. 344 00:23:03.880 --> 00:23:05.520 That's a provincial decision. 345 00:23:06.820 --> 00:23:08.360 So the state attorney will be 346 00:23:08.360 --> 00:23:11.260 as if that was happening in our town, right? 347 00:23:17.520 --> 00:23:18.460 Thank you. 348 00:23:19.100 --> 00:23:21.680 Just a little clarification on this 349 00:23:21.680 --> 00:23:23.640 water involved in downtown. 350 00:23:23.714 --> 00:23:28.914 down here. There are two wells at the Stampede grounds. They're connected and 351 00:23:28.914 --> 00:23:29.474 they're supposed 352 00:23:29.474 --> 00:23:34.774 to switch back and forth. The biggest problem is the reservoir is 45 353 00:23:34.774 --> 00:23:35.994 years old and it's 354 00:23:35.994 --> 00:23:41.014 too small. But my question for you people is, are you going to show 355 00:23:41.014 --> 00:23:43.054 up at community meetings? 356 00:23:43.234 --> 00:23:48.314 Are you going to support the community groups that depend on grant and aid or 357 00:23:48.314 --> 00:23:48.834 whatever? 358 00:23:49.234 --> 00:23:51.474 The backbone of these small communities. 359 00:23:51.788 --> 00:23:57.148 It's your community groups, like your community association, your Sunday Mourners, 360 00:23:57.308 --> 00:24:00.428 the curling, the museum, those sorts of things. 361 00:24:00.888 --> 00:24:05.548 And then the Silver Creek Air Community Association, the seniors. 362 00:24:05.968 --> 00:24:08.988 In the Deep Creek, it's the Farmers Institute. 363 00:24:09.448 --> 00:24:11.868 They need support from you people. 364 00:24:12.268 --> 00:24:17.648 The other thing is, you have to make, if you're elected, 365 00:24:17.908 --> 00:24:19.788 you have to make these people like you. 366 00:24:19.863 --> 00:24:22.383 the RCMP and the school board. 367 00:24:22.943 --> 00:24:24.243 Protect your children. 368 00:24:24.643 --> 00:24:26.923 Don't go online and say, yeah, yeah, yeah. 369 00:24:27.223 --> 00:24:30.683 But make the people that live here feel comfortable 370 00:24:30.683 --> 00:24:32.443 sending their kids to school. 371 00:24:32.983 --> 00:24:37.103 They want to deal with these problems. 372 00:24:37.343 --> 00:24:38.503 Have a telehealth meeting. 373 00:24:38.683 --> 00:24:41.543 Come here and explain what's going on to the people. 374 00:24:41.783 --> 00:24:45.543 Make the parents feel comfortable taking their kids to school. 375 00:24:46.203 --> 00:24:47.863 And the biggest thing... 376 00:24:47.937 --> 00:24:53.057 is you get elected to show up from time to time 377 00:24:53.057 --> 00:24:55.237 to community meetings. Unfortunately, 378 00:24:55.337 --> 00:25:00.537 Dennis, you've never done that. And that's not a good thing. In Faulkland, you've never 379 00:25:00.537 --> 00:25:05.697 come to community meetings. But you have to come to community 380 00:25:05.697 --> 00:25:06.597 meetings. You can't make 381 00:25:06.597 --> 00:25:11.837 every community meeting. But show up once in a while when you can. And the other thing, 382 00:25:12.737 --> 00:25:15.597 not as elected official as the person that lives here. 383 00:25:16.011 --> 00:25:21.351 get involved in the community don't be somebody that nobody knows so 384 00:25:21.351 --> 00:25:22.571 you know those are some of 385 00:25:22.571 --> 00:25:27.591 the really important things one other thing as an elected official you will sit 386 00:25:27.591 --> 00:25:28.231 on the 387 00:25:28.231 --> 00:25:33.611 columbia shushaw regional hospital board and you can help make decisions 388 00:25:33.611 --> 00:25:34.471 that improve 389 00:25:34.471 --> 00:25:39.591 medical care at vernon hospital so you know it's 390 00:25:39.591 --> 00:25:42.831 a big job there's lots of things you have to learn 391 00:25:44.085 --> 00:25:47.645 And it's, it's, every year it's getting bigger and bigger. 392 00:25:59.405 --> 00:26:00.565 Any comments? 393 00:26:01.745 --> 00:26:05.305 Um, yeah, I'd show up in a heartbeat. 394 00:26:06.305 --> 00:26:11.405 Since I've moved here, I've made it pretty well appointed to involve myself wherever I 395 00:26:11.405 --> 00:26:11.745 can. 396 00:26:12.160 --> 00:26:17.020 community. I'm a big community guy. There's several reasons for that. A big one is my son. 397 00:26:17.560 --> 00:26:22.580 Anybody in Falkland knows my son, Darth. They see him, they know him. It's important 398 00:26:22.580 --> 00:26:23.620 that he sees them 399 00:26:23.620 --> 00:26:27.760 and knows that. So I've gotten myself really involved in the community. Second reason I do it 400 00:26:27.760 --> 00:26:32.960 is because this is my home. I've let some people slang a transplant. I was born 401 00:26:32.960 --> 00:26:33.480 and raised in 402 00:26:33.480 --> 00:26:38.760 Winnipeg. I moved to Kamloops and then I moved to Falkland. And I've never felt 403 00:26:38.760 --> 00:26:39.240 anywhere 404 00:26:39.240 --> 00:26:40.160 was... 405 00:26:40.234 --> 00:26:45.874 them until I moved here. So, believe me, this town, the people, all 406 00:26:45.874 --> 00:26:46.954 of it, I'll be there. 407 00:26:47.254 --> 00:26:48.394 I'll be there and I'll fight. 408 00:26:56.774 --> 00:27:01.834 I know some of you don't know me, but I do, again, I love 409 00:27:01.834 --> 00:27:03.774 it out here. I make an effort 410 00:27:03.774 --> 00:27:07.334 to go to things that I find the time to do. 411 00:27:08.308 --> 00:27:13.588 I hope, I mean, whether or not I get elected, the whole point to me of having 412 00:27:13.588 --> 00:27:18.828 three people sitting up here is at least hopefully one of us you feel would represent you 413 00:27:18.828 --> 00:27:20.028 in the CSRD. 414 00:27:20.208 --> 00:27:22.388 And that's why we do these things, right? 415 00:27:22.528 --> 00:27:26.048 So that everybody gets to choose the person that they think is the best. 416 00:27:27.028 --> 00:27:28.088 Maybe it's not me. 417 00:27:28.268 --> 00:27:28.808 That's okay. 418 00:27:29.208 --> 00:27:33.388 But my point is that I want to be there for this community. 419 00:27:35.368 --> 00:27:36.308 Not just for... 420 00:27:36.383 --> 00:27:41.443 For Silver Creek, for Ranchero. I've already made new friends just from doing this 421 00:27:41.443 --> 00:27:46.523 and I love it. It's awesome. So that's it. That's all I have to say about that. 422 00:27:47.003 --> 00:27:49.143 Why are you here most for our communities? 423 00:27:52.023 --> 00:27:58.063 My wife and I are active members of the Falkland Seniors. And 424 00:27:58.063 --> 00:28:03.283 quite a few years ago, I was showing up at community 425 00:28:03.283 --> 00:28:04.283 association meetings. 426 00:28:04.457 --> 00:28:10.417 But I got kind of busy with my farm and with other art farm activities 427 00:28:10.417 --> 00:28:12.097 that were earning me a few bucks. 428 00:28:12.457 --> 00:28:18.257 So I wasn't showing up to the Falkland Community Association meetings very 429 00:28:18.257 --> 00:28:18.637 often. 430 00:28:19.097 --> 00:28:24.337 But we did go to the bean feed every year for 34 431 00:28:24.337 --> 00:28:27.837 years that we've been here and contributed a dish to that. 432 00:28:28.277 --> 00:28:31.757 And that was always a good time. 433 00:28:32.531 --> 00:28:37.551 to meet uh familiar people and new people 434 00:28:37.551 --> 00:28:41.571 that's a great event so it's not as if i never showed up 435 00:28:41.571 --> 00:28:46.591 anywhere that's not true renee but i was a little bit slack 436 00:28:46.591 --> 00:28:48.351 about showing up to community association 437 00:28:48.351 --> 00:28:49.891 meetings that's true 438 00:28:56.111 --> 00:29:00.211 what are you guys going to do about the roads around here and the park 439 00:29:00.605 --> 00:29:05.705 was supposed to be done like cedar hill road is a death trap the asphalt's 440 00:29:05.705 --> 00:29:07.305 gone over half the lane 441 00:29:07.305 --> 00:29:12.425 i come home in a semi truck people use it as a pull out the parking spot so 442 00:29:12.425 --> 00:29:13.345 i have to stop with 443 00:29:13.345 --> 00:29:18.405 the accident and my trailer sticking on the highway and we asked years 444 00:29:18.405 --> 00:29:19.465 ago for a left hand 445 00:29:19.465 --> 00:29:24.265 turn lane coming out of vernon coming this way they give us a right hand lane right through 446 00:29:24.265 --> 00:29:28.605 this where the bus stop is and vehicles fly on the cedar hill 447 00:29:28.680 --> 00:29:33.920 road doing like 90k when kids are getting on the bus somebody's gonna die 448 00:29:33.920 --> 00:29:36.720 there and what are you 449 00:29:36.720 --> 00:29:41.240 guys gonna do to fight to get all these roads like you look at our you gotta be able to fight 450 00:29:41.240 --> 00:29:46.320 get road maintenance done like we pay probably over half of what the 451 00:29:46.320 --> 00:29:47.920 liter of fuel costs goes 452 00:29:47.920 --> 00:29:53.280 to tax so where is where's that going what are you guys gonna do to get our roads maintained 453 00:29:53.280 --> 00:29:54.620 and upgraded and fixed 454 00:29:57.934 --> 00:30:03.114 Well, I think the CSRD is constantly barking at the Ministry of Transportation for 455 00:30:03.114 --> 00:30:03.534 maintenance 456 00:30:03.534 --> 00:30:05.654 and upgrade and things that have to be done. 457 00:30:05.874 --> 00:30:09.274 It's a never-ending task. 458 00:30:09.914 --> 00:30:11.834 And I agree with you 100%. 459 00:30:11.834 --> 00:30:17.574 I think any one of us would be the voice for 460 00:30:17.574 --> 00:30:18.934 the community on all that. 461 00:30:19.554 --> 00:30:20.834 Do you agree, John? 462 00:30:20.994 --> 00:30:21.614 Yeah, I agree. 463 00:30:22.994 --> 00:30:23.514 Yeah. 464 00:30:24.828 --> 00:30:26.188 We'll carry it forward. 465 00:30:26.948 --> 00:30:27.508 Don't worry. 466 00:30:32.148 --> 00:30:33.628 Roads are provincial. 467 00:30:34.108 --> 00:30:36.368 I mean, I think most of us recognize that. 468 00:30:36.748 --> 00:30:37.808 Well, I know that road. 469 00:30:38.028 --> 00:30:39.148 You guys saw that. 470 00:30:39.608 --> 00:30:44.628 I would be happy to tell those guys, make them drive on our roads. 471 00:30:44.968 --> 00:30:46.628 I went to the police station, too. 472 00:30:46.748 --> 00:30:47.848 We were out here. 473 00:30:48.008 --> 00:30:50.388 It was a guy who had a losing last year. 474 00:30:50.848 --> 00:30:52.768 I hadn't hit it on the head of the map. 475 00:30:53.343 --> 00:30:58.403 It was in the middle of the road, I felt about to go to my truck, there was six car cars sitting here. 476 00:30:59.063 --> 00:31:03.063 We were 25 minutes waiting. By 291, we were fine. 477 00:31:05.243 --> 00:31:08.423 What's the point of having a police station here provided a control letter? 478 00:31:09.283 --> 00:31:13.283 If something wrong, there's all the time to go, let's fly with a control, we're going to do nothing. 479 00:31:14.583 --> 00:31:19.823 I am going to present it with you. When all that stuff was going on at the school last year, you called 480 00:31:19.823 --> 00:31:20.903 the police and it... 481 00:31:20.977 --> 00:31:25.997 have to come from N or B. And also, there was an RCMP officer 482 00:31:25.997 --> 00:31:27.137 driving through here from 483 00:31:27.137 --> 00:31:32.357 Kamloops. They just happened to be by the school, and the principal asked 484 00:31:32.357 --> 00:31:32.677 them if they 485 00:31:32.677 --> 00:31:37.897 could sit there, and they asked why. They had no idea that 486 00:31:37.897 --> 00:31:39.137 anything was even going on 487 00:31:39.877 --> 00:31:44.477 So were you guys, were you guys planning to actually be an RCMP officer here? 488 00:31:44.477 --> 00:31:48.897 Yeah, yeah. I think this is ridiculous also. I don't know. 489 00:31:49.051 --> 00:31:54.191 I don't know what I can do exactly but I'm 100 % on board. I don't know about those guys, but 490 00:31:54.191 --> 00:31:57.751 probably I turned that on to you. 491 00:31:57.931 --> 00:32:02.951 Well, I'll ask Ann Peeble. She's one of the local people 492 00:32:02.951 --> 00:32:08.371 who is behind trying to get an RCMP detachment station 493 00:32:08.371 --> 00:32:12.711 here so that those guys work out of that office every day. Am I right, Ann? 494 00:32:13.451 --> 00:32:16.131 Exactly. But it's new. I just started. 495 00:32:17.125 --> 00:32:21.365 I was going to say to everybody where it is at the appropriate moment, which is probably 496 00:32:21.365 --> 00:32:26.725 where it is now. I'm looking for, I'm going to need a 100 % petition, 497 00:32:27.345 --> 00:32:29.785 sign, Westwald. What 498 00:32:29.785 --> 00:32:34.805 my platform is, is that the closest detachment to 499 00:32:34.805 --> 00:32:37.245 this area is Armstrong, geographically 500 00:32:37.245 --> 00:32:42.565 I'm talking, and then the next one is Campbell's. So this area has grown 501 00:32:42.565 --> 00:32:43.625 exponentially. 502 00:32:45.200 --> 00:32:50.320 This building in my lifetime was built, my husband was mounting here, stationed 503 00:32:50.320 --> 00:32:55.560 here, and it was built brand new, well, I'm in my 70s, so let's go back 504 00:32:55.560 --> 00:32:58.340 30 years, maybe 35 years ago. 505 00:32:58.760 --> 00:33:04.020 So relatively new building, it's got two cells in the bottom. To have it become a coffee shop 506 00:33:04.020 --> 00:33:07.080 for highways is a waste of resources. 507 00:33:07.460 --> 00:33:12.660 So the endeavor is to go to the provincial government, which is the funding 508 00:33:12.660 --> 00:33:13.200 for people. 509 00:33:13.274 --> 00:33:18.394 police and get approval to re -commission this, which 510 00:33:18.394 --> 00:33:21.314 would bring you Mounties that know your 511 00:33:21.314 --> 00:33:26.434 neighbors, Mounties that go to your school, Mounties that know where the community is 512 00:33:26.434 --> 00:33:31.574 on. You know, not high, right? You have community 513 00:33:31.574 --> 00:33:34.414 police right here that you know the names 514 00:33:34.414 --> 00:33:38.774 of, and they know the community, and they know where the problems are. I've had a lot 515 00:33:38.774 --> 00:33:40.674 of people, unfortunately for us. 516 00:33:41.348 --> 00:33:43.348 It isn't unfortunate, but it's just the way it is. 517 00:33:43.688 --> 00:33:48.808 When you have a retired county living in a home that I've been married to for 518 00:33:48.808 --> 00:33:49.668 almost 50 years, 519 00:33:49.768 --> 00:33:53.788 or over 30 years, actually, he's still the peace man. 520 00:33:54.348 --> 00:33:56.348 They phone us, the community. 521 00:33:56.648 --> 00:33:58.828 People phone and ask, what can we do? 522 00:33:59.368 --> 00:34:03.388 The rules are coming off the curtains, and we need help. 523 00:34:03.568 --> 00:34:08.548 And so the only thing I could think of was, why isn't this building functioning? 524 00:34:09.423 --> 00:34:14.443 let's get it operational so it's going to be a big deal so anybody that wants to be a 525 00:34:14.443 --> 00:34:15.083 helper 526 00:34:15.083 --> 00:34:20.123 in creating the petition that i need and energizing signing and 527 00:34:20.123 --> 00:34:20.923 getting it like that 528 00:34:20.923 --> 00:34:25.943 if the government provide much to the city they won't be so trashy because they have 529 00:34:25.943 --> 00:34:26.663 almost 100 530 00:34:27.343 --> 00:34:32.463 community support so that means everybody's got to get their gun however i figured 531 00:34:32.463 --> 00:34:32.983 out i'll try 532 00:34:32.983 --> 00:34:36.403 to get some electronic genius to make it so we can do it 533 00:34:37.497 --> 00:34:50.957 Our police station has been enacted 534 00:34:50.957 --> 00:34:53.177 now for 17 years. 535 00:34:53.457 --> 00:34:57.197 Yeah, it's crazy, right? So it's a little older than I thought I'd known. 536 00:34:58.477 --> 00:35:03.517 But it's still a new building, and there's still no reason to have it 537 00:35:03.517 --> 00:35:04.897 decommissioned, in my opinion. 538 00:35:07.211 --> 00:35:12.251 And so, all these improvements you have are needed to 539 00:35:12.251 --> 00:35:15.791 happen, for sure, but with improvements 540 00:35:15.791 --> 00:35:20.471 come, Jeremy increases the property taxes, and how much are we going to pay for this? 541 00:35:20.471 --> 00:35:24.811 Well, you know what, that's a question that we don't know the answer to, but it's a case 542 00:35:24.811 --> 00:35:30.251 of whether or not you want it, because the good of it outweighs 543 00:35:30.251 --> 00:35:32.091 the bad that exists today. 544 00:35:32.411 --> 00:35:33.571 So, what I'm going to do is... 545 00:35:33.645 --> 00:35:37.865 told is there's a lot of breaking errors. There's a lot of fear in the community with 546 00:35:37.865 --> 00:35:42.945 social issues that are happening. There's no police. They're all the 547 00:35:42.945 --> 00:35:44.305 way hung on. By 548 00:35:44.305 --> 00:35:49.605 the time you get there, the garages are empty, the ship's been stolen, and nobody's 549 00:35:49.605 --> 00:35:50.345 tracking 550 00:35:50.345 --> 00:35:55.425 anybody to make it stop. So if you want that, you're going to have 551 00:35:55.425 --> 00:35:56.845 to think about, and I 552 00:35:56.845 --> 00:36:01.585 don't know the answer to that. When we petition, we'll get the answer. 553 00:36:01.720 --> 00:36:04.120 and then the provincial government will say, 554 00:36:04.220 --> 00:36:07.440 okay, guys, we do this, it's going to cost this or that. 555 00:36:07.760 --> 00:36:08.940 No, I would say this. 556 00:36:09.440 --> 00:36:13.920 The one good news is we've got a building that is wasted. 557 00:36:14.220 --> 00:36:16.660 So they're not going to charge us to build a building. 558 00:36:21.360 --> 00:36:23.740 Okay, we are getting a little bit off topic here. 559 00:36:23.880 --> 00:36:25.560 We're meeting the candidates here. 560 00:36:29.794 --> 00:36:30.734 Yeah, that's the question. 561 00:36:30.754 --> 00:36:33.574 And support, and how do we support that? 562 00:36:34.054 --> 00:36:39.194 I would fully support something like that myself, getting the RCMP more involved here. 563 00:36:39.494 --> 00:36:41.934 Again, I'm going to use the school as a reference. 564 00:36:42.374 --> 00:36:47.474 In everything that went down just after the Tumblr incident, the reality was we 565 00:36:47.474 --> 00:36:48.414 could have had a sequel here. 566 00:36:48.874 --> 00:36:52.914 The RCMP were not very transparent, nor was the school board. 567 00:36:53.854 --> 00:36:57.794 Having RCMP officers here would mean that we'd have more... 568 00:36:57.868 --> 00:37:02.288 and putting more pressure on our MLA to get that done is important. 569 00:37:02.888 --> 00:37:05.768 I also want to touch on the school thing or the playground thing. 570 00:37:06.188 --> 00:37:07.748 That is definitely on my radar. 571 00:37:08.128 --> 00:37:10.928 I've been asked that, like, I don't know how many times, 572 00:37:11.008 --> 00:37:13.228 but just people around town, what happened to it. 573 00:37:13.548 --> 00:37:15.548 I don't know, but I want to get it going again 574 00:37:15.548 --> 00:37:17.228 because our kids deserve a safe place to play. 575 00:37:17.448 --> 00:37:18.468 Period. End of conversation. 576 00:37:18.948 --> 00:37:20.228 There's no two ways about that. 577 00:37:21.308 --> 00:37:25.648 I have just a quick question on all these issues. 578 00:37:27.263 --> 00:37:32.503 When you're, one of you are elected and you're going to represent us for 579 00:37:32.503 --> 00:37:37.503 things like you're talking about, what's the, what is the media outlet that you use so 580 00:37:37.503 --> 00:37:42.543 that, our population so that we can stay in touch? Because 581 00:37:42.543 --> 00:37:47.903 you never, unless you go on Facebook, I never hear anything going on around us in 582 00:37:47.903 --> 00:37:48.503 this community. 583 00:37:48.503 --> 00:37:53.943 Thank you. 584 00:37:54.017 --> 00:37:56.237 Well, I wanted to tell you a new story. 585 00:37:56.397 --> 00:37:59.137 I wanted to do it first here and see if I got moved. 586 00:37:59.317 --> 00:38:00.097 It was a little bit better. 587 00:38:00.257 --> 00:38:01.757 Anybody got me, Ross, not his attorney. 588 00:38:02.157 --> 00:38:04.557 I love the idea of looking up that police office. 589 00:38:04.797 --> 00:38:07.937 But as soon as I got it, I had a sense that I was going to do it. 590 00:38:08.157 --> 00:38:08.957 It was much more serious. 591 00:38:09.437 --> 00:38:10.997 I was going to launch it on that call. 592 00:38:11.057 --> 00:38:13.037 Okay, we're going to move on. 593 00:38:13.277 --> 00:38:14.377 We're going to just do this quick. 594 00:38:14.377 --> 00:38:15.797 We're going to find this in our community. 595 00:38:17.857 --> 00:38:20.457 Yes, and he said that he supports it. 596 00:38:20.537 --> 00:38:21.577 They all agree that we do. 597 00:38:22.091 --> 00:38:27.111 So, we also have a R &D society community 598 00:38:27.111 --> 00:38:28.151 with Zahmic fire. 599 00:38:28.871 --> 00:38:32.311 Now, what are any of you guys involved in, not to know that. 600 00:38:36.351 --> 00:38:41.531 I wanted these guys to do this. 601 00:38:41.651 --> 00:38:45.351 Like, we're going to talk about what the candidates are going to be, not you. 602 00:38:45.751 --> 00:38:47.791 No, it's just not. 603 00:38:48.491 --> 00:38:49.531 All right, folks. 604 00:38:50.905 --> 00:38:52.305 Let's drop this here now. 605 00:38:52.405 --> 00:38:54.385 How do you put this for you guys to share? 606 00:38:54.665 --> 00:38:56.805 And you know it exists, okay? 607 00:38:57.085 --> 00:38:57.905 That's the point. 608 00:39:00.145 --> 00:39:00.805 All right. 609 00:39:01.465 --> 00:39:04.285 There was a question here. 610 00:39:05.265 --> 00:39:10.465 Yeah, just, I have questions for the candidates 611 00:39:10.465 --> 00:39:12.385 because that's what I thought we were doing. 612 00:39:12.645 --> 00:39:14.365 It's not a forum for individuals. 613 00:39:16.305 --> 00:39:18.045 Candidate, Dennis, first off. 614 00:39:18.240 --> 00:39:21.780 We have no RCMP here. That's a joke, okay? 615 00:39:22.080 --> 00:39:25.060 What I want to know is, what are you going to do about it? 616 00:39:25.480 --> 00:39:30.600 I know you have a limited amount, if you're the area director, as to what 617 00:39:30.600 --> 00:39:31.200 you can do, 618 00:39:31.380 --> 00:39:33.420 but what are you going to try to do? 619 00:39:33.580 --> 00:39:36.460 And I'll turn the other two candidates. 620 00:39:36.920 --> 00:39:41.660 And I also want to thank all three of you for standing up, putting your names forward. 621 00:39:41.940 --> 00:39:45.460 But we have to do something about the fact that we have no police. 622 00:39:47.254 --> 00:39:52.414 It's a joke, and we've had them out here. We need them out here again. We're 623 00:39:52.414 --> 00:39:57.534 under Kelowna, and Byrne's under Kelowna, and all the way down, Kelowna is 624 00:39:57.534 --> 00:40:02.574 who we need here, and Byrne, the head cocks, and roast them because that's the only thing 625 00:40:02.574 --> 00:40:07.074 they seem to understand, because they don't, there's no policing. It's a joke. 626 00:40:07.434 --> 00:40:12.834 So what am I going to do about it? I'm going to go to the detachment commander and say, look, this community 627 00:40:12.834 --> 00:40:14.314 is really upset, because... 628 00:40:14.388 --> 00:40:19.228 there's not enough policing going on around here, and you guys aren't showing up enough. 629 00:40:19.548 --> 00:40:20.828 You need to be here. 630 00:40:21.088 --> 00:40:26.308 And I can go on about that a little bit, because my background is policing, Minnesota policing 631 00:40:26.308 --> 00:40:26.948 in Calgary. 632 00:40:27.668 --> 00:40:33.008 In Calgary, they developed a program called Community -Based Policing, and 633 00:40:33.008 --> 00:40:35.768 that's permeated policing across Canada. 634 00:40:36.108 --> 00:40:41.168 But the RCMP and rural detectives don't seem to pay a lot of attention to it, and 635 00:40:41.168 --> 00:40:41.808 they need to. 636 00:40:42.463 --> 00:40:45.703 So I'd be bringing that up to the local detachment commander and say, 637 00:40:46.003 --> 00:40:48.283 how about you guys show up a little more often, 638 00:40:48.783 --> 00:40:50.363 wander around the community a little bit, 639 00:40:50.663 --> 00:40:51.703 meet with the folks, 640 00:40:52.363 --> 00:40:54.363 sit in the coffee shop from time to time, 641 00:40:54.623 --> 00:40:57.143 instead of just driving up and down the street in your cars. 642 00:40:57.483 --> 00:40:58.623 That's not a big deal. 643 00:41:08.443 --> 00:41:10.463 I don't have any like this. 644 00:41:10.537 --> 00:41:15.557 special cop connections. But I can say that I do understand 645 00:41:15.557 --> 00:41:17.377 that the RCMP is not something 646 00:41:17.377 --> 00:41:22.817 that was in our wheelhouse. However, I 647 00:41:22.817 --> 00:41:25.517 also know that we do get opportunities to meet 648 00:41:25.517 --> 00:41:30.617 with them, like officially, where we get to go and tell them, hey, 649 00:41:30.837 --> 00:41:33.077 look, you know, we 650 00:41:33.077 --> 00:41:38.197 pay for this too. Just because we live in the country doesn't mean that we don't 651 00:41:38.197 --> 00:41:38.397 need 652 00:41:38.611 --> 00:41:44.011 police and when was the last time you saw a cop out here that wasn't giving somebody 653 00:41:44.011 --> 00:41:44.431 a speeding 654 00:41:44.431 --> 00:41:49.991 ticket yeah that's the only time like 655 00:41:49.991 --> 00:41:54.631 i i our community is totally underrepresented and like 656 00:41:54.631 --> 00:42:00.511 all of these communities are because we just get ignored on the outskirts of the 657 00:42:00.511 --> 00:42:01.451 rest of the cities 658 00:42:01.451 --> 00:42:06.611 the municipal areas so i'm 100 like willing to go back to tell 659 00:42:06.686 --> 00:42:11.866 those guys that they're not doing it. They're not doing it right. We 660 00:42:11.866 --> 00:42:13.286 deserve to be represented 661 00:42:17.466 --> 00:42:19.226 I'll just add one more thing. 662 00:42:20.746 --> 00:42:21.706 Thank you. 663 00:42:22.466 --> 00:42:27.786 Pat and I shared about this from time to time about what policing was like for us 664 00:42:27.786 --> 00:42:28.086 and what 665 00:42:28.086 --> 00:42:33.146 policing was like for me and how we dealt with folks in different 666 00:42:33.146 --> 00:42:34.266 circumstances and 667 00:42:34.760 --> 00:42:40.740 And I think her husband and I could probably share a lot of common stories. 668 00:42:41.140 --> 00:42:46.700 Her husband was more, I would say, of a sense of community placement 669 00:42:46.700 --> 00:42:47.900 than some. 670 00:42:49.280 --> 00:42:52.020 And it would be nice to see more of that around. 671 00:42:54.260 --> 00:42:59.000 Yeah, I mean, I can't really say anything different from what these two have said. 672 00:42:59.560 --> 00:43:02.280 But I can definitely tell you that if... 673 00:43:02.834 --> 00:43:07.234 the rcmp themselves are not willing to listen i'm definitely going to go to our mla and get 674 00:43:07.234 --> 00:43:12.334 some pressure from the province put on because this is a pretty hot topic here and yes police 675 00:43:12.334 --> 00:43:18.574 presence it's a must um 676 00:43:18.574 --> 00:43:23.754 my name is uh carrie galant i'm on 677 00:43:23.754 --> 00:43:26.334 contact with here my wife lisa and i 678 00:43:26.334 --> 00:43:30.694 moved here two and a half years ago um so 679 00:43:30.908 --> 00:43:35.968 still a freshman in the community still getting to know people which i 680 00:43:35.968 --> 00:43:37.048 don't know very many 681 00:43:37.568 --> 00:43:43.028 been focusing on fixing up the house but um having 682 00:43:43.028 --> 00:43:45.508 come from the coast to here 683 00:43:47.148 --> 00:43:52.268 i'm trying to think of some key points that 684 00:43:52.268 --> 00:43:58.408 stand out for us you know in comparison and 685 00:43:58.408 --> 00:43:58.908 one of the 686 00:43:58.983 --> 00:44:06.483 big things one of the reasons why we moved from the coast was the horrible violent 687 00:44:06.483 --> 00:44:07.563 crime situation 688 00:44:08.093 --> 00:44:13.283 on the coast and in a lot of other places but that's one of the things that 689 00:44:13.283 --> 00:44:13.763 we love 690 00:44:14.343 --> 00:44:19.883 about Falkland is it's a much quieter uh you 691 00:44:19.883 --> 00:44:24.423 know respectful kind of place but that can easily go 692 00:44:24.423 --> 00:44:26.983 out of control and and it's 693 00:44:27.057 --> 00:44:32.097 like to some extent that in little ways is happening 694 00:44:32.097 --> 00:44:36.717 okay and there's been a lot 695 00:44:36.717 --> 00:44:41.737 of talk about you know focusing on the RCMP and getting some big changes 696 00:44:41.737 --> 00:44:41.977 done 697 00:44:41.977 --> 00:44:48.557 but where we lived on the coast was a seniors community and 698 00:44:48.557 --> 00:44:51.237 at one point 699 00:44:51.237 --> 00:44:54.677 because we were getting a lot of break-ins in our area 700 00:44:55.131 --> 00:45:01.531 We finally got the police, the RCMP, to do drive -throughs on 701 00:45:01.531 --> 00:45:05.231 a regular basis, and that helped a lot. 702 00:45:05.611 --> 00:45:10.311 It didn't require a building, it didn't require a detachment and all this kind of stuff. 703 00:45:10.631 --> 00:45:14.831 Those are great things to work on long-term and important. 704 00:45:15.171 --> 00:45:20.451 But some things that can be done very quickly, I spoke to an RCMP, 705 00:45:20.551 --> 00:45:22.831 my wife and I, about a year ago. 706 00:45:23.206 --> 00:45:28.246 He didn't even know. We mentioned that we lived on Tuftakman. He didn't know where 707 00:45:28.246 --> 00:45:28.906 that was. 708 00:45:30.286 --> 00:45:35.266 And I said, well, it's just down from the fire hall. He didn't know where the fire hall was in Falkland. 709 00:45:35.966 --> 00:45:40.266 And, you know, the comment was made about speeding tickets. 710 00:45:40.586 --> 00:45:43.926 To a large extent, it seems like that's all they're doing here. 711 00:45:44.126 --> 00:45:49.326 If all the improvement was to start with was a regular 712 00:45:49.326 --> 00:45:51.206 drive through town, 713 00:45:51.600 --> 00:45:56.680 would make a huge difference especially after hours during the day 714 00:45:56.680 --> 00:45:59.080 we all have eyes on each 715 00:45:59.080 --> 00:46:04.180 other you know that's but we all love about falkland so that's one big thing so 716 00:46:04.180 --> 00:46:06.500 the two issues 717 00:46:06.500 --> 00:46:11.700 that i think are glaring for us being newbies here 718 00:46:11.700 --> 00:46:16.800 is is the rcmd the police enforcement 719 00:46:16.800 --> 00:46:17.880 has to be 720 00:46:19.354 --> 00:46:24.734 roads, yeah, okay, as well as the water, like the water 721 00:46:24.734 --> 00:46:29.574 is horrible, you know, like I ordered 722 00:46:29.574 --> 00:46:34.854 off Amazon a water test kit because I asked for the water 723 00:46:34.854 --> 00:46:38.574 report from the CSRD and I got 724 00:46:38.574 --> 00:46:43.694 this big long scientific, you know, whatever, my wife said, I don't know what the 725 00:46:43.694 --> 00:46:44.074 hell that 726 00:46:44.074 --> 00:46:47.234 is, but I did my own tests. 727 00:46:47.428 --> 00:46:52.508 and uh yeah it's pretty good in a lot of ways but it's 728 00:46:52.508 --> 00:46:55.768 got some glaring deficiencies 729 00:46:56.528 --> 00:47:01.568 like way off the chart deficiencies this is just with cheap water testing 730 00:47:01.568 --> 00:47:02.068 you know 731 00:47:02.068 --> 00:47:07.268 so they're they're they're testing and uh augmenting our water 732 00:47:07.268 --> 00:47:08.268 to send it to us 733 00:47:08.268 --> 00:47:13.408 but there's there's something wrong there and i haven't 734 00:47:13.408 --> 00:47:15.188 heard a good comment about our water 735 00:47:15.503 --> 00:47:21.283 even from the people that were born here yeah well so 736 00:47:21.283 --> 00:47:23.763 we live in a country where we have all 737 00:47:23.763 --> 00:47:28.843 the fresh water in the world you know and we're struggling to get a glass of 738 00:47:28.843 --> 00:47:29.683 water that tastes 739 00:47:29.683 --> 00:47:34.863 okay so there's something wrong with that so the third the third point i'll 740 00:47:34.863 --> 00:47:35.703 make is that 741 00:47:37.203 --> 00:47:42.263 it's obvious to me that the csrd compared to a 742 00:47:42.263 --> 00:47:42.663 town 743 00:47:43.577 --> 00:47:49.577 city anywhere else in dc this is a complicated 744 00:47:49.577 --> 00:47:53.917 convoluted political structure here you know 745 00:47:53.917 --> 00:47:59.677 like it it's really you almost need to be figured out so what 746 00:47:59.677 --> 00:48:02.657 we need here is somebody who's going 747 00:48:02.657 --> 00:48:07.897 to speak up often and loud and fight for us that's 748 00:48:07.897 --> 00:48:11.577 what everyone else is saying here and that 749 00:48:11.651 --> 00:48:18.511 the only way we're going to get what we need involvement is to have a strong presence 750 00:48:18.511 --> 00:48:19.491 there 751 00:48:19.491 --> 00:48:24.771 and a strong presence in the community like has been brought up so um 752 00:48:24.771 --> 00:48:25.771 you know those are my 753 00:48:25.771 --> 00:48:30.891 comments the the one other thing i would ask is for the three of you like to 754 00:48:30.891 --> 00:48:33.211 maybe um indicate 755 00:48:33.971 --> 00:48:38.551 in your minds what are the issues you think are 756 00:48:39.726 --> 00:48:45.166 most important to address over the next four years or you know going forward 757 00:48:45.166 --> 00:48:47.106 uh that you think that 758 00:48:47.106 --> 00:48:50.826 you can uh that you want to work on thank you 759 00:48:57.126 --> 00:49:02.906 so the biggest issue is obviously i can't 760 00:49:02.906 --> 00:49:06.286 because my son is immunocompromised so i'm talking through 761 00:49:06.286 --> 00:49:07.586 the mic i can project louder 762 00:49:07.800 --> 00:49:13.060 want i'm just trying not to try not to flare out the mic as it works so is 763 00:49:13.060 --> 00:49:13.600 that a bit better 764 00:49:14.440 --> 00:49:19.760 you can hear better now um yeah water is a big thing and and you 765 00:49:19.760 --> 00:49:22.300 know i think the more people 766 00:49:22.300 --> 00:49:26.300 you talk to the more you're going to hear that is definitely the one thing that needs to happen 767 00:49:26.300 --> 00:49:31.320 uh hopefully before the four -year terms up you know i'd love to see it accelerated 768 00:49:31.320 --> 00:49:31.900 i'd love to 769 00:49:31.900 --> 00:49:35.740 see the water issue taken care of pretty quick that would be 770 00:49:35.874 --> 00:49:39.434 that anyway so you asked for one and that would be my biggest one. 771 00:49:42.694 --> 00:49:47.854 I agree completely John. The big passionate issue I'm facing right now 772 00:49:47.854 --> 00:49:53.234 is the water and the way of supporting water storage and water 773 00:49:53.234 --> 00:49:53.654 clarity. 774 00:49:54.074 --> 00:49:56.894 The other thing I'll mention too is public safety. 775 00:49:57.594 --> 00:50:02.774 You know one of the beautiful things in this community is the really strong social 776 00:50:02.774 --> 00:50:03.214 network. 777 00:50:03.948 --> 00:50:09.208 Facebook. It's a public safety network. You see 778 00:50:09.208 --> 00:50:12.148 somebody saying, well, I just saw a truck 779 00:50:12.148 --> 00:50:16.468 on our driveway overnight. Here's the license number. Keep your eye out for it. That sort 780 00:50:16.468 --> 00:50:21.788 of thing comes up from time to time. Actually, it comes up quite regularly. Any 781 00:50:21.788 --> 00:50:22.328 suspicious 782 00:50:22.328 --> 00:50:27.828 activity is reported to all the groups, and people 783 00:50:27.828 --> 00:50:30.088 respond to that. And I think that sort 784 00:50:30.088 --> 00:50:31.948 of networking, this is the... 785 00:50:32.023 --> 00:50:36.083 looking after itself through social media and it works. 786 00:51:01.277 --> 00:51:06.477 They're not going to ignore you because as far as they're concerned, you're all happy and, you 787 00:51:06.477 --> 00:51:08.277 know, life is wonderful here. 788 00:51:08.577 --> 00:51:13.717 So if we see anything going on in the community, the first thing 789 00:51:13.717 --> 00:51:16.577 that comes to my mind is we can hold the police. 790 00:51:17.517 --> 00:51:22.957 Unless we hold the police and report the incident, whatever it is, no 791 00:51:22.957 --> 00:51:28.097 matter how many people are here, it's not going to put a blip on our... 792 00:51:28.171 --> 00:51:33.491 map and they won't pay attention and if you light up the entire 793 00:51:33.491 --> 00:51:35.811 map as far as they're concerned 794 00:51:35.811 --> 00:51:41.091 they'll pay attention because you know like we we had this uh world 795 00:51:41.091 --> 00:51:42.611 famous drug truck down 796 00:51:42.611 --> 00:51:43.171 down 797 00:52:05.146 --> 00:52:15.546 And the word 798 00:52:15.546 --> 00:52:18.766 is 9 -1 -1, and yell, gun, and hang up. 799 00:52:18.966 --> 00:52:20.486 They'll track the call and throw off. 800 00:52:26.560 --> 00:52:31.760 The original question? Can 801 00:52:31.760 --> 00:52:32.360 you repeat? 802 00:52:33.400 --> 00:52:34.080 Yeah, can you repeat? 803 00:52:39.320 --> 00:52:44.540 Well, I'm going to be honest in that I've never done this before, so the first year 804 00:52:44.540 --> 00:52:47.020 at least is going to be a huge learning curve for me. 805 00:52:47.480 --> 00:52:49.720 So there's going to be a lot of work.