Dear Editor:
With thanks to the North Shore News, May 5, I see that all of 60 people turned up at the Kay Meek Centre in West Vancouver to hear what our provincial election candidates had to say for the big day, May 14. My math isn't that good but from recent stats on the web it means to me that attendance was 60 souls out of 36,949 residents of voting age in the Sea to Sky riding. What a feat of disinterest!
Let's look at West Van municipal elections, last time around, when less than 25 per cent turned out to vote for mayor and council, except for the mayor who won by acclamation (no one else wanted the job?) and now he's fussed because West Vanners don't want the present plans for Ambleside waterfront. In this at least we see a surviving shred of democracy.
So, carry on most of us, just as we are doing towards the day when our grandchildren will have to learn about democracy from the web, those who fought to get it and fought to keep it - and why it was lost.
Sheena Vennesland West Vancouver
