Process, which requires voters to take the trouble of submitting letters opposing removal of parkland, is cumbersome and undemocratic, readers say.
If our Burnaby council was so sure that removing 21 acres from our parkland was such a great idea, why didn't they have a referendum to seek the views of the Burnaby residents?
The last election in Burnaby in 2022 only 32,251 votes were cast. That is a total of 19.7 per cent of Burnaby eligible voters. Yet more than half of the total vote from the last election has to take the effort to obtain an alternative approval process form and then submit it.
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