Yukon NDP Leader Kate White,
Finally, after years of vainly struggling to make our voices heard, our transfer station is gone. A thriving, growing little community has been kneecapped. We've had the rug pulled out from under us by a thoughtless, callous government which prefers lies to engagement.
You let it happen. Why? You were our only hope, but that hope was quickly to be abandoned, as it became clear that you were only willing to invest words and not actions on behalf of the issue. Your words actually enabled the Liberal government as it sought to slash our services.
The fact of your confidence-and-supply agreement, or CASA, calling only for consultations facilitated Yukon government's path of laying down a smokescreen of absolutely fake, insincere consultations in order whitewash their actions. Now, Community Services Minister Richard Mostyn brags about handing out a few little plastic garbage cans to us, as he continues blatantly to lie about the subject every time he opens his mouth in the assembly. The "consultations" were worse than a travesty; not one of our ideas and suggestions were ever given the slightest consideration.
It is an utter absurdity that our transfer station has been closed, even as the truck which once stopped here to empty our bins continues to pass by every week. I do understand politics; I know that various concerns prevented you from acting. But, there is an injunction which dates back to biblical times: "Do justice and let the heavens fall."
An injustice has been done here, and no one in this area is going to forget it.
I have voted NDP all my years, in the belief that it guarded the concerns of the common people over special interests; now, I'm not so sure. You could have gained enduring support in the rural areas; It seems you threw that away. The net result is that people here are deeply disappointed, disillusioned and wholly alienated from government.
Sincerely,
Dave Cartier, Sr.
