With all due respect I feel that his reaction, which is filled with much negativity and blame regarding this proposal, simply further divides our country and does nothing to restore harmony between our cultures, merely points fingers at the rest of us and fails to look at the positive attributes of the Island Corridor rail link.

Furthermore, suggesting that there is no Business Case for the rail link is a non-starter. What public, transportation project can ever provide a business case, whereby it should be self-supporting in all manners and ways? Most everywhere else, public transportation methods are subsidized by a variety of levels of government, so where’s the business case in that?

If this doesn’t proceed how do the rest of us Islanders cope with the many challenges of improving the future of our transportation woes, including the economic, environmental and traffic congestion challenges that will arise while such “improvements” are being undertaken? What about the bottle necks in other communities such as Mill Bay, Duncan, Ladysmith?

The lack of support and action by Chief Edwards and, in fact by both senior levels of government, are absolutely abhorrent, do not consider the impacts upon other Island communities and their ever-increasing challenges around public transportation, how selfish is that?

As the rest of the country and the world are all fast forwarding to the future by using LRT and other rail transportation solutions to move future populations from place to place our hopes and dreams that would envision a greener and more effective ways of helping our overall nation, Canada, to diminish global warming and replace it with environmentally improved ways and means of transportation on Vancouver Island.

However, I suppose, if the Snow-Naw-As First Nation really wish to retreat into the dark ages, provide for themselves, and continue to point fingers of blame about what they perceive as the dire consequences of a few trains crossing their lands, then let them go. We can simply modify the existing plan and terminate the line in Nanaimo. Done deal!

I’m sure that other Up-Island communities will thank Chief Edwards for everything he’s done to wreak chaos on the highways and destroy the one chance we all have to bring our communities together.