Editor:
I find it absurd, even immoral for the provincial government to impose 3,607 housing units in the next five years on the City of Delta.
For the mayor and city council to support this is to ignore this city’s current lack of adequate medical care for the residents living here.
Why aren’t our civic leaders as or more vocal about adding to the social services required for our current population?
We only need to look at the problems in any number of U.S. cities who are dealing with increasing population due to many factors to realize that unless adequate medical care and social services precedes population growth it will never catch up.
There are too many people living here now without doctors. Residents here wait too long for medical procedures. Services for our elderly and vulnerable population take too long to materialize if they do at all.
Our representatives need to step up and own these issues. It is wrong to ignore these critical issues and just add housing.
Rick Burdett
