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Are you confident a stakeholders committee will review Greater Vernon's master water plan independently?

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Yes	4
No	27

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Consider a fictional story:

There is a jury trial in a court of law. The independent jury is to make a decision on the merits of a plan that could have alternate options. The presiding judge and the alternate judge both support the proposed plan. The lawyers and the expert witnesses are all supporters and/or creators of the plan in question. The proponents of the alternatives can't present their case, they are not represented by Counsel and have no expert witnesses allowed. Is this fictional trial fixed?

Hopefully, the jury will see through the attempted fix!

"David Sewell, the CAO of RDNO, says their goal now is to create a new master water plan for Greater Vernon.

"It's not an attempt to silence critics, it's to engage and walk through in a reasoned manner what we've done, what we haven't done and why the master plan is where it is, and if we have to make amendments we'll consider those things too."

"Sewell says creating a new master water plan will take input and conciliation on everyone's part.

"Everybody's got an interest in water.  Everybody has valuable input and we've got to make sure we capture that relative to their use of water, the importance of water and also trying to get the people who haven't had an avenue to directly engage into the master water plan up until now." (KISS FM News, 9/18/2015).

I guess that invitation is not extended to everyone, only to those whose views are slanted in a specific direction.

Terms of Reference for the SAC is accessible here. Note that all references relate to the 2012 MWP.

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