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Due to protest from Alderman Phil Ranger, about these time and
Speaker limitations, five people were allowed to speak, each restricted
to five minutes each. I, fer one, protested very strongly, and
quite rightly, I feel, that on such a complex, far-reaching issue,
this was insufficient time for me to speak for all the concerns of
the residents, farmers, recreationists, and naturalists that had signed
a total of two hundred signatures to our petitions. I was given
six minutes before being gavelled.

Later, when Alderman Len Traboulay made false and misrepresentative
statements about the wishes of the people on the north side of Dominion,
about petitioners in the audience, Mr. Ron Watt and Mr. John Sullivan,
particularly, our only recourse and option , athe for rebuttal, other
than to iet these incorrect impressions stand, was to have to shout out
over Mr. Traboulay's words, our corrections and protests at false

interpretation.

Surely we can do things and should be allowed to do things

in @ more civilised way than this,by u having Council
be required to adopt and follow democratic procedures, resulting in
fair input and information to all.
We obviously seem to have an information problem in Port Coquitlam,
to put it mildly, where it seems only a privileged, “lucky," or
diligent few find out what decisions and discussions are going on
at City Council "publics" meetings.
This is the age of the wheel and the printing press. Let's use
them to let all Port Coquitlam residents, property owners, and tax payers

know what's going on, rather than requiring the aged, the infirmed, °