¿Dónde está Gregor y Kerry?
Where's Kerry? It's a real life game of "Find Someone Accountable"
"Es Gregor Robertson y Kerry Jang evitar consulta pública?" That's what we'd like to know, too. Who's going to be accountable for the HEAT mess created by Gregor Robertson and Kerry Jang? Not them if they have their druthers.
First we got reports that emails being sent to the Mayor on Burrard Bridge Monday (at gregor.robertson@vancouver.ca) were bouncing back to the senders. A coincidence? We thought so, but it sure seems strange that on a day when the Mayor thought he was going to take supreme abuse from the public (he didn't) that Vancouver's I.T. department allowed Hizonner's inbox to overflow.
Then we heard Councillor Kerry Jang was a no-show on CBC radio on Wednesday morning when the topic was the HEAT shelter calamity. Hmm. Maybe he was double-booked? Overslept? Again, we're ready to cut some slack.
There's also the matter of the 30-day "consultation" Minister Rich Coleman requested the City begin engaging in regarding the Howe Street HEAT shelter. We're 15 days into that and residents haven't been notified once about a meeting. Jang suggests that he and his colleagues are just taking their time:
"We want to make sure we do it right," Jang said. "We don't want to have a meeting where citizens just yell at you. We want to solicit actual feedback which is useful."
"Useful?" Someone might want to remind Kerry that he was elected to listen Vancouver's communities, and not pick and choose what he wants to hear and when.
