Federal election, September, 2021
The Broadmead Area Residents’ Association hosted and coordinated a virtual All Candidates’ Meeting in association with the Falaise Community Association and the Cordova Bay Association for Community Affairs. The recording is available here.
Provincial election, October, 2020
A B.C. provincial election is being held on October 24th, 2020. Our neighbouring community association, BARA, arranged a virtual all-candidates meeting and invited the FCA to submit questions for the candidates. The three candidates running in the Saanich South riding, Kate O’Conner, Lana Popham, and Rishi Sharma participated in the video conference.
The questions to the candidates covered a wide range of issues, although the moderator indicated that a large number of the questions submitted related to the Site C dam project. BARA has posted the video online and has permitted the FCA to link to it.
Two questions specific to issues affecting our community were asked. At about the 43 minute mark, there was a question related to the regulation of emissions from crematoria. Then, at about the 1 hour and 2 minute mark, there was a question related to traffic noise from the Pat Bay Highway.
Independent of the all-candidates meeting, Bob Lucy sent the following email to all three candidates:
The Falaise Community Association represents 400+ voters who live close to Highway 17, north of Royal Oak Drive.
We have been trying for several years to get the Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure (MoTI) to retrofit a noise barrier along the highway to help reduce the ever-growing highway noise impacts on our community. A brief history of our efforts is attached.
We found the Province unresponsive to our community association, so are now in the process of asking the District of Saanich to make the noise wall a Saanich project in conjunction with solving our community’s long standing safety concerns around the lack of parking adjacent to the three funeral homes and the unseparated bike lane along Falaise Drive.
If you are elected and the District of Saanich requests the province to prioritize the noise wall as part of a Saanich project to upgrade the safety of Falaise Drive, what new or additional efforts do you suggest you can do to ensure that MoTI takes on that Saanich project in your constituency?
Thank you for considering this question. Our community would appreciate receiving your response in time to include it in our Falaise Focus newsletter which will be circulated the week before the election.
Bob Lucy
President
Falaise Community Association
Two candidates responded to his request. We have included their responses as an insert in the fall newsletter and they can be viewed here.