Whose job is it to protect farmland?

Dear Premier John Horgan: The issue we have is 265 acres of property in the Charlie Lake area, with two opposite zonings that we are taxed on, but can use neither.

No one will take the responsibility of rectifying it.

Does the land commission, an appointed committee, have the legal right to over rule our democratically-elected government?

A Statute of Law was issued by the province re-zoning our Class 6 land from agriculture to residential — I might add, for the correct reasons. Does this committee have the legal right to overwrite this Statute of Law back to agriculture or prevent us from using this registered zoning already in place in our official community plan?

More importantly, this non-professional committee was appointed to save farmland for future foodland, with which we concur.

Is your government going to allow this committee to over rule as well, the “doctors of the land” credentialed agrologists (in this case four agrologists all saying the same thing), and keep non-farmland in the reserve while on the other hand allowing many thousands of acres of established farmland out in the same area, albeit closer to For St. John?

The Land Commission has had their own agenda for the past 20 years and it is not to save farmland in this area.

Even more importantly, given the above, and given that this committee thinks they have the legal right to over-rule our government, and given that they think they should have the authority to over-rule provincially-licensed professional agrologists while they themselves are not, do you think the people of this province deserve, or will even accept this travesty of justice and integrity anymore than they did the HST?

I’m hoping you can restore my faith in government efficacy

Jo Middleton Kelowna