Dear editor,
Perhaps when our own city council adheres to some accounting principles like full disclosure, we can look to their pithy advice on an issue such as sneaky taxation, a category that even Mr. Presley acknowledges was "a poor job."
However, they forget to acknowledge that sneaky taxation is a practice that has been in play for years in Courtenay. Sneaking through latecomer charges and years of interest charges, retroactively taxing landowners, not disclosing pertinent information to the assessment authority, frequent in-camera meetings, etc. doesn't make this councillor much of an authority on the right thing to do!
Bill Bate,
Courtenay