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Trustee calls out election process
City will appeal decision Mayor says Burnaby will continue to do everything it can to block pipeline expansion
BCA decides in secret who is going to run, and win, chair and vice-chair positions
By Tereza Verenca
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Elections at the Burnaby Citizens Association-dominated school board didn’t run as smoothly as usual Monday night. Every year, the board is required by provincial legislation to elect (or re-elect) a chair, vicechair, and representatives to the B.C. School Trustees Association (BCSTA) and B.C. Public School Employers’ Association (BCPSEA). For years, only one candidate has been nominated for each position, and the annual event is usually a brisk, well-oiled procedure for the Burnaby board, which has been made up entirely of BCA members for eight years. This time, however, secondterm trustee Meiling Chia threw her colleagues a curve. Trustee Larry Hayes had nominated chair Ron Burton to serve another term in the top spot, but Chia then nominated trustee Gary Wong. Wong appeared to be taken aback and declined the nomination, and Burton was acclaimed chair for a third consecutive oneyear term. Chia then asked the new chair
DAILY STROLL: Pauline and her husband CT Chung walk this Deer Lake Park trail almost every day, rain or shine – or snow. Walking in the snow, the couple said, was like “walking in sand.” PHOTO CHUNG CHOW
A handful of First Nations, non-governmental agencies and cities – including Burnaby – will appeal the federal cabinet’s approval of the proposed Trans Mountain expansion project next week. Mayor Derek Corrigan told the NOW the city must submit its documents to the Federal Court of Appeal before Christmas. “(It’s) a very short time period for appeal, 15 days I think, so it doesn’t give us much time to get ready for it,” he said. “Again, it continues the process we’ve been committed to, exhausting the legal remedies that are available to us and making sure we do everything we can within the legal framework to defend our interests.” Corrigan said the city plans to stick to the arguments it has made in the past, including the “failure of the process.” “I think all of us were extremely dissatisfied with the way the process and with the way the process was conducted, and the things the process refused to look at, and those kinds of flaws, I think, are going to be very important to draw to the attention of the court,” he added. The city will also argue that the National Energy Board (NEB) did not properly consider alternative routes and failed to hold oral cross-examination. Rather than oral cross-examination, the NEB allowed intervenors to submit information requests, which gave Kinder Morgan an Continued on page 8
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