It’s obvious that the UNA doesn’t have the legal jurisdiction – and, having read the reports from the meeting I would suggest that was not all that was said nor was it to core of what was asked.

Here’s the problem with the governance model west of Blanca – on the UEL a group of r owners rule in consort with the province, at UBC a rather wealthy group in control of the BoG rule in consort with a privatized development firm.

Students have a minimal authority in their student associations (the one’s that are just AMS Clubs).

In Student residences UBC Housing rules with a benign neglect (which can at times be intrusive).

Over in the five non-institutional residential areas the UNA governs a limited range of services as delegated by the BoG.

What we need out here west of Blanca is a real local government that is elected by all residents, not a series of small tributary local states ruling under various partial authorities.

But, back to Emergency Preparedness, without a plan in the context of mushrooming residential development is a recipe for disaster. UBC’s plans does not include the residential neighbourhoods and it barely goes beyond the issue of employees (most health and safety matters are explicitly for or about students under workers compensation laws). Metro has not specific plans that include the UBC area – nothing more than their boilerplate set of policies, but they have no capacity to do more than send staff out to talk waste and recycling – that’s about the extent of their planning for this area.

So, while your comment is cutely snarky, sadly it misses the gravity of the issue. It such a different tone then you usually follow – I wonder, you’re not taking a course from anyone on the EP Committee are you? ;)