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New Minister at CSCD, responsible for UBC oversight
Posted By Neal Yonson On July 30, 2015 @ 10:52 am In Asides,News | Comments Disabled
New Minister at CSCD, responsible for UBC oversight
A small provincial cabinet shuffle occurred this morning, installing a new minister of Community, Sport, and Cultural Development (CSCD). CSCD is the provincial ministry that is supposed to provide oversight on governance and land development at UBC and in the UEL. The key words there being supposed to – in practice these areas are treated like neglected children. Peter Fassbender, a Surrey MLA, will now be at the helm.
Here’s an updated brief history of who’s been in charge of UBC oversight:
The even shorter summary of 5 years of UBC oversight by the provincial government:
Metro Vancouver –> Bill Bennett –> Ben Stewart –> Stephanie Cadieux –> Ida Chong –> Bill Bennett –> Coralee Oakes –> Peter Fassbender
While Oakes’s tenure at the top of CSCD was shockingly long at over 2 years, the portfolio is still averaging more than a minister per year since UBC was given quasi-independence on matters of land development, independence which has been used to claim that the students are not people [2], and to have property developers to write their own regulations. [3]
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[1] Municipalities Enabling and Validating Act (No. 3): http://www.bclaws.ca/EPLibraries/bclaws_new/document/ID/freeside/00_01044_01#part10
[2] students are not people: http://ubcinsiders.ca/2013/05/ccp-discards-10000-students-from-campus-population-counts/
[3] property developers to write their own regulations.: http://ubcinsiders.ca/2015/06/ubc-taps-property-developer-to-lead-pay-for-planning-review/
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