Re: "Council votes for public engagement over city names," The Gazette, Dec. 8.
I’m very disappointed in our city council regarding public engagement over city names.
I’m also saddened at what happened to the discovery of the remains of children buried at former residential schools. Our councillor Natalie Joly is jumping the gun to put forward a motion to spend $325,000 to get the ball rolling on this. You mean to tell me everything with the name "Grandin" might be changed some time in the future? Our city council does not seem to realize the costs involved in all this.
Only 4.9 per cent of our Canadian population is Indigenous. To my way of thinking, this does not warrant name changes. In Edmonton the whole ward system was changed to Indigenous names and the problem is nobody is able to pronounce these names.
Wake up city council and start governing what you are supposed to do. The solar-farm fiasco was bad enough. This is worse.
Gerry Segger, St. Albert
