competing ideas

Article from the Georgia Strait:  Competing ideas for Riverview balance mental-health care with community living.

Letter to the editor Tri-City News:

More must be done to save Riverview Hospital in Coquitlam.

This property should be kept totally in public control in perpetuity, market housing, in any form does not belong there. The property was primarily built on the backs on the patients, with them knowing that it was theirs, and now we have a government that chooses to look the other way, because they see a few dollars in their pockets; the chances of any land sale money being directed into specialized homes for challenged people is a false one;  over 200 acres was sold previously of the property, and not one cent came back into the coffers of the hospital. How much of the Tranquille, or Woodlands land sales came back into the hospital system, NONE. The province is littered with many more examples, where lands previously devoted to health care were removed and sold, and the monies put into general revenue. I do not see any change in this pattern in the foreseeable future