In late August, the 3458 name citizen petition (submitted in May) against locating the remand centre/jail project in Penticton or the RDOS received a brief response from Solicitor General Shirley Bond. Here is a link to a pdf of that letter.
It has recently been discovered that several residents who wrote letters expressing their individual concerns about the remand centre/jail proposal to Ms. Bond received replies which were word for word, almost exactly the same as Ms. Bond's letter in response to the petition. The petition package had also included a detailed covering letter.
It is disappointing that the response to this citizen project appeared to be a "form letter". A more carefully considered reply was properly expected.
