Extend process

Dear sir:
In regards to the story Jan. 15 in the Fort Frances Times, I thought your newspaper did a fine job in covering the dams issue. If the MNR would have done half the job your paper did, the public meeting would have had three times the amount of people at it.
The consultant the MNR hired to do the mail-out survey and ask for public input missed many property owners on these waterways. I am a property owner on the Upper Manitou and when I ask others on the lake if they had sent in their comments, many said they hadn’t.
I contacted the MNR office and the person taking care of this said that she realized some people were missed, but didn’t know how many or what she could do about it.
I think the answer is an easy one given the dams in question still have five more years of life.
I think the MNR should send out the information to the property owners, they should put another six-month extension on it, they should use our own MNR employees rather than consultants, and they should go through the public meeting again.
If these people weren’t informed of the process, it would be very difficult to send in any comments. Unless, of course, they already know what they want to do with the dams and are just trying to say the public process was done.
Thank you,
Wesley Webb
Goldrock, Ont.