Psychic Reader Fails to See Vision of the Future

by former CRD Director Dietrich Luth

re: Leslie Wallace - no product?

Not only services, but ideas are products and the rights to such creations are proprietary. If these rights are not products, the Commission members are not informed human beings. Moreover the trade in such commodities is protected by the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and the BC Human Rights Act and in the case of the Saturday Market, also by contract law.

To deprive people of their rights under these acts and laws can lead to monetary damage claims against those Commissions, Boards and Individuals responsible for orchestrating these attacks on peoples’ right to livelihood. This is not merely a rejection of an applicant who hasn’t sold before in the Market. This case involves nothing less than the eviction of an established vendor and such evictions will continue as long the victims don’t avail themselves of avenues of redress open to them. Nothing prevents excluded vendors from making their presentations directly to the CRD Board. Courts will only enter the equation when submissions are made to them.

It was the current CRD Director and CRD Board that endorsed the selection process of Commission members which now precludes elected officials from curbing these kinds of excesses directly or for that matter being accountable to the electors. And it is the Commission that has endorsed the creation of the Market Advisory Group whose recomendations it is refusing to review, mitigate or in this case over-ride. Open your eyes folks! The buck rolls on and on to the tune of a million dollars a year. This Commission and CRD Director have so many arms-length mechanisms in place that no-one is taking any leadership role or direct responsibility for its actions.

So whose head will be next on the block? Vendors ought to ask themselves that question and realize that victimization of marketeers is built into this so-called “community-based” process.

When the crunch point comes Commission members will find they are the ones who have no product and that they are just as expendable as the victims that they are now creating.

copyright 1998 Dietrich Luth

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