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actually a certain distance away from a rapid transit hub it's a transit oriented area and the folks in Saanich know all about the fun in terms of interpreting that but one of the critiques that I leveled at the current Langford Council some of you may recall is that the Woodlands Trailer Park would have been among the areas either automatically up zoned or seemingly automatically up zoned because it's close enough to the rapid transit corridor.

And instead of density, they were going to put a park and trees in there, which I criticize them for in addition to the evictions.

The problem, though, is that Stu Young has not said, to my knowledge, that he would have left everything there as is.

But the footprint of the city is, uh, is, is, is big.

You know, to Nanaimo, to Victoria, and Saanich put together, we're bigger than Surrey, and yet our population is only one-third of Victoria.

Yeah.

So that's what we need to grow the population and, uh, grow the tax base-

It's always been denied.

The City of Victoria is very comfortable admitting that the disproportionate services that it has on offer in the City of Victoria, when you compare it to either Saanich or perhaps North Saanich, Sydney, that sort of area, or the West Shore even, is attracting homeless residents from the outlying areas in the region towards the core, overwhelming their services.

We hear that accusation made commonly, usually as cold weather is arriving, as the days grow shorter around this time of the year, come to think of it.

You cannot adopt that view where the City of Victoria complains that a disproportionate allocation of services is causing unsheltered individuals to migrate from other parts of the capital region and overwhelm Victoria.

Uh, get Langford to help.

Get Colwood to help.

Get Saanich to help.

Get Esquimalt to help.

I don't find it very satisfying, and yet it's the explanation that I have right now, and I do appreciate your understanding in these things.

BC Green leader, who by the way, is running in Saanich North and the Islands, and all of you can vote for in Saanich North and the Islands, and is also contesting other ridings here in the core and elsewhere, Emily Loewen speaking about the Green offering for healthcare earlier today.

And we'll end the reliance on private agency nurses.

We'll support healthcare workers by reviewing loan forgiveness and paid practicums for all healthcare students to ensure that students can actually afford to work and live in the most expensive province in Canada.

[laughs] Jeremy Valeriote is the other, uh, incumbent Green Party MLA.

He holds the riding for West Vancouver-Sea to Sky.

Rob Botterill technically was the incumbent in Saanich North and the Islands here on Vancouver Island.

He's not running again.

Gardeners may be more forgiving.

A woman in Saanich says the lizards cleared every slug out of her yard, and she finally got a strawberry crop.

It all traces to twelve lizards released on purpose in nineteen seventy when a roadside zoo in central Saanich shut after its owner died, and to a climate that suits an animal from Italy rather well.

Down Island, a reckoning carved in granite.

Liam Razel of the Nanaimo News Bulletin reports a new monument has opened minutes from the legislature in Victoria honoring the Japanese Canadians interned during the Second World War.

But other than that, you know, there's going to be more challenges in terms of how many days or what it's listed as.

Does it have to be licensed as a bed and breakfast? Can it only be one room in your house, like in Saanich, things like that? So the easiest would be essentially Sydney or the West Shore.

We're going to be able to be really successful for you.

The other spaces, we'll have to look at your situation and see if it makes sense.

each municipality? Like, and maybe their...

Yeah, so there's a lot of them where it's just like a hard no.

Like North Saanich, Central Saanich, Saanich 10 are just like no. Saanich, there's a few different ways to do it.

So you can be a proper bed and breakfast where you have to provide breakfast every day.

Certainly Dirksen and, and, um, and Eby.

Today, Emily Loewen of the Greens for the first time has left the island, or left her Saanich, uh, Gulf Islands and parts of Victoria.

She's over in Squamish 'cause they've got the seat there.

West Vancouver-