Former Senior Parks Canada Officials Speak Out Against Lake Louise Ski Area Expansion

If you blinked you missed it. The “it” here would be what Parks Canada likes to call its “public engagement” process regarding guidelines for the development and use of the Lake Louise Ski Area. Three weeks…that’s how much time Canadians had to comment on the guidelines, guidelines developed, in private, by Parks Canada and Ski Lake Louise. Later in this issue you’ll read Sean Nichols assessment of these guidelines. Below you can see what former senior officials from Parks Canada felt about these guidelines in an open letter they wrote to the federal environment minister…it’s far from flattering. By Ian Urquhart