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Letter: Mixing broccoli and cauliflower

Textbook example of selective selection
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Mixing broccoli and cauliflower

This letter is in response to your highlighted letter from Bernhard H.J. Juurlink of Mill Bay.

While I am reluctant to be critical of anyone from Saskatchewan, this letter is a textbook example of selective selection.

He is mixing broccoli and cauliflower.

In referencing the modest “profit” of the forestry program he ignores the $700,000 in expenses covered by the forest revenue before we get to profit. That’s the definition of misleading. Further, the average profit is skewed down by the loss of $469,000 in 2020 when the logging pause was implemented. The average “profit” will be even lower once the $777,000 loss in 2021 is factored in. This is by far the lowest profit years.

While people from Vancouver, Toronto, Mill Bay and Saudi Arabia may have thoughts on the forest the $250,000 survey showed people in North Cowichan, who pay the bills, want the program restored.

As for the forest program at the 77 acre Wildwood Farm in Cedar, it’s a wonderful charity totally supported by grants and donations, hopefully including from Mill Bay.

Glen Ridgway

North Cowichan