To the editor:
Columnist Tom Sandborn recently wrote about the letter signed by Gregor Robertson's team at city hall criticizing Rocky Mountaineer and its conduct in a labour negotiation. The chair of Rocky Mountaineer is Peter Armstrong, who is the volunteer chair of the NPA campaign in the upcoming civic election.
It is clearly not the job of city councillors to interfere with the staff relations in any privately held companies. This is for very good reasons-we cannot know all the facts, we are not HR specialists, and we have no control, nor should we, over private companies.
The important question here is why doesn't Gregor Robertson's team of councillors know this? Are they now planning to interfere with staff relations in every business that has facilities within our city boundaries or is this letter merely a political stunt? Either answer should make voters question the suitability of this confused team to govern our city. We deserve better.
Elizabeth Ball,
Vancouver
