To the Editor,
Re: City covering a portion of Bestwick’s legal fees, Jan. 20.
Like most citizens, I am appalled at council’s decision to reimburse Coun. Bill Bestwick’s legal fees on the conflict of interest allegations.
Now that they have done so, we, the taxpayers whose money actually paid for it, are entitled to see the contents of the legal opinions we paid for.
In fact, I call upon the city and Bestwick to release the full contents of all legal opinions immediately to allow Nanaimo citizens to judge for themselves the scope of the ‘conflict of interest’.
If this is not done within a week, I am sure the local media watchdogs will file freedom of information requests to finally shed light on this disgraceful coverup.
Gary Korpan
Nanaimo