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Ujjal Dosanjh, a former federal Liberal cupboard minister who’s an instantaneous neighbour of the Marine Drive Golf Membership, concurs. He has usually jogged and walked the Fraser River Path, and finds it “irritating each time” he comes up in opposition to the membership’s barricades.
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As an alternative of a comparatively costly wood walkway alongside the Fraser River, Dosanjh believes the town may simply swap its previous Yew Avenue entitlement by the golf course for a three-metre-wide strip of riverside. He’s not the one one additionally dreaming of finally making a contiguous Fraser River Path from UBC to New Westminster and past.
“What’s flawed with the town?” Dosanjh stated. “Why haven’t they executed something? It’s time for motion.”
Neither veteran metropolis councillor Adriane Carr nor parks board chair Camil Dumont, each members of the Inexperienced get together, responded to Postmedia’s questions.
This isn’t the primary time the Marine Drive Golf Membership has fought for exclusiveness. In 2007, it efficiently argued within the Supreme Court docket of Canada that feminine members had no proper to make use of its male-only lounge.
Barrie Phelp and his household, nevertheless, suppose it’s previous time for the membership to be extra inclusive, particularly because it has benefited not solely from his great-grandfather’s generosity but in addition from taxpayers’ largesse, together with a post-Second World Struggle rescue by the town of Vancouver when it was just about bankrupt.
“It’s turn into fairly clear,” Philps stated, “that individuals want entry to nature. And one of many nice property of this province is the Fraser River.”
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