It simply cannot be the case that the City of Vancouver can (legitimately) summarily decide, without any public process and with only the agreement and participation of one cherry-picked consultant who was retained with no competitive process, to chop down a third of the trees in Stanley Park. If it were the case that COV could do this with legal immunity, then it would also be the case that under the pretext of mitigating fire hazard COV could decide on its own volition to remove 100% of the trees and replace them with park lawns and parking lots. Now, that certainly would reduce the risk of fire.
We understand that municipalities may have broad discretion, but there is no plausible way that a con job of this magnitude is immune from public recourse.
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