Editor:

I don't know what the value of all the timber that the Lakes District has left is.

I have heard hundreds of millions and even a billion. Whatever the figure, it is substantial. Yet our local politicians have to go like beggars to corporations and the provincial government just to provide basic recreation facilities to the local residents.

A greater percentage of the revenue from this industry should automatically go to the communities where it comes from.

Money comes in to extract these resources, but the benefits end up in the Lower Mainland as mega projects and street parties.

Our schools close and residents are driving hundreds of kilometres for basic medical care, while Vancouver is declared the most liveable city in the world.

The province is being poorly managed. Trains and ships are hauling our resources away and B.C. is now 60 billion dollars in debt.

Meanwhile, we in North don't have anything to show for it.

Raymon Betemps