Metro Vancouver: Environmental Integrity

Vancouver Sun Dept: As drafted, the Regional Growth Strategy is more of a "preservationist" document than a flexible framework for managing and governing a complex region with extensive and growing economic, business and cultural ties to wider North American and global markets, according to Vancouver Sun. Nor does it contain insights, data or indeed any useful information at all on the changing global economy and how this is likely to affect the region in the decades ahead and the has recently published stories and editorial commentary on Metro Vancouver's Regional Growth Strategy. Overall, The Sun's coverage offered an unflattering portrait of the RGS and the process used to develop it, focusing in particular on the absence of a solid economic foundation. Within the region's business community there is little support for the RGS in its present form. This isn't surprising, as suggestions from business and employer organizations appear to have had almost no influence in shaping its content. One key shortcoming is the lack of attention given to the region's industrial base. Although there is passing reference to "a long-term commitment to economic prosperity . and environmental integrity," the RGS has almost nothing to say about the region's industrial structure, job patterns and prospects, or household incomes. As reported in the news.
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