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Box 543 
Victoria Station
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H3Z 2V5

January 16th 2002

The Honorable Gordon Campbell,
Premier of British Columbia 
P.O Box 9409
Station Provincial Government
Victoria, British Columbia
V8W 9V1

RE: Proposed Cutbacks to the Canadian Avalanche Association's Public Avalanche Bulletin

Dear Premier Campbell,

I am writing to you on behalf of the Alpine Club of Canada, Montreal Section, following 
a public announcement that cutbacks within your Government threaten the funding of the 
Canadian Avalanche Association (CAA) Bulletin.  We do not support these cutbacks to 
the avalanche bulletin and urge you to keep funding this information service we deem 
essential to public safety.

The Alpine Club of Canada, which provides financial support to the CAA, believes the 
Bulletin is an essential public safety service and that its elimination would have serious 
negative impacts on all alpine backcountry users and the Canadian mountaineering 
community.  Lives will unnecessarily be lost!

In addition, the money the British Columbia Government might save each year through 
the funding cuts would be more than used up on avalanche search and rescue missions 
that would be unnecessary if the service remained available.

We therefore urge you to reconsider your planned funding cuts - public safety is at risk 
and this concerns each and every one of our members visiting the British Columbia 
backcountry.  How else could backcountry users find out about avalanche conditions?  
This service is absolutely necessary.


Sincerely,



Isabelle Daigneault
Access and Environment Coordinator
Alpine Club of Canada, Montreal Section


Cc:  	The Honorable Michael DeJong, Minister of Forests
	The Honorable Rich Coleman, Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General
        The Honorable Stan Hagen, Minister of Sustainable Resource Management
	The Honorable Joyce Murray, Minister of Water, Land and Air Protection
	Mr. Bill Valentine, President and CEO, BCAL
        Mr.Bruce Keith, Alpine Club of Canada
	Mrs.Clair Israelson, Canadian Avalanche Association
        All Alpine Club of Canada members
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