Dear Editor:
I'm sure you're going to get a lot of comment concerning free passes for current and former city civil servants.
Council member Pietro Calendino says the passes are supposed to show an acknowledgement of work done either currently or previously. Perhaps it's time for Coun. Calendino to step down come the next election. These people are civil servants and nothing more! This sense of entitlement that seems to ingrain itself in all political parties would be laughable, except people like me who are part of the great unwashed have to foot the bill for all this, and that does not please me.
Coun. Calendino should be aware that he and all the council were re-elected only because those who ran against them in the last city election were either religious dogmatists or right-wing loonies, as I like to call them.
He and other members of council need to understand that had a viable, sensible group of people run in the last election, today's city council would look a lot different than it is now.
Mark Tyson, Burnaby
