Dear Editor: Re: Burnaby residents urged to secure garbage after problem bear euthanized, Burnaby NOW, online, April 25.
It’s wrong to blame the residents when this is almost entirely the city’s problem. The City of Burnaby should install bear-proof garbage cans in all city parks and distribute bear-resistant bins to all residents, as we have been asking them for many years.
In my last correspondence with the City of Burnaby sanitation department over two years ago, I was told they were “investigating” and that I was not allowed to buy a bear-proof bin, nor modify the one I had. What could possibly take so long?
Many of our neighbouring cities have had them for years, and WildSafeBC has bins that have already been tested and recommended. Stop blaming the residents.
Michael Coyle, Burnaby
