Dear editor:

As we await the publication of Niagara-on-the-Lake’s tourism strategy report, it was amusing to read about the committee members, and others, sanitizing particular sections of the report and collating the numerous changes, prior to releasing the edited edition to council for approval.

Of particular note is the proposal by committee member Vlad Haltigin that one photo in the document be replaced with one that doesn’t make the tourist district look crowded. That’s pathetic.

It was also proposed that a photo of the Niagara-on-the-Lake Ambassadors group be included. Do I see Coun. Wendy Cheropita’s fingerprints all over the Ambassadors’ inclusion?

The report in its final form will clearly be contrived to support the select few representing their sacred cow industries and businesses — in short, a con job and a waste of consultants’ fees.

Do they really think all NOTL residents are stupid?

Samuel Young
NOTL