Sounds tacky, but a line from the Avengers movie applies to the situation underway at Woodwynn Farms. The film has rhetoric about doing the wrong thing for the right reason.
The same applies to the illegal camp set up on the farm. It goes against Central Saanich bylaws and against permission from the Agricultural Land Commission. Tents at the farm house people from the region’s homeless community as an attempt at fulfilling the goal of housing a few folks from the street on the farm, which is pitched as a therapeutic community.
Some would say politics and bureaucracy have gotten in the way of what executive director Richard Leblanc wants to achieve at Woodwynn. Others argue his plan isn’t right for that location or that it needs refinement altogether.
Now, Leblanc is certainly flouting bylaws, but is he doing the wrong thing for the right reason? The cause is noble, but Leblanc has a lot of work to do to make his program irresistible to those who can give him the right to see his full-fledged plan in action.