Lyall Atkinson
Are you associated with or running as part of a slate? If so, which one?
No
Do you live in the municipality where you are running, and if so, for how long? If not, what is your connection to that community?
Yes I own 2 houses
What is your occupation, and for how long?
Owner of YOUR FRIEND WITH A TRUCK LTD 23 years
Tell us about your previous elected and/or community experience.
I have worked all or most of the cars shows in and around Victoria ,Sidney ,Lanford , Oak Bay for the last 20 years
Why are you running? What’s your motivation?
The top three reason’s I’m running Marianne Alto has her own agendas she’s not here for the people and she also gave her native band 2000,000 no questions asked and is also a board member , and added a tax to give to the indigenous fund. Stephen Andrews received our votes and promised to help Geoff Young then Join the back on him and joined the other 7 members and voted on their side. Ben Isset was given a 200,000 grant for a society he was on the board of Directors .This is a city I wouldn’t want to live in if any are realected
What are your top three issues?
Crime rate to allow the police chief and Bylaws officers to do their jobs, with out the interference of Lisa Helps
Clean up Pandora street ,enforce 7pm to 7 am camping in parks and have the hotels the provincial government bought closed and send the homeless people to back to the cities and provinces they came from ,then turn one of them into a full locked down recovery center
What’s your vision for your community in 25 years?
I’d like to see the down town core be cleaned up and made move business friendly with out tripping over street people and increase tourism and increase the amount of hotels we use too have
What’s one “big idea” you have for your community?
Clean up the mess the last Mayor and council has done to Our Victoria
