De Clarke/ Cortes Currents - The second party of an interview with Regional Director Mark Vonesch about whether Cortes Island should incorporate. As Mark says, “The worst that can happen really, if we bring this to the Province and it’s approved and we start this process, the worst that can happen is that we’d learn a lot about local governance. We’d have opportunities to have conversations and speak to each other and explore the options. And in the end maybe we would vote it down… but this is a petition just simply saying, Hey, let’s see if there’s a better way. Let’s explore it and let’s decide for ourselves what makes sense.”

Since the Province would fund the consultation and research process, Mark feels there is no risk to Cortes residents in pursuing it.