Peel public feedback finally made public

After weeks of stonewalling, the Yukon government has finally released the comments it received about the Peel watershed land use plan.

Ever since the Feb. 25 deadline closed, it's been coy about when it was going to share the public's feedback with the public.

Late Thursday afternoon, it sent out a news release saying all the comments were now available on its peelconsultation.ca website.

It's arranged them by method of communication - emails or voice mails or whatever - and by community.

It's also stripped out all the names of the people who made the submissions, whether they wanted them to or not.

That'll make for more confusion as people sift through the muddle, perhaps trying to find their own entry or simply interested in what others had to say.

At the same time, the government released a 27-page summary report, prepared by J.P.Flament Consulting Services. Flament was part of the government's consultation team at most of the community consultations, acting as the "Wal-Mart greeter" who helped to steer people to the various "information stations."

In all more than 10,000 people answered the government's call for comment during the public consultation period this past winter.

More than 7,500 of those favoured the Peel planning commission's final recommended plan and urged the government to accept it.