This last June my frustrations with BC SPCA politics had reached a point where I, after batting my head against a brick wall for over two years, handed in my resignation as the Chair of the Nanaimo SPCA Community Advisory Council.
I will not go into details here, as there are simply too many negative issues, but in general I found, that direct communication with the governing Board in Vancouver was totally impossible. Something I have never experienced anywhere before and this I could not work with.
I say all this only to show the reason why I am not with the CAC any more, although I am helping out at the shelter as much as I can.

I have known the Nanaimo shelter for about four years now and know of no single incident, or crisis not having been handled and solved in the highest of professional manner totally in the interest of the animals and often under most trying circumstances.
I and every one else I know has only the deepest admiration for the staff of this shelter already working under most difficult conditions and forever short of funds.

I do not want to hurt the SPCA in any way for obvious reasons, but you and I and many other people know that some serious changes at the head of this Society have to take place and the sooner the better.

Robert Brodgesell