Hopeful campers looking to book a site at Homesite Creek Campground on B.C.’s Sunshine Coast will make a puzzling discovery when they try to reserve.
The site claims the guy to call for bookings is Steve Thomson — otherwise known as B.C.’s Minister of Forests, Lands and Natural Resource Operations. It lists Thomson’s MLA email address, and tells campers to call his Victoria and Kelowna offices.
No, the minister isn’t running a forest service campground on the side — as one concerned camper called CBC News to ask.
It turns out the former operators of the now-closed campground outside Sechelt, B.C., put Thomson’s name on their site “out of desperation” last weekend to get his attention.
It has — but not with the outcome they hoped.
“Thank you for making us aware that Minister Thomson’s name is being used inappropriately on the website,” his ministry said in a statement Tuesday morning.
“We are looking at ways to have it removed.”
Lisa Johnson – CBC News – April 04, 2017.