The Land Title and Survey Authority has sent a letter to Kamloops Council on the issue of removing land title records but at least one Councillor does not like what he is reading.

Councillor Mike O’Reilly says the letter is a far cry from what the city, the regional district, and area First Nations have demanded in actual consultations.

“In that letter from the CEO she suggests says she is open to having a meeting with us. There is no mention of the moratorium. The letter was sent during the debate on Council where we really didn’t have a chance to read it. It doesn’t really change anything. We want to make sure that these documents are held in Kamloops until there has been First Nations consultation and meetings with Kamloops elected officials.”

O’Reilly says the number of private sector job losses in Kamloops, should the land title records be shipped to Victoria, continues to grow.

“It keeps getting deeper as to who this will effect. I have another letter sent from a group of three extra businesses in town saying they use those land titles, specifically the original documents, that they use them almost every day if not every other day. This is a whole separate group of business from the ones that originally approached me. So this is effecting more jobs than what we even think.”

O’Reilly has said in the past a dozen or more private sector jobs reliant on those land title records were on the line.

He is hopeful the decision can be still reversed.