Trevallyn residents fight vandalism of their Yes signs in kind with home made stickers and paint, and speak to us about their disappointment and hopes for the vote. Video and pics Rod Thompson.
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00:00 On Friday morning I was just travelling to my daughter's house and that's when I saw the camera
00:05 analyzing. It took me by surprise, I was really quite shocked because I hadn't seen that in the
00:12 period of this particular contest anywhere else and I hadn't heard it reported or read about it,
00:18 so yes I was shocked. It really makes me question, well, the mentality of people who do such a thing.
00:25 Obviously people are going to vote either way or not vote at all or abstain, but that's just a
00:31 personal opinion of theirs and they've got every right to express it I suppose. But generally
00:36 people I speak to, I suppose one speaks with people who are often like-minded, are generally
00:43 supportive. I've seen the deprivation that they suffer and continue to suffer and nothing seems
00:53 to have worked over all those decades and decades before. I think what we've done over those decades
01:01 is in some cases absolutely deplorable. I'm looking forward to the continued conversation
01:08 about the referendum. I support the referendum, that was the yes vote,
01:14 and I hope that we're going to have a success on the 14th of October.
01:21 Yes, I visited the people on the corner there, they were quite upset that they knew when it had
01:26 happened and they just feel miserable, that sort of stuff. And we're very much convinced that we
01:34 haven't done the right thing with the First Nation people. They've just been left behind.
01:42 As long as they're quiet, then you don't have to do anything for them. And so just let them
01:48 potter on, that's not fair. Basically fairness. If we can get an easy education properly,
01:58 they should be able to do the same thing. There's so much nastiness going on.
02:01 People somehow react better to negative reporting than to positive reporting,
02:11 and that's a really negative sort of thing. They all immediately take it up.