Editorial: TLC is rising from the swamp – Times Colonist

April 9, 2015

When you’re up to your posterior in alligators, goes the saying, it’s hard to remember that your initial mission was to drain the swamp. The Land Conservancy’s focus is not on draining swamps, but on saving swamps and other special places in B.C. That mission will go more smoothly and effectively now that the organization no longer has to wrestle with the metaphorical alligators that have threatened it for the past few years.

TLC won approval Thursday from the B.C. Supreme Court for a survival plan that will pull it out of its financial swamp and move it toward a more sound footing.

It’s a huge victory for an organization that has too long been distracted from its worthwhile objectives by its debt woes.

“We’ve been struggling uphill for so long,” said TLC director of operations John Shields. “To have actually gotten over the top is an elating experience.”

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