Thoughts on BC Politics and More

While reading this , please note it w as written yesterday (February 27 th ) With a pipeline blockaded in northern British Columbia, trains stopped in their tracks across the country, the proceedings of the legislature in Victoria disrupted, and demonstrations in my riding and communities across the country, the past few weeks have been confusing and frustrating for many Canadians. Despite all the finger-pointing, the current conflict started in the British Columbia legislature when the BC NDP and BC Liberals voted together to support Bill 10, a billion-dollar taxpayer subsidy to induce a final investment decision from LNG Canada. The BC Green Caucus voted against the subsidy from the beginning and urged other MLAs to do the same. Instead, our colleagues chose to barrel ahead knowing that there were existing long-standing and unresolved matters relating to rights and title in the area. The Coastal Gaslink conflict in the Wet’suwet’en territory has now spilled out...

Coastal GasLink photo showing trees lying across the Morice River Forest Service Road, which the Hereditary Chiefs took responsibility for cutting down. It's estimated over 100 trees have been cut down on a 3 kilometre section of the public road Day after day the NDP government of John Horgan has continued to do little by way of stepping in to assist in the resolution of Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs blockading the rightful, and legal work plans of Coastal GasLink. Meantime, for some strange reason, Opposition leader Andrew Wilkinson’s BC Liberals are calling for the head of Forests Minister Doug Donaldson. Over six and a half billion dollars are involved in Coastal GasLinks pipeline project, which will travel a path from Dawson Creek to Kitimat, w here LNG Canada’s export terminal will be constructed . I would first like to take this opportunity to remind Wilkinson that Michelle Mungall is in fact the Minister for Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resour...