Dragging feet on Kinder Morgan
Dear editor: Once again the Liberals drag their feet on Kinder Morgan and the 10,000-plus jobs across Canada that would be created — no direct action to push the pipeline through. Contrast that with the heavily-subsidized Bombardier C Series Jets that create 1,300 jobs in Canada plus thousands more in the U.K. and U.S. where the federal government immediately went to the international trade dispute courts and cancelled the fighter jet purchases from Boeing to defend Central Canadian jobs and elite business owners.
Liberal politics, not Canadian national interests and jobs, killed the Northern Gateway pipeline which was thoroughly vetted and had the support of First Nations, who partnered with the oil industry and shared in profits.
No, by simply embargoing tankers in Northern Pacific waters, rather than enforcing the negotiated environmental protection put in place, the Trudeau Liberals killed that opportunity.
Energy East reversing an existing pipeline flow and extending it through to New Brunswick was feasible and would have created another 6,000 to 7,000 jobs across Canada was not supported either. Instead, in Atlantic Canada and Quebec we allow foreign oil tankers from one-time ISIS territory: Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Venezuela, and others to annually bring in over a billion barrels of oil and we lose jobs, taxes and kill an entire economy based on propaganda and foreign-funded, anti-Canadian protest groups.
B.C. continues to support American oil imports as the West Coast American refineries annually tanker into Vancouver/Victoria harbours millions of barrels of processed avgas, diesel, and auto gas. Where are the environmental assessments and protests against those risks, Mr. Trudeau?
Now we have a trade war. John Horgan kills jobs in all of Canada and now Rachel Notley retaliates and kills jobs in B.C. with wine, craft beer, electricity, Northern BC gas transmission embargoes for Alberta to their markets, etc.
We lived through this with Pierre, the father, and now Justin, the son, but that is the Liberal way, kill the western aspirations, protect Central Canada, while subsidizing the Maritime economies.
So while thousands of shovel-ready Canadian jobs are lost, Trudeau goes to California to plead for possible jobs in Ontario from the richest companies in the world, led by the elitists of the U.S. political system.
It is disgusting! Doug Waines West Kelowna