Investigate price-fixing by gas stations, reader suggests
Why is the competition bureau not doing anything about gasoline pricing? I drive by gas stations and I see the prices change from morning to night and it’s always the same. The station owners continue to adjust to each other and this has nothing to do with the costs of fuel.
It’s pure greed and something needs to be done about it, as living in the Lower Mainland is definitely getting too costly.
They won’t twin the Trans Mountain pipeline, protesters would stop construction of a new refinery, and with Alberta continuing to act as they do, I see no end to rising fuel prices. The government is supposed to help the people, so where is the help?
Sam Singh, Delta
Canadians invest in pipeline
Premier John Horgan repeatedly says the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion project will benefit a Texas company.
I then ask him, why do Canadian investors have so much money invested in Kinder Morgan? The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce has investments of $437 million, Brookfield Asset Management $429 million,
CI Financial Group $372 million, Manulife Financial Corp. $332 million, Royal Bank of Canada $113 million, Power Corporation of Canada $105 million, Quebec $81 million, and the Ontario Teachers Pension Fund, $4.8 million.
Facts and reality always prevail over propaganda. Joe Sawchuk, Duncan
We need pipeline jobs
We definitely need the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion to generate jobs and wealth for British Columbians.
Premier John Horgan said he would put money back into British Columbians’ pockets, but now that he’s elected, he changes his tune. If his policies push up gas prices, then food and everything else will increase in price. And we can’t afford to be taxed any more.
People like to work to enjoy life, but some people in B.C. work just to survive, which is sad. B.C. could be great with better leaders.
Patricia Freeman, Aldergrove
Taxes paying for jobs
It was amusing to read the praise of Premier John Horgan’s job creation success from Brian Cochrane of the Operating Engineers Union. The job creation he listed was for public-sector jobs and projects that require taxpayer support.
Before governments can build transit or hospitals, they must collect taxes from workers or run up debt that the workers’ children will pay later.
For those who think a boom in high-paying private-sector jobs will underwrite public projects and jobs, consider that the Work B.C. labour market outlook to 2027 forecasts that the highest growth in private-sector jobs will be for retail managers.
People who manage shoe stores can’t be squeezed for more taxes to support unionized public-sector workers.
Victor Godin, Richmond
Driving is a privilege
I can’t be the only person who thinks our traffic laws are woefully inadequate.
Yet again a new driver was pulled over for speeding — 70 km/h in a 30-km/h zone — and was fined and had his vehicle impounded for seven days.
Is it not obvious that some new drivers don’t have the maturity to be behind the wheel of a lethal weapon? Take away blatant offenders’ licences for six months to a year until they grow up. Driving is a privilege, not a right. Judith McQuiggan, Coquitlam