Refreshing stance a contrast to Trudeau

Re: “May arrested at pipeline protest,” March 24.

How refreshing to have a politician who really shows commitment to a cause. It’s such a change from Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s promises of putting people before profits, and promises concerning the rights of First Nations peoples.

After listening to a Salish Sea naturalist talk of our precious waters, I was prompted to write this the prime minister:

It is with great sorrow that I foresee the consequences of your backtracking over putting people before profits when you approved the pipeline to Burnaby.

You could not have taken into account your promises to the coastal and Indigenous people of B.C., nor the proven physical impossibility of cleaning up more than 20 per cent of a spill that will eventually happen.

The deafness and loss of life for already endangered orcas and dolphins who depend on sound to hunt, and who will be affected by tanker engines the size of houses, day and night, the slowly dying cormorants and sea birds with blinded eyes and feathers clogged with oil, the dead crabs, giant pacific octopus and mussel beds, the skin sores and poisoning of sea lions, the end of salmon and sardine runs — how can you even risk this by approving the pipeline?

Even ignoring tourism and occupations, we are supposed to be stopping global warming, not making it worse.

I grieve for all of this planet’s children.

Paula Foot Duncan