Pipeline propaganda

Now John Horgan is trying to compare British Columbia to Quebec. He is consulting that province to learn how to save his job by violating Canadian law. Quebec has never signed on to the Constitution of Canada; whereas British Columbia did and so we are bound by the Constitution Act of Canada (and Quebec is not).

The repatriation in 1982 became known as the ‘Night of the Long Knives’ in Quebec. The Meech lake and Charlottetown Accords both failed and fueled the growth of the Bloc Quebecois in Parliament; the only province with a federal party of its own. This propaganda put forth by John Horgan is smoke and mirrors to attempt blocking the progress of Canada to appease the ‘Greenpeace’ party and save his job.

Andrew Weaver was on ‘The West Block’ on Sunday morning TV with rhetoric about devastating spills that will ruin British Columbia (the sky is falling). He has talked about fuel spills from ships that have absolutely nothing to do with the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion and port shipping from it. Let him name one failure of a double-hulled tanker. He won’t be able to, so he espouses propaganda about fuel spills from ships that will be better handled in future with the improved spill response facilities promised by our country, as one of the five requirements by the BC government that already approved the pipeline after lengthy reviews and negotiations.

More Andrew Weaver propaganda claimed on TV that the new oil would likely go to California. How can he say that when there are U.S. ships going down our coast now taking Alaskan crude to California? It has always been said that the target market for our Canadian bitumen is Asia and not to the same customer that is ripping us off now. Right now we are suffering pollution from coal burning in China, that switching to oil would help to alleviate. Do we want to take positive action to help reduce pollution or quiver in fear that the sky is falling; which is propaganda.

More Andrew Weaver propaganda claimed on TV that tripling the capacity of shipping oil/bitumen here would increase tanker traffic 28 fold. He has not substantiated this and it makes no sense. We hear a claim on TV that 75% of constituents are against the pipeline, but then learn that it is from the MP for Burnaby. This is more propaganda from a representative of people trying to exercise NIMBY (not in my back yard). The port is there so what can they expect!?

Perhaps the government should expropriate their homes and build refineries to replace the ones that were
closed. One wonders how many people who moved to Burnaby did not realize that there was a port there.
Also, the provincial chief of the indigenous people is going against the people he represents along the pipeline who support it, by also putting out propaganda. He talks only about the construction jobs that are short term and ignores all of the permanent operational and maintenance jobs at all the pumping stations on the pipeline and increased port facilities; and all of the spinoff jobs pertaining to providing operational and maintenance materials and serving an increased number of working families in BC. Also see my previous letters; ‘Understand pipeline safety’ and ‘Cause and effect’.

Jerrilynn DeCock