I find it increasingly difficult watching you work tirelessly to try to right the ship only to be ridiculed, put down and demonized by some who have no idea what their price for freedom is, or was until it is too late to correct it.

As you no doubt can identify with is some fashion, personally, I had two uncles fight for our freedom to have Democratic Government. They did not die in the wars, but slow deaths from exposure; one from mustard gas during World war I and the other from lead poisoning from shrapnel and a lodged bullet that could not be removed because of its location.

I find it increasingly difficult watching you work tirelessly to try to right the ship only to be ridiculed, put down and demonized by some who have no idea what their price for freedom is, or was until it is too late to correct it.

Having said this, Rafe, if and when you need a driver for a bulldozer or whatever else is required, just let me know.

A referendum might be the best way to go if it were really going to be up to the citizens of B.C. and for that matter others in Canada because it is the oil of Canada which is going overseas and won’t be available for future generations living in Canada.

What I believe to be the sad end result is, we will have the hearings, people will protest, some will go to jail, etc. but in the end Harper & his majority will simply say the pipelines and tankers will go ahead and that will be the end of it. Legal deals will be signed prior to him being voted out of office but it will be a done deal.

Harper isn’t a person who changes his mind. With a declining crime rate, he pushed through his crime bill. Ontario alone will need to put out almost a billion to deal with it.

Harper wanted the gun registry gone even while police associations wanted it to remain as did women’s groups, gun control groups, and Quebec. What did we get, gun registry gone.

Harper wanted to reduce the amount of money given to provinces for health care. The Premiers didn’t agree but we know what is happening, the money will be reduced regardless of the needs or the premiers opinions. Harper may have said he saw a public option for health care but they didn’t ask him the follow up question which would have been: do you see a place for private health care in Canada.

Harper has an agenda, he has a majority, and he will do as he wants and there is nothing people can do about it, short of a revolt. Some years ago he said we wouldn’t recognize Canada after he took power and we won’t. Our land and coasts will be covered in bitamen oil; we will be spending billions on jails while people start dying from a lack of decent health care. Those unregistered guns, well I do expect to see a few more shot gun deaths along the way.

Will Harper care, no. He will have achieved his goal. He doesn’t care about First Nations people and he doesn’t care about the future of Canada. If part of his belief system is “end of days” none of it matters; we’re all going to heaven. Just going to be a bitch for us atheists.

http://www.truth-out.org/transcanada-no-more-6000-pipeline-workers-job-any-given-day/1327247729

if it ever is would like to see you interview David Short re same sex marriage and the Anglican church….keep searching regardless!

If there were to be a leak during the winter I really don’t know how they would see it or get there to fix it. There is no money in the world which will compensate us for the tanker spills.

I do not understand Harper’s comments as to if Keystone isn’t approved by the Americans we will sell to China. The man must be nuts. Why not keep it in Canada. Use it for the future. Refine it in Canada. To export oil for refining in other countries, to only have to buy it back is ridiculous not to mention expensive. Our economy would be way futher ahead to keep it in the ground and use it only for Canadian purposes.

Some people keep refering to “selling” the oil to China or the USA. We don’t sell it. We don’t own it. It is owned by foreign companies. Embridge is largely owned these days by foreign companies. Canada only gets to charge royalties and Alberta has some of the lowest in the world. Other countries may “own” their oil because they have nationalized their oil but not Canada. The royalties charged by Canada for our national resources are very small especially compared to the profits other countries and corporations make off of it. i.e. China uses our natural resources to make products we buy and they get the jobs and profits. We should use our national resources for our own country’s benefit.

B.C. should not be ripping up our forests to export logs. We should enforce enviornmental standards, which Campbell managed to remove, for companies. We should mill the products in B.C. and then build the products here. Why ship raw logs to other countries so they manufacture furniture we have to buy.

At the rate things are going it is a race to the bottom with only the corporations making the money. Clark is too stupid to see the future and I suspect Harper doesn’t care.

Harper is a Reformer, from his very shady early political days. Deb Grey said, Harper is still a Reformer. Canadians went to war, so we wouldn’t have a dictatorship in our country. Harper has embarrassed Canadians on many occasions. His bullying other country’s to accepting the dirty tar oil, in Durban, angered other country’s that were present. Pulling Canada out of the Kyoto Accord, was frowned on as well. They are fed up with Harper’s bullying and his hissy fits when he doesn’t get his own way. Harper even lost Canada’s seat in the U.N. Harper can go to hell too.
Harper and Campbell destroyed BC financially. We want to at least keep our marine life and our wildlife saved from these stupid ventures and, to save the beauty of BC. The BC people have had enough stolen from them. Harper, Alberta, Obama, China and the Campbell/Clark BC Liberals, can all bugger off.