I would be remiss were I not wondering if others have yet to question Alberta's audacity to refuse to dialogue on their "lion's share" of profit margin while maintaining little or no responsibility for the inevitable damage Northern Gateway will do to British Columbia's environment. At this point, noting that the B.C. LIberals abdicated their jurisprudence on the right to do BC Voter's and non-voters real-time justice with a provincially conducted review of the entire Enbridge scheme by soft-selling the position of local authority to Harper's Feds, who don't give a tinker's damn about our environment, since their basic tenet is "industry at all cost", I have a couple of questions to pose.
What would Alberta say to a provincial government which allowed the feds to 'storm-troop' over their homeland ?
Wouldn't it be fair to hold Christy Clark, Stephen Harper, Allison Redford plus all their cabinets, as well as all of Enbridge's executive, responsible to physically do the frontline grunt-work with hand tools on every inevitable spill until they are unable to sit on the ground and clean the last seabird or mammal of heavy crude?
After all it is our elected leadership whom we entrust these kinds of mega-decisions to and the long-range inevitability's of this must be accepted by those who brought them into reality. I think it is fair because I am sick of governments who believe fossil-fueled expansion is the only way to enhance the human condition.
Dennis Ouellette
Prince George
