RE: Who to vote for
I have had a letter from Adrian Dix, and a colorful flyer from NDP candidate Bobby Deepak. In both these information sheets were are told that the NDP will promote and invest in value added activity for our resource industry. Unfortunately, all too often such value added industries have failed as competition from such industries in other countries made local value added factories unprofitable. It seems there is a lack of people here that will work for one, or two dollars an hour.
We have an abundance of aspen timber, that is perfect for making chop sticks, so twice a chop stick factory was started, in Prince George with millions of Government money poured into it, and each time it ended in business failure with taxpayers being out of pocket. Other value-added enterprises in Prince George have gone the same way.
We now have a proposal by industrialist David Black to build a refinery at Kitimat to refine the oil shipped by the proposed gateway pipeline, a project that would create thousands of secure high-wage value added jobs. So what does Adrian Dix say? He has spoken out against the approval of the Kinder Morgan application for increased oil shipment through Vancouver, and states that the approval process of the proposed Gateway Project is not good enough, and a made in B.C. approval process must be developed, and carried out before t his project will be allowed to go ahead.
So while the NDP talks about supporting value added, will they instead destroy the only realistic value added project now on the horizon, by causing years of delay by studying it?
Other players are out there that may come in to the market now open in Asia.
Svend Serup
Prince George
