The current political situation in B.C. is ludicrous.
Christy Cark and the outgoing Liberals were soundly thumped in the mainstream media for unilaterally changing contract provisions to a B.C. teachers contract, made by a previous NDP government. It is curious that no mainstream media is making a similar comparison to the current John Horgan-NDP and Andrew Weaver-Green preliminary discussions about cancelling contracts with independent contractors at the Site C dam and the federal government, which has approved not only site C but also a controversial pipeline by Kinder Morgan.
As a concerned taxpayer, I am looking at how the B.C. Liberal government lost a Supreme Court challenge to their controversial unilateral changes to the BCTF. The court costs and the cost of reinstating the old contract are huge.
If and when Mr. Horgan and Mr. Weaver start cancelling contracts with independent contractors and agreements with the federal government, I am very concerned. What about the long-term fallout of even the preliminary idea that British Columbia, through its Crown corporation of BC Hydro, could be forced to cancel contracts. To ignore the federal approvals of two major resource projects shows disrespect to not only Ms. Clark's B.C. Liberals Party but also to Mr. Trudeau's federal Liberals. The possible cancellation of either one of these projects has long term implications to the cooperation of future B.C. governments and federal governments.
Mr. Horgan and Mr. Weaver may not like Site C or Kinder Morgan pipelines but the economy of the Lower Mainland and Victoria both run on oil, electricity and resource revenue. Until a sustainable replacement for carbon fuels, dams and resource revenues is found, Mr. Horgan and Mr. Weaver both need to show a little more respect to the existing resource economy of B.C.
Wayne Martineau
Fraser Lake
