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General · 4th April 2009
mike cannon
Campbell is giving away OUR province. He's giving away our rivers and our right to reasonable hydro rates. Within ten years or less we'll be paying what they pay in California, in fact we'll be competing with the Americans for our own power. This is despite the fact that the infrastructure was already in place and paid for so that we could to continue to enjoy one of the lowest hydro rates in North America, if not the lowest. For what? To pay off those who are providing the funds for his re-election and to satisfy his personal lust for total privatization of British Columbia and its economy.

He has allowed the big logging corporations to ignore their responsibilities under the Tree Farm License Regs, and to take the Crown (our) Land provided to them in order to sustain a logging industry in perpetuity and use it instead for lucrative real estate development. Another gift to his financial backers. I don't know how 50% of our
voting populace managed to re-elect this whacko last time but, if they repeat the mistake, they've given away what's left of this once-great province to greedy investors, most of whom are from out of Province. Once it's gone it's gone for good.
Thanks to Brian Mulrony, the NAFTA treaty will ensure that.