Time to flip that switch
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Updated: October 14, 2009 4:47 PM
There’s an endless list of schools, hospitals and “you-name-its” that we as citizens would like to see more money spent on. But then we turn around and whine about the taxes that pay for these things.
If we want to have our cake and eat it too (low taxes as well as more services and vital infrastructure) then we’re going to have to become more enterprising as a province and start making the most of what we’ve got.
The forest industry has served generations of people in this province well and it will again. But it’s also made us reliant on the our biggest trading partner the Americans and they’ve always needed us far less than we’ve needed them.
But now we’ve got something the Americans desperately need, something we’re uniquely able to provide: an abundance of renewable clean energy. That puts us in the driver’s seat for a change and it lets us turn the tables in our trading relationship with our American neighbours.
This time we’re the ones with our finger on the switch.
By becoming more enterprising and making the most of the renewable energy resources we’ve got in this province we can have our cake and eat it too.
We can cover the cost of the services and infrastructure projects we want without adding a single new tax dollar from our own pockets. So let’s flip that switch and make it happen.
Donald Leung
Burnaby
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