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Updated: September 03, 2009 2:05 PM
Editor:
Re: B.C. Liberal government's throne speech. Sure the B.C. Liberals lied to us before the election about the looming deficit. Sure they lied about plans for the HST. Sure there will be cuts to government grants, more unemployment, a public-sector wage freeze, fewer surgeries, less money for student bursaries and operational cuts to the many boards and authorities that deliver services to B.C residents.
But this government tells us to look beyond. The Olympics and planned northern corridors for energy and transportation will constitute our economic launching pad. The world will come and experience "the majesty of the Peace, the grandeur of the Kootenays, the rugged beauty of the Northwest, the intimacy of our Islands, the vast sweep of the Cariboo Chilcotin, the richness of the Thompson Okanagan".
But they will hear this important message - that B.C. welcomes investment, and that the rivers, mountains and lakes of B.C. are open for profitable exploitation and destruction.
The future of British Columbia is indeed green, as green as the colour of money.
Larry Kazdan, Vancouver
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