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A year into Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party mandate, Canadians who cheered the departure of Stephen Harper’s Conservatives thinking the country had turned a corner on aggressive foreign policy abroad, regressive social policies at home, and an obstructionist environmental philosophy drawn straight from the American Bible belt, have little to be happy about on any of those fronts.
War and rumour of it is the Canadian Forces mantra, while little has been done to address the skyrocketing real estate costs fueling homelessness and economic diaspora in all the country’s major cities.
But on the environment, and especially where First Nations concerns dove-tail with ecologically threatening mega-projects, like the proposed Site-C dam, the Liberal failure to perform is doubly disappointing.
Ken Boon is a Peace Valley farmer standing to lose his livelihood should Site C be built. He’s also the president of the Peace Valley Landowners Association, and one of six protesters slapped with a BC Hydro lawsuit for, “intentional interference with economic relations by unlawful means.”
Ken Boon in the first half.
And; last week the Nathan E Stewart foundered on rocks in Seaforth Channel and sank. The pusher-tug, well known to locals of British Columbia’s mid-coast for its bi-weekly transits through the province’s Inside Passage, was headed south with its 10,000 ton oil tanker barge when it ran aground, and though the tanker was “empty” the tug itself began disgorging its 200,000 litres of diesel into the waters of the Great Bear Rainforest.
Ingmar Lee is a long-time ecology defender and resident of the mid-coast. He is the author of the Facebook action site, 10,000 Ton Tanker, from where he has campaigned to have the Nathan E Stewart refused passage.
Ingmar Lee and a perfectly predictable disaster in the second half.
And; Victoria Street Newz publisher emeritus and CFUV Radio broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will join us at the bottom of the hour to bring us newz of some of the good things going on on our city’s streets, and beyond, planned for the coming week. But first, Ken Boon and Justin Trudeau’s Site-C dam nation.
