Editor:
John Weston chooses an unfortunate comparison when he links the Northern Gateway project to the building of the Canadian Pacific Railway enabling Confederation in 1867 (“Pipeline project faces hurdles,” Coast Reporter, July 4).
We all know that the railway was built by the exploitation of “temporary foreign workers.” They were Chinese “coolies” and many of them died in the process.
Today’s Harper government would like to ride roughshod over the rights and territories of First Nations, but as of June 26, the Supreme Court won’t let them. Perhaps we have made some progress in our thinking in the last 147 years, but you wouldn’t know it listening to John Weston.
Mary Beth Knechtel, Halfmoon Bay
