Editor:
The recent View from the Ledge column by Keith Baldrey (“Logging protests illuminate the change in B.C.’s NDP”) misses the point. He constructs a view that the NDP have a stronger position on Fairy Creek than they did in Clayoquot Sound. The reality is that the current NDP approach to Fairy Creek is dishonest and aloof, which has led to one of the largest events of civil disobedience in Canadian history. Having Teal Jones cut hundreds of millions of dollars of ancient forest on Crown land under provincial TFL 46 and giving the Pacheedaht band $250,000 in kickbacks with a muzzle clause is not the road to UNDRIP. As well, there are major costs of paying the RCMP just to have them dishonoured in a situation where political leadership was needed. Let’s not oversimplify the Fairy Creek action and underestimate the political cost for the NDP.
Jim Tivy, Roberts Creek
