The following letter was sent to MP Pam Goldsmith-Jones and copied to Coast Reporter.
Hi Pam:
I was the first speaker at your Gibsons Town Hall meeting about Woodfibre LNG. I also contacted you on Facebook in the early poll days to let you know I had literally plugged my nose as I dropped the ballot for the Liberals in the ballot box during the last federal election, and that I hoped that the promises being made by your party would be put into action.
From the early 1980s until 2006, I was active in grassroots, provincial, national and international arenas promoting environmental protection. My focus has always been on collaboration, communication, and encouraging alternatives rather than banning existing technologies.
I voted Liberal last election, rather than Green, for two reasons only: to stop Harper, and because I hoped the Liberal rhetoric of protecting the environment, on not allowing projects to go forward without community permission, would see action.
I have never joined a federal political party, preferring to keep my independence and therefore ability to comment on policy wherever it originated.
Pam, after the comments by Prime Minister Trudeau that alternative energy of the future would be financed by pipelines, and finally, the decision by Catherine McKenna to allow Woodfibre LNG to go forward, I joined the Green Party of Canada today. And you can bet that I will do everything in my small world to make sure enough of us who had to vote Liberal last time become Green Party members in the next few months so we can grow the Greens and their power, allowing us to vote with confidence next time around.
Fool me once, shame on me.
Carole Rubin, Garden Bay
