Editor:
Lifetime activist Jane Fonda said it well when she recently stated, “People should not be fooled by good-looking Liberals no matter how well spoken they are.”
During the last federal election, progressive voters across the nation rejected Stephen Harper’s vision and his policies and voted instead for the Liberal party and Justin Trudeau, believing they would get something different, something better. People voted in good faith for the high-minded promises made by Trudeau, the “shining hope” at the recent Paris Climate talks. He spoke eloquently about the need to protect the environment and reduce our carbon emissions for present and for future generations. However, let’s look at what has happened since.
• Approval of the massive $36-billion Petronas LNG pipeline to the west coast of B.C.
• In our own Howe Sound, the approval of Woodfibre LNG.
• The massive increase in tanker traffic exporting raw bitumen in our southern coastal waters through the expansion of the Kinder Morgan pipeline development.
• Keystone XL pipeline to the U.S. – the Liberals can’t wait to get that line approved.
Experts agree it is impossible to keep their Paris commitments while approving these massive developments. What a betrayal.
But the worst betrayal of all is the broken promise of electoral reform. Justin Trudeau, his candidates and his MPs are on record promising thousands of times that this would be the last election using first-past-the-post voting. As NDP MP Nathan Cullen put it, “This is the worst cynical variety of politician, saying whatever it takes to get elected.”
Millions of Canadians believed that their promises would be kept.
Larry Koopman, Gibsons
