Dear Editor
On the question of the opposed Kinder Morgan pipeline project, the Trudeau government just didn’t get it.
Despite the lineup against the proposal – including three Liberal members of Parliament, the mayors of Vancouver, Burnaby and Victoria, the First Nations Tsleil-Waututh community, the provincial NDP official opposition, dozens of environmental groups and the countless people living within hailing distance of the pipeline route –Trudeau took a page from the Harper regime and declared the massive and dangerous Kinder Morgan project to be in the (somewhat nebulous) “national interest.”
That not only tells us that regional and local interests are not to be given serious consideration, but it belies the 2015 Liberal Party pre-election policy statement “while governments grant permits only communities can grant permission.”
The sad thing is that we fell for it.
Bill Brassington Sr., Burnaby
