Dear Editor:
Re: Who's going to pay for our hospitals?, Burnaby NOW, Oct. 22 edition
If the "business people" referred to by Mr. Harris are truly concerned about how we're going to pay for hospitals they, like our mayor and council, would be advocating for secondary resource jobs in Canada instead of supporting the "extract and export Canada's resources expediently" agenda of our current federal government.
Canadian jobs mean Canadian income taxes, which pay for Canadian hospitals. Just ask employees at the Burnaby Chevron refinery who, if the pipeline goes through, may be out of work if Kinder Morgan starts piping bitumen instead of semi-refined oil to our coast.
I hope that when the Burnaby Board of Trade does the math that they'll see Kinder Morgan's plans to triple pipeline capacity will steal jobs from Canadians, further undermining our ability to pay for universal healthcare and vital infrastructure.
Peter Cech, Burnaby
