Finally the election is getting down to the the central issue: the high jacking of our democracy by big business with 177 companies contributing $55 million to BC Liberal coffers and receiving $15 billion in government contracts.
One egregious example occurred in the Houston Forest District where two companies, West Fraser and Canfor, logged nearly 1 million cubic meters of green timber. This timber was meant for harvest after the “bugwood” epidemic was over. This is enough timber for over 100,000 logging trucks.
Eighteen months later, sawmills were closed in Quesnel and Houston. The sawmill closure in Houston so devastated the community that the only grocery store in the town of 3,500 closed. Government was mute on this egregious action.
The Liberal plan for these communities is to replant with federal money and wait 100 years. According to Post Media, Canfor contributed $7.3 million while Western Forest Products enriched Liberal coffers by $8.8 M.
BC doesn’t need Donald Trump to devastate forest communities, the Christy Clark Liberals are managing all by themselves.
Peter Nalleweg
Victoria