To the Editor,
It is important to know that in this growing overpopulated, industrial-driven globe, there are many powerful foreign entities that view our vast and resource filled country with envious, unsympathetic eyes.
They will stop at nothing short of war to access what they want.
Their will is to take ownership of our natural resources, industry, real-estate, and national agenda through passive aggressive means. Their only obstacle is any will of us to remain a democratic, distinct, and determined nation.
All levels of government are strongly dependent for their salaries and early retirement on the tax dollars that come from the rapid exploitation of the natural world and are too easily tempted to give in to short term solutions such as complying with the business demands of the global theatre.
This proposed Enbridge oil pipe line backed by China to go from Alberta through B.C. will fill approximately 200 oil tankers a year that will pass through the ocean inlet of the pristine Great Bear Rainforest.
When were the people of B.C. asked permission for this? Is the illusion of democracy serving only to blind us that we live under an oligarchy?
Being nationalistic by building an oil refinery in Alberta would make much more sense, because every nation must begin to become more economically self-sufficient rather than be the servants of multi-national corporations.
Lobbying in itself is not true democracy, but it is the only power that environmentalists have against governments bent to sell out our country and the next generations for the short term tax revenue that comes from the exploitation of the Earth.
Canada is one of the few nations on Earth to be still blessed with what is left of the natural world and we have a moral duty to protect it before it is too late.
Holden Southward
Nanaimo