To the Editor,
Re: Province promotes LNG, Jan. 13.
By ‘province,’ that means these liquefied natural gas seminars were paid for by B.C. taxpayers. Our Liberal government was first to the post and therefore has the electoral right to call such shots. It’s called politics.
But it’s also possible to question government policies through letters to the editor. That’s called democracy.
What a public relations coup it could have been for both LNG and the Liberal party if they had impressed all and sundry by daring to set up a booth for those who opposed fracking.
As it was, Paul Manly, for example, our local federal Green Party candidate, was given an escort inside the conference centre, preventing him from either discussing or handing out any information whatsoever regarding fracking.
Only one teacher picked up leaflets from those outside the conference centre who opposed fracking. On her way back to her bus one of the boys in her class asked for the handout she’d been given. Just maybe that student learned something about there being two sides to any question.
Edwin TurnerNanaimo