Federal Changes To Environmental Assessment Top Cullen Telephone Townhall
Smithers, BC – For the majority of residents in northwestern BC who took part in a telephone townhall meeting with Skeena-Bulkley Valley NDP MP and House Leader, Nathan Cullen, changes to environmental assessment was ranked as their top concern.
Close to 8500 residents participated in the second such event hosted by Cullen and Opposition environment critic Megan Leslie. Cullen said the electronic town hall technology is useful in a sprawling riding like his because it "unites and brings together thousands of people to talk about common issues of concern."
Cullen said more than 52-percent of people who answered the question surrounding environmental assessments say that’s their top worry on the national scene. "This certainly fits with the explosion of grassroots activism we’ve seen the past year, especiallly with opposition to Enbridge and the attempts of the Conservatives to stomp all over the Fisheries Act."
Three polls were also conducted during the telephone townhall and 82-percent of respondents said they were opposed to the Harper Government putting so many changes into the budget bill.
Cullen said, "I wish the government would listen in on these calls to get more in touch with what people are thinking and saying about the stuff coming out of Ottawa."
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Nathan: “I wish the overnment would listen in on these calls to get more in touch with what people are thinking…..”
Mr. Cullen, may I suggest that once Harper got his majority, he ceased to give a chit about what the people think and is proceeding to ram his exceedingly far reaching legislative changes through parliament in accordance with what his corporate masters are dictating. (We’ll draw up the plan, you guys pass the legislation and make it law)
The peoples’ thoughts don’t matter till next election, at which time they’ll be coerced into believing what the lying politicians tell them to believe.
Democracy, my butt. We’ve seen in Victoria and Ottawa that the Clark and Harper governments do not care about democractic rights and will use whatever means possible to cram their sellout agendas own our throats.
But keep paying those taxes people!! (Oh, a little more tax please, and more cowbell)
Seems to me there is a “town hall meeting” at my house always around supper time. It’s either a relative, a surprise winning prize for a trip to the Caribbean or a person of foreign extraction asking me if i wish to purchase credit card insurance. The last offer, I suspect, just wants to know my credit card numbers for nefarious reasons, I always hang up after the first sentence. Maybe someone should suggest that “Gang Green” should have “town hall (phone) meetings with her PG peons. She might get a message or two. Carry on.
Thank you for your vote. See you in four years. Five if we are unpopular. Have had that thought for twenty or more years. You’re welcome.
I would suggest most people who are against the changes don’t know what they are. The current process is full of bureaucracy and red tape.
Cullen what are the changes? Where is the risk?
I wonder how many people who voted for the Conservatives, would take part in an NDP town hall meeting. How many of them would participate in a poll. I suggest none.
So basically we have an NDP (opposition) to the Conservative legislation. Whats new? Isnt that what Opposition parties are supposed to do.??
This legislation will be passed next week, and in a few weeks it will be history.
How many people remember Pierre Trudeau’s (Liberal) Omnibus Bill C-150 in 1969. Something like 93 amendments, and 150 pages. Its all history now.
Liberal? Oh well, that was different. Right?
Liberal? My strongest memory is of Jean Cretien promising to kill the GST…..liar.
Not cancelling the EH-101 helicopters costing taxpayers mega bucks?
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