Team Work Key to B.C. Success
Thursday, January 10, 2013 @ 2:07 PM
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Prince George. B.C.- Gold medal Olympian Nancy Greene Raine, (now a Senator) likens business development to achieving the highest levels in sport. There needs to be a plan, preparation and a good knowledge of the competition. “We as Canadians have to be very innovative and very lean and mean and get serious about it. It is a very competitive world out there and there are resources in many, many countries and we have the technical know-how, the resources and the skilled people, so we should be able to compete.
Greene Raine delivered the luncheon address at the BC Natural Resources Forum in Prince George this afternoon. A retrospective address, she touched on her accomplishments and the 2010 Olympics, she says following those games, there was a real feeling in B.C. that no matter what the challenge “We can go out and compete against the world and do it.”
In a private interview with 250News, she touched on the politics of B.C. saying “There are clouds on the horizon, I don’t think it would be healthy for us at this point to switch to a socialist government because the world economy doesn’t work that way. We have to do things in a very logical straight forward way, so those are things you have to factor in as well.”
She says in order for B.C. to move forward “We have to get together and work as a team.”
Comments
I guess if you are a world class skiier we should believe the spin she is telling. NOT. On one hand we are told we have the resources and the skilled people to do the job, on the other hand we have politicians falling all over themselves to recruit labour from other countries because of a so called shortage of skilled people here. Which is it, Nancy? I am disappointed to see she is a senator, as there is no more useless body of politicos who bilk millions out of taxpayers each year to do nothing. When will we wake up and be able to abolish the system that breeds those leeches.
Hey …
Look at the whole picture … not only was she a world class skier (from a town smaller than PG) but she is a world class business person … she was pivotal in the development of Whistler (sure .. she made lots of $$$ … because her and her partner(s) Knew what theu were doing) … she was also the key into developing the Nancy Greene ski league which had provided the under 13 ski community with lots of enjoyment, good values and team work … maybe we don’t need a Senate but as long as we have one, I wil support her as my choice for a senator … hard working, from a working town, and caring about community … PS I was also raised to respect our icons
anotherside, she was also instrumental in developing Sun Peaks near Kamloops.
Met her twice so far in my lifetime; once as a child when she came to town for a race and once as a very drunk adult in a pub at Sun Peaks.
“I donât think it would be healthy for us at this point to switch to a socialist government because the world economy doesnât work that way”
So which is it:
1) She doesn’t understand what a socialist government actually is, OR
2) She is throwing out the “S” word to intentionally try and scare people into thinking that left wing parties in Canada are something that they aren’t?
Used to drive through Nancy Greene Provincial Park a lot in the 80s and did make it to Red Mountain to ski a few times.
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