‘Social License’? So a bunch of art students and poets are going to formulate industrial growth in my province? The big strength behinf Cullen and his culls are groups like bgeu, bctf and heu who create no investment, create no jobs and live off the taxes paid by workers of tax paying corporations.
If you want to learn about sustainability, ask the companies that are actually willing to spend the bucks for serious projects, not people living off the trough.

You have a funny way of describing ‘city residents’ mr birdman. Art students and poets…really.

Yet taxpaying workers from taxpaying corporations as well as taxpaying workers from tax and royalty supported endeavours must have voted for him or he wouldn’t have been elected, now would he?

Besides which, the objective of corporations when spending the bucks is to make another buck in profits. Nothing wrong there, but don’t tell me they are experts in sustainability. Look at farmed salmon, fisheries, forestry, oil sands and a host of other areas of corporate investment to see their true viewpoint.

What is it that is supposed to be sustainable?

Look at the number of businesses which go out of businesses each year. Most of them were unable to sustain themselves.
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“If you want to learn about sustainability, ask the companies that are actually willing to spend the bucks for serious projects”

Such as? To compete with others and put them out of business ….. it is called self preservation. THAT is not sustainability.

how does having a bunch of companies conducting business in BC without paying taxes help the economy. I fail to see a link between the value of a project and the amount of taxable dollars being spent.

Gus not to sure if you went. Based on your comments but if anyone else participated in the events tonight. Would they care to highlight some of the things that were talked about. Me and my silly self misread the post and thought the public forum was Tuesday… Damn I was really looking forward to my first. I’m on the fence about the NDP/Liberal vote. I only have my predecessors to base my opinion on and was hoping that tonight would have given me some valuable insight as to what the NDP had on the table. Thanks

We need an export tax on energy, and not a regressive carbon tax on heating our homes and fuel for our cars to drive the vast north to where we work.

We have stupid policy right now with a regressive carbon tax that targets the middle class so corporations can have tax cuts and off shore the profits. Its a tax on productivity in the whole economy and a hindrance on as yet profitable start up small businesses.

We need a sufficient export tax on energy such as oil and gas and hydro so as to drive down the domestic cost. If the export tax is based on the domestic market they will have to lower the domestic price in order to profit from volume exports at world market prices. We need to support our economy first and foremost.

Furthermore I would say the export tax should be payable to the regions that generate it in the form of a per capita dividend to regional districts for infrastructure needs and social health costs. This would enable communities to build their own sustainable futures and solve their own problems locally.

Sustainability requires balance between profit and restraint. Other social concerns have nothing to do with how sustainable a resource or revenue stream is. Forestry has been brought up and is a good example. It is the job of private enterprise to look for profit and to take risks to get it. It is the job of government to ensure that the public reaps the greatest benefit therefrom (at least it is where public resources are concerned). The actual definition of this greatest benefit is where public consultation comes in. While the public is not responsible for the corporate profit they must still allow such profit to be made if they are to benefit.
Some people seem unwilling to allow for public input into projects, others seem to think that saying no to every project regardless of merit ( I suppose they see none, even though they benefit hugely from projects past and present) constitutes helpful input. These folks need to step back and take a breath.