“It was also learned there has been no study by either Federal Fisheries, or Environment Canada on how a bitumen spill would impact freshwater.”

One would think that studies on the impact of bitumen had been conducted as soon as it became apparent that the Harper government or any other Canadian government would seriously consider giving such a bitumen pipeline across mountainous and land slide prone real estate the green light.

Actually as far as common sense goes one could venture to say (without a costly study): The impact would be very bad and long-lasting.

“…would be bad and very long lasting”. I can’t believe you said that. I need twenty six different people holding meetings for two years, spending two million taxpayer dollars a year,the twenty six committee members getting free lodging as they travel everywhere, get paid a per diem for incidentals, and when they finish this “report” we can wait six months for their announcement and then I will believe them when they say the same thing. That’s how it works in this country. Doncha know?

Cullen is so smart. To bad we don’t have an MP like him. Instead we got a couple of puppets.

CBC reported recently that Harper closed down the experimental lakes program that in all likelihood would have been the location for these needed tests. Even took the unusual step of locking the gates to the facility from third parties with independent funding for their on going experiments.

By blocking access to science and thus an informed public the Harper government feels it can do what ever its corporate donors pay for.

The losers are the Canadian electorate and our democracy itself when we are asked to vote on these matters without any knowledge of fact over fiction at election time.

Pro Cannabis… “Cullen is so smart”?????

Methinks you must be smoking your Blog name.

Cullen is the quintessential “chicken little” who sees doom in everything he looks at……

Cullen is an alarmist who has been using fear-mongering throughout his career life. He wants to keep the northwest part of our province in a recession while the rest of the country moves forward creating jobs and rebuilding the economy. Cullen will spin to you whatever he thinks will get him a vote, and if it means BS’ing the masses to get his point across..then he hesitates not.

I would actually vote ndp if Cullen was the candidate. I think the man has his hart in with the people and the country and I have nothing but respect for the man.