These people have a long hard battle ahead, because there is no way the Libtards are going risk having their incompetence exposed through a Public Inquiry.

No these Libtards need a process they can control, and that process is a Coroner’s Inquest.

There is a reason no charges were layed and we aren’t being told the truth about it. The citizens of this province demand a public inquiry!!!

Pray tell what Liberals have to do with this? Worksafe did an investigation which all can read as to the cause of the horror stories. I believe for charges to be laid don’t you need some criminal intent? There are enough lives screwed up already from this, yet the outcome from an inquest might end up with an hourly guy charged over poor maintenance practices?

The province mandates the mills cut dead and dry pine.

The mills do their best to do just that, and maintain employment, all through one of the worst lumber market periods since the Great Depression of the early thirties.

Does the province insist that the mills’ bankers keep them afloat when they’re bleeding red ink?

Does the province insist that those same bankers provide the mills with unlimited funds, at any time, let alone in a market period where most of the survivors have just been hanging on and managing to barely keep their present loan payments current, so they can put in new and expensive dust controls?

Facilities which would undoubtedly need to be installed when the mill wasn’t operating? Resulting in no cash flow for the mill, and a lay-off for the production workers ~ people who are all so flush with funds they can miss numerous pay checks and still keep all their own payments current? With perhaps a little help from EI, maybe?

Does the province make allowances for additional clean-up costs where the above is not practical, so that the mill can be kept within the dust control limits WorkSafeBC now is mandating? Which seem to change like the phases of the moon? If they indeed can be, cutting that kind of wood?

What if the mill owners just all said what you’re now demanding of us is functionally and financially impossible?

So here you are provincial government, here’s our mill, YOU take it over and run it and make all the payments, and YOU do all the same things you’re insisting we now do, and keep everyone employed, and all your lumber customers, (the ones that are still buying from you, the ones you’ve managed, somehow, to retain, and know you’ll have a hard time getting back if you ever do lose them), completely happy?

Would that satisfy the lynch mob that’s ready to string up the mill owners and managers and WorkSafeBC and anyone else who’s supposed to be to blame? Once they’ve strung them all up, that is?

Maybe you should have a Public Inquiry. But if you do, you’d better be prepared to hear some ‘inconvenient truths’ most of those concerned are not going to want to hear, and certainly will never stir themselves to rectify.