Clean Up our Own Backyard!
By Ben Meisner
Friday, June 03, 2005 05:02 AM
There may be an argument made that we can afford to send three councilors and the Mayor to a meeting in say Vancouver to discuss issues that affect this side of the country, but a trip to Newfoundland? That just happens to be a little shy of 10,000 kilometers away.
Mayor Kinsley, Councilors Don Basserman, Murry Krause, and Cliff Dezell are all there on our tab. We were told when the Mayor and the City Manager traveled to Ottawa last fall, (surprisingly during Grey Cup week and more surprising that they attended the function) that they had made great strides in Ottawa. We have two MP’S from this region they failed to even talk to one of them (MP D ick Harris) during that trip. Just what are we about to learn in St. John's, that the whales are migrating, that the Rock has excellent sea food, or the migration of shore birds is under way?
Given the lack of a forest on the island and the fact we are being wiped clean in this city by beetles, the four of them could have spent our money trying to seek some answers to what obviously will be a serious problem.
Our history at these types of events has not gone unnoticed. One Prince George contingent was threatened with being evicted from a hotel in Whistler during a similar type of meet, and each year in the past, the taxpayers have footed the bill for a hospitality room and for whom?
I got my tax notice the other day from Cache Creek, taxes there, (as the mayor stated) are going down. That’s right ,down. But more over, has anyone been to Grande Prairie lately to see what Prince George might do to try and recover some of lost revenue that will come as a result of CN re opening the Peace country link between BC and Alberta? Now if you think the lumber will flow from say Ft. Nelson to Prince George and then on to Chicago, take two aspirin, and go to bed early. The majority of the traffic from Northern BC will flow through Alberta. And who was it again that supported that sale?
In addition , maybe the four can stop in Victoria, or heaven forbid, right here in Prince George and try to arrange a meeting with the forest leaders and owners to see what we can do to prevent the economy going into the toilet when our forests have been wiped clean by beetles . There are already comments coming from the forest industry leaders that we will hit the wall within the next seven to ten years in the forest industry and anyone who clings to the notion that we are not forest dependent in this region should take a trip….. A trip say to Newfoundland, where they don’t have a beetle problem and the sea food is great.
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Posted by: Chadermando on June 3 2005 2:14 PM
Once landed we could shuttle them into town so Collin and Murray could show them how to really develop a downtown, ie pawn shops,homeless shelters and soup kitchens,then he could drive them all up to the casino(you know, really wow them)
I wonder if by then, that the casino will have all the stucco or brick work done.Then after these guys and gals have all blown their wad's, they could all go for a tour of P.G.,I can just hear the loud speaker on the bus, little Collin saying don't worry folks we didn't just a dead moose on the road ,that was just a little pothole we seem to have a few.....