Pat you should look into the land planner for the PG region. That guy has done more to kill this economy than any one man anywhere IMO. He has ruled out any possibility of crown land acquisitions and says that is part of history and as long as he is around no crown land will ever be sold for anything.

I had great plans to start an eco-tourism ranch and the perfect piece of land piked out for it... a former cut block that hasn't been replanted in nearly 30 years. Its location was perfect for the kind of business I wanted to operate, but the investment into the property (substantial) would require me to own it and not merely lease it for 5-year renewable leases.

No flexibility from the office of Integrated Land Management... basically told me there is no money in eco-tourism... in his 30-years in PG he has never given approval of a land acquisition for eco-tourism, because it brings in no return for the provincial government.

The office is run by and for multinational resource extraction and everyone else gets called names and insulted in a very rude authoritarian fashion that has no place in the government services.

When you were first elected Pat your main issue was opening up cut blocks to potential farming and ranching... you repeated this theme in your second term before becoming a minister. Now is your chance IMO to make some changes... and the manager of planning for PG at the Integrated Land Management Office is the first place to start IMO.

we have another 4 years of Pat Bell doing exactly the same as he has since he first got elected.....Eageone....nothing I feel.
he isn't going to change....
I think he is afraid of work so his buddy Cambell hides him away and he pops out for photo ops from time to time...

BCRacer, get a life. What planet have you been living on? Pat Bell has done a great job.I know NDPers that even like him. He is very well respected. This is something he has earned through his dedication and hard work.

How can you people wake up in such a negative mood?

Have a cup of coffee and stop and smell the roses.

BCRacer, get a life. What planet have you been living on? Pat Bell has done a great job.I know NDPers that even like him. He is very well respected. This is something he has earned through his dedication and hard work.

How can you people wake up in such a negative mood?

Have a cup of coffee and stop and smell the roses.

you are sure a liberal because you tell everyone twice what you are trying to say and it makes no sense You won't be saying that 4 years from now maybe you are doing working now but when your not let's hope your friend Pat can help you Wish you lots luck you are going to need it.

Marketing our wood in Asia is a great idea with huge possibilities if it goes good. It is too much of an opportunity to not chase down feverishly. A modest market there would have everybody back to work full time for years to come.

Pat sees this opportunity and pursues it, and if we were to employ him specifically and only to do that, he is worth having on payroll regardless of anything else he may or may not do.

It is too lucrative of an untapped market to ignore. That is the biggest job on his plate.

Shirley can hide Pat in the many potholes from PG to Hope - or better yet lets get her on the 4-lane highway to Vancouver and see if she does more than the 10 odd kilometers that has happened in the last 4 years.

BC and Canadian Lumber companies and pulp mills have been marketing lumber and woodpulp into Asia for the last 20 years of more. They do this on a continuous basis. That is part of their every day business.

I am at a total loss, when I hear people like Pat Bell talking about doing something that has been done for years.

Check your Canadian Ex;port statistics and you will see that we have been exporting to Asian Countries for years. We have been exporting to Japan since the late 50's and early 60's.

What the hell do you think these huge lum ber and pulp and paper companies do??????
Companies like Canfor, Weyerhauser, West Fraser, etc;etc; etc; have sales and marketing offices, and distribution warehouse, and storage facilities all over the world.

This all took place long before Pat Bell got into politics, and will continue long after he is gone.

"Pat Bell has done a great job.I know NDPers that even like him. He is very well respected. This is something he has earned through his dedication and hard work.How can you people wake up in such a negative mood? Have a cup of coffee and stop and smell the roses."

Precisely. Every day the same. OMG.