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Hansen Urges All to Take Advantage of Pacific Opportunities

By 250 News

Thursday, January 17, 2008 01:35 PM

Prince George, B.C –  The “Pacific Century”, that is what  Colin Hansen, Minister of Economic Development, the Olympics and the Asia Pacific  Initiative,  calls  this era. 

In his address to the delegates at the Natural Resource Forum, Hansen said while the Provincial Government is planning for prosperity  “ It is people like you  who will have to stoke the engine.”

 Hansen talked about the  opportunities that lie ahead  with  new trading partnerships  in Asia.  Those in attendance, (including Mayor Colin Kinsley) chuckled when Hansen said  he had  “traveled to China nearly as much as Colin Kinsley.”

Hansen says hislatest efforts are to generate an interest in the bio fuel industry and that countries like Japan and Korea are very interested.

Hansen encouraged all to look past the forest industry troubles “This is not the time to dwell on rough waters we have been through in the past, nor is it the time to fixate on  the few storm clouds that may  be in front of us.  This is actually the time to  look  past that,  and trim our sails to a  destination that seizes the opportunities of the Pacific Century."

    


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Comment Posted by: lmorg on January 17 2008 6:15 PM
ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ......
Comment Posted by: Andyfreeze on January 17 2008 7:07 PM
Nothing more to be said.......ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
Comment Posted by: DPJ on January 17 2008 7:26 PM
more optimistic news story than all the USA recessionary ones that come up every day. Lets focus on the more uplifting onesfor a change. May be a better world if everyon did that.
Comment Posted by: Runner46 on January 17 2008 8:25 PM
Hello anyone home???

There are no echos in this room! Where has everyone gone.


Gotta look elsewhere I guess..
Comment Posted by: ditty on January 17 2008 9:11 PM
the good ship lollipop
Comment Posted by: socredible on January 17 2008 10:51 PM
"Uplifting ones", DPJ? Like selling bio-fuel to the Japanese the way we sold them Tumbler Ridge's coal? For less than it cost us to produce it! Liberal economics ~ let OUR gasoline, electricty, etc. be paid for by British Columbians at the 'World Price', while we Globally compete to sell our energy to foreigners cheaper than anyone else! Hansen and Gordo will make BC 'number one' again alright. Counting from the bottom up!
Comment Posted by: DPJ on January 18 2008 1:06 AM
At least this keeps jobs going in Tumbler Ridge instead of it ending up as a ghost town
Comment Posted by: socredible on January 18 2008 7:45 AM
Precisely, DPJ. But when anyone suggests we do the same thing for OUR OWN consumers, i.e., make it possible to buy products made from OUR own resources at less than their (financial) costs of production? "Can't be done!", comes back the chorus. But we do it for foreigners at every turn. Because we haven't yet figured out the difference between the 'job' and the 'income'.

The 'job' ~'work', in other words, is simply a functional activity of man. Like sleep. It's a 'MEANS to an end', not THE 'end'in itself. The only sane and proper 'end' is to provide actual goods and services that can be consumed as, when, and where required. The 'income' is merely the financial aspect ~ the distribution of financial COSTS that will be recovered in PRICE, that facilitates the process.