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Why are American oil tankers allowed to travel through Hecate Strait off the BC north coast? " Green Party Leader Elizabeth May’s baseless denial that oil tankers will ever navigate the B.C. north coast completely ignores the decades of safe shipping in the area, a reality made even more secure by modern navigation technology. Green Party MP Elizabeth May warned reporters on Wednesday against the possibility of oil tankers navigating Hecate Strait, citing its dangerous conditions to justify a controversial “tanker ban” in the area. “The inner waters between Haida Gwaii and the coast of Canada is something called the Hecate Strait,” May told reporters. “You should look it up.” A brief search would show that Hecate Strait, a critical maritime passageway between Haida Gwaii and the mainland of British Columbia, has been a route for various types of maritime traffic—including oil tankers—for centuries. “The water that flows through the sea has waves and currents that are extraordinary,” May further claimed. “They sometimes go down so low that they expose the ocean floor. That is why there has been a tanker moratorium on our North Coast.” While the Hecate Strait is indeed known for being a dangerous body of water due to severe weather, strong winds, and rough waves, especially during winter storms, this claim is false and misleading and modern seafaring in the area is frequently conducted safely. Indigenous peoples, particularly the Haida, Tsimshian, and Nisga’a nations, have also long navigated the Hecate Strait as part of their extensive maritime networks using canoes. The Haida, for instance, used it as a key navigational body of water, often relied upon when raiding coastal areas to capture slaves. The arrival of European explorers in the late 18th century, such as Jacinto Caamaño and George Vancouver, further demonstrates the strait’s navigability. These early mariners charted the area despite its challenges, paving the way for fur trade routes and later commercial shipping. You won’t find stories like this in legacy media. Become a Juno News premium subscriber today to support bold, fearless independent journalism. Subscribe As for the “tanker moratorium on our North Coast,” May’s comments, again, do not tell the full story. The so-called “moratorium,” initially established as a “commitment” by the Pierre Trudeau government in 1972, was extended to include offshore oil and gas activities but has never been an absolute ban on all maritime traffic. The Oil Tanker Moratorium Act, enacted more recently, specifically targets crude and persistent oil shipments, but only those exceeding 12,500 metric tonnes, allowing smaller vessels to continue operations and navigate the strait. May’s comment that Hecate Strait is “the most dangerous body of water on the Canadian coastline, according to the government of Canada,” is also inaccurate. True North could find no direct evidence that “the Canadian government,” specifically Environment Canada, has officially stated that the Hecate Strait is “the most dangerous body of water on the Canadian coastline.” While secondary sources, such as articles by paddling enthusiast magazine writers and environmental reports, have described it as highly hazardous, these claims are not directly attributed to an official government ranking or document. True North reached out to the Green Party for clarification on the source for May’s claim, but our calls were not returned. Despite May’s warnings about the dangers posed by the strait’s conditions, historical records and current maritime operations indicate that oil tankers have safely navigated, and continue to navigate, these waters for decades, particularly those associated with the transportation of crude oil from Alaska to U.S. refineries. Contrary to May’s claims, those tankers continue to operate and are often considered a crucial energy lifeline to those living in coastal communities. While no major nautical disasters involving oil tankers have resulted in significant spills directly in Hecate Strait, the broader British Columbia north coast region has experienced a few incidents and “near-misses” with petroleum vessels. Most recently, an American articulated tug-barge, the Jake Shearer, which transports fuel, separated from its fully loaded 80,000-barrel fuel barge during stormy weather in Hecate Strait, about 25 nautical miles southwest of Bella Bella. The barge drifted for several hours before being reconnected, but no grounding occurred, and no oil was spilled." Elizabeth May’s claims on B.C.’s north coast ignores centuries of maritime history

I've been struggling to understand all this. Is your position based on the fact that you don't like Trump and/or want to keep the US at arms length or is it that you sincerely believe a mixed fleet is the best option for Canada? I get the concerns about US control of parts, logistics, software, access and the like... even though I don't like it, it's not a deal breaker for me though. Instead of a hybrid fleet, how would you feel about Gripens across the board, ie no F35s at all? The reason I ask is that the decision to maintain a mixed fleet should come with significant advantages that clearly offset the costs associated with doing so... especially in such a small force. We currently have about 55 active (combat ready) fighter pilots in Canada and pilot recruiting, training and retention is a huge (not to mention expensive) challenge already. I was going to include a different analogy but I like your's better...

Being interoperable with the US has Always been our first priority...for lots of reasons, NATO demands it, AMMO resupply, munitions be it aircraft or ships, Spare parts, if you operate a small fleet such as the gripen parts are going to be an issue where as F-35 has thousands of aircraft in service and parts are readily available for dozens of nations. Our continental defense is on NATO plate and they have been trying to get Canada to keep its promises for decades now, the fact that none Artic nations within NATO are responsible for NATO's northern defense such as UK, etc....is telling... Right now European NATO countries are preparing for the next war NOW, some have adopted conscription, massive military investments, they are telling the world within the next 5 years Russia will attack...SO you or i can not say for certain that Canada will not be attacked, in some form or another. That's not NATO trying to scare non euro countries into action they are spending and investing at levels not seen before...Out military plans for all threats including invasion.... Nobody from Air command is pushing a mixed fleet, and certainly not a gen 4.5 aircraft....if that was the case we would have went with the super hornet much more capable than the gripen....both are outdated when dozens of counties are investing in gen 5 and 6 aircraft as we speak...might as well be flying kits....Nobody from Air command is pushing the gripen....that's our politicians and others, and Canadians which have a knot on for trump....which in this case over rides what the air force wants or what pilots pick out for survival... I have to ask do you let your wife pick out your power tools, that's what it is like when politicians pick out military equipment....

With the benefit of hindsight we can see that the Liberal government wasn’t in much danger of falling. Can we agree on that?

Cons help out the Libs. But lie about it. They hid behind a curtain! After it became apparent the budget was going to pass thanks to two NDP abstentions but also two other Conservatives sitting this one out, Scheer and Reid told the Speaker they wanted to vote against the budget but couldn't due to technology troubles inside Parliament. The Speaker allowed it. While diametrically opposed to the Liberal budget, sources say Conservative Party top brass don't want an election so soon after the last one — especially as polls suggest Carney is generally the preferred pick for prime minister over Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/conservatives-helped-pass-carney-budget-9.6983603

Your source is dated 2019....and is very outdated, It does not have issues in cold weather, they operate out of Alaska, all the time and there is no palm trees there... https://www.eielson.af.mil/About-Us/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/3591523/f-35-lightning-ii/ https://breaking-news.com.ua/en/news/world-en/defense-express-compared-the-operating-costs-of-the-gripen-with-other-fighter-jets/ A mixed fleet is the way to go according to you, and yet Many of the commanders of air command don't see it that way , maybe you can give us a source on what your basing this opinion on....or maybe like the other posters on here it is based on nothing really. Yes Gripen is more cost efficient to fly, one could also say the spitfire would also be more efficient to fly and maintain, but lacks everything the F-35 offers, your comparing a 4.5 fighter to a 5 th gen fighter it is not apples to apples ...Canada has a long history of keeping equipment for 40 plus years...the world is working on gen 6 aircraft now....and god knows what they will be working on in 40 years....SO why invest in a fighter that is outdated already.. If it is all about saving money then like i said buy spitfires....I find these comments funny because Our own military pilots have chosen the the F-35 in 3 separate competitions. each one of these competitions found the Gripen placing at best 3 rd place because 2 European competitors dropped out... Nobody is even bringing that point up....why would we pick a fighter that does not even place in the top 5.. Are you suggesting that OUR politicians know better than the men and women that fly these machines....or maybe we don't value their Live's enough to buy the best aircraft available at the time...which one is it...

They don't, it seems only nukes can do that while also deterring a conventional invasion - forever reducing our standards of living trying to keep up with the neighbors seems like a mugs game if there ever was one.

Whose argument? You are just continuing to make shit up and run away from being called out.

Threaten to give Ukraine 'teeth' ............. Russia will fold very quickly - at the least an Armistice. Additionally threaten to use the 1/4 trillion $$$ frozen assets to aid / rebuild / rearm Ukraine. China / NK / Iran are all contributing mightily to the Russian geo-conquest of Ukraine.......... largely goes unreported.

It's clearly an irreconcilable breakdown though. Listening to what people like you have to say apparently isn't even worth considering to a majority of Canadians. A majority of Canadians oppose further development of fossil fuels, with some polls indicating around two-thirds favor developing clean energy instead and over half want governments to phase out fossil fuels. It sure looks to me like you people will have to use violence and force to get your way.

Can we still put our faith in the Americans after Trump, though? Would a President Vance be any easier on us? I would trust the Swedes ahead of the Americans at the moment. Apparently, the Gripen is a lot cheaper to keep in the air too? Not that I know the first thing about this.

Thank you for proving me right.

re: Unfortunately, the BC NDP is strongly influenced by a relatively small number of environmentalists who are backed by powerful and influential environmental organizations and U.S. billionaire environmentalist money. Until a short time ago Canada had the ability to make moral judgements re: the environment, trading partners, humanitarian concerns..... the list goes on. However, that was then, reality is now and a family can't eat ideology.

So to people with military knowledge here: F-35 only or with the Gripen? What criteria should be looked at? The cost of keeping them airborne seems to favour the Gripen. After the many threats from Trump, can we trust the Americans to support our F-35 planes and keep them working through the minor squabbles all neighbours have? I know that question would not arise with the Swedes. On the other hand, the charming US ambassador seems to be saying that the F-35s are an option we can’t refuse if we want a trade deal.

There will come a point when Trump will again have to decide if he will leave office. Last time he said that he would not and indeed took extreme measures to avoid doing so, but Pence, in a fit of conscience, blocked his move. This time he has laid much more thorough groundwork. Constantly pushing authoritarian boundaries and breaking down the rule of law is simply "grooming" America for the end of democracy. Federal troops in city streets? We're used to it. Pardons for citizens who attack the government in his service? Used to it. Extrajudicial arrests, deportations, imprisonment and murders? Used to it. Replacing civil servants with blind loyalists? Used to it. A nakedly political justice system? Used to it. Attack on and transgressions of the first amendment? Used to it. Of course he is angry when patriots--those who actually served and sacrificed--remind the military that orders can be illegal and that illegal orders shouldn't be followed. He can't afford to have military personnel question orders if he decides it's time to go all in. If he thinks he can pull it off, he will. That's why a simple statement of long-standing fact--a basic principle of military service--irks him so deeply. It undermines his long game. Rather than simply agreeing with them that illegal orders shouldn't be followed, he called them traitors and told his mob that they deserve death. (Will the mob take action again?) All for pointing to a cornerstone principle of the military. This is not a subtle process. Everything he's doing has been done before and we know where it leads. The people defending it simply don't care. They've chosen their side, and it is not America.

I wonder what response the Roboduh brigade would have if Trump enacted a similar law (as an EO) to silence dissenting voices on anonymous political forums that met his definition of disinformation? I'm reminded of the people who argued for (and justified) draconian restrictions on smokers under the guise of smoking's ill effect on THIER right to clean air. They never thought beyond the present moment nor did they consider what the precedent might have on the ambiance provided by their newly restored fireplace. They were actually warned about the possibility of this happening in some jurisdictions where a ban on wood burning fireplaces was being contemplated but proceeded at flank speed anyway. Just desserts IMO.

By all appearances, she looked around and realized what she'd been doing and for whom--and how hollow and unworthy the man is.

The deal was already baked and first announced by Trudeau but Canada was just supposed to wait for the Americans before officially putting it in motion. Carney took office and said no more waiting just go. It’s that simple. He spoke to the PM of Australia beforehand and then he announced it personally with much fanfare in Nunavut, on his 4th day in office so your statement that he wouldn’t have even known about it at that time is completely false and another example of how you aren’t even aware of very public events and make up your own stories.

This........ Being interoperable with the US has Always been our first priority...for lots of reasons, NATO demands it, AMMO resupply, munitions be it aircraft or ships, Spare parts, if you operate a small fleet such as the gripen parts are going to be an issue where as F-35 has thousands of aircraft in service and parts are readily available for dozens of nations. Our continental defense is on NATO plate and they have been trying to get Canada to keep its promises for decades now, the fact that none Artic nations within NATO are responsible for NATO's northern defense such as UK, etc....is telling...

Greatest presidential president ever.

Too weak.

We’re stuck with a handful of F-35s. It’s the best of a bad situation to pivot to the Gripen. No, but I think we’re stuck with the 16 we purchased in 2023. Maybe we could lease them out to Cuba or something, but we’re going to be getting some F-35s.

I don't see how a mixed fleet could reasonably be considered "the way to go" for Canada. There are a lot of pretty swept up senior officers who have struggled to align the recruitment, retention, attrition and operational tempo equation with limited success to date IMO. They seem to be aligned with a "don't go mixed philosophy" as well. Then again, I'm not a fighter guy and have no depth in that stovepipe. But... if we were talking about roles that I am familiar with, I would offer the same cautionary advice on mixing aircraft types. Are you opposed to an all Gripen fleet?

Clearly you're making shit up because you can't admit that the liberal gov't sucks. Are you an MP or something? Are you doing this to protect the job that you're doing so poorly? Canada is going downhill fast, and people are responding to that. There's a reason why people leave places like Venezuela and India to come to Canada, but now people who get the opportunity to leave Canada to go to the US are doing it more than ever. It's not a threat when they actually do it. And they started doing it right after Trudeau got elected. Remember? $135B in energy projects cancelled.... What a snotty, BS line... You just regurgitated something that you heard on CNN as if it's got some connection to reality, but you can't quantify it. Trump isn't gutting workers' protections. He's protecting the US economy if you're interested in saying anything truthful. 😂 I can see why some evil scientists might wanna move to a country where the gov't will force people to take their dangerous/useless injections, but what you just said is ret4rded. Again.

I agree the out come was planned for in advance, Everyone said the would vote down this budget....but in reality conservatives do not have the polling numbers , NDP is broke, Bloc was the only party that voted in good faith and did what they said they would.....I don't see anything changing by spring either...

Triggered leftie loser who can't refute a single thing being said and resorts to grade 3 insults like 'wrong wingers' in a desperate attempt to soothe his broken and shattered ego is triggered

Clearly a veiled threat - some kind of blackmail - "Gut worker's protections, rights and wages, like Trump is doing in the US, or we go." It's noteworthy, though, that at the same time many American professionals indicate they are considering moving to Canada. One recent survey put the figure at 75% of American scientists considering moving here. Canada's federal budget ... pledged a targeted injection of up to $1.7 billion over the next 13 years for measures to recruit top international talent, including senior scientists and scholars to serve as research leads and funding for their labs and projects. There would also be money to lure doctoral students, post-doctoral fellows and assistant professors to relocate to our universities. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/fedbudget-highered-talent-recruitment-9.6976821

Well as we've seen that's a lie. The companies are leaving as well. What you're trying to do is downplay the seriousness of the situation. And that's really not appropriate, even if you are a liberal supporter this is a bad thing and you shouldn't be trying to pretend otherwise Was mentioned that's not the problem here. Taxes, regulation, expensive materials due to carbon taxes, a lack of trade within Canada so the customers are in the united states already, all of these things contribute massively to the issue and they are things that are within our control. So it is an absolute lie to suggest this is outside of our control The liberal government is perpetuating a number of business killing policies that is keeping new investment out of Canada and driving existing business out. You should care about this. Apparently you don't.

Foreign war? The strategy should be to be seamless in the contribution to what is really important - and that is the survival of NATO. Let's cut to the chase - it is critically important for Canada to be in lock-step with the U.S. wrt to defense platforms. The ability to have a (dare I say) Continental defense policy in training, platforms and technology cannot be over emphasized. OMG!

A mixed fleet is probably the worst option possible. I think manning the new UAV/UAS and P8 will present enough challenges without spinning up two separate fighter streams. How people don't see and acknowledge some of this stuff is one of life's little mysteries. I don't think they realize how difficult it is to out-train an existing personnel deficit whilst introducing new equipment without so much as a body of corporate knowledge on it. It's taken years but we've arrived at a point where balancing the recruiting, attrition and operational tempo equation (whilst out-training deficits) is really problematic. Managing this requires a five year look ahead horizon and tweaking anticipated requirements as circumstances change. Hard to do that when you're treading water, border line hypothermic and sharks are nibbling at your toes. From what I hear recruiting is barely keeping up with attrition... throw in a combination of intake delays, extended OJT periods, and OTU backlogs and the time to produce a combat ready pilot is now to the point that if I could do it again.... I wouldn't. That's pretty huge BTW so It's worth reading that last sentence twice. At 24 I was an aircraft captain and mission commander, fast forward to now and I'd be finished university with basic training completed and doing a year long french course whilst awaiting a slot at PFS. It can be done... but I sure wouldn't want to be in charge of fixing this.

Major Canadian military contracts this year include a new combat management system for the German navy, the second phase of the Counter Uncrewed Aircraft System (CUAS) project, and a trilateral icebreaker collaboration with the US and Finland. Additionally, the government launched the Defence Investment Agency to manage procurement, and a $100 million night-vision contract for the Canadian Forces is being restarted due to an alleged bias against U.S. firms. Recent and ongoing major contracts Counter Uncrewed Aircraft System (CUAS) Project: A contract worth over $169 million was awarded to CACI, Inc. – FEDERAL for the second phase of this project. It will equip Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) members on Operation REASSURANCE with technology to counter drones, integrated onto new light armoured tactical vehicles. Combat Management System (CMS 330): Canada is a party to a deal with Germany for the sale of its CMS 330 combat management system, which is projected to exceed $1 billion. The agreement will strengthen military cooperation and allow both navies to share technology and data. Icebreaker Collaboration Effort (ICE Pact): Canada signed a statement of intent with the United States and Finland to collaborate on Arctic and polar vessels. This includes sharing resources and technology to design, build, and market these vessels. Submarine Procurement: Canada has sent bidding instructions to ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) of Germany and Hanwha Ocean Co. Ltd. of South Korea for the construction of the navy's new submarines. F-35 Fighter Jets: Canada aims to acquire new fighter jets to replace its aging CF-18 fleet. The program is still in development, but potential suppliers are pitching their services and technologies to Ottawa. Other relevant announcements Defence Investment Agency (DIA): A new agency was launched in October 2025 to manage defense procurement, with a focus on bringing Canadian industry into the process. Night-Vision Binoculars: The Canadian government was told to re-bid a $100 million contract for military night-vision binoculars after an earlier contract was reportedly biased against U.S. firms.

You are just going to ignore that Obama invited him to dinner AFTER Epstein was convicted? Or that a D congresswoman was taking advice during a hearing from him AFTER Epstein was convicted? Or that Jeffries was begging him for money AFTER Epstein was convicted? Or that Epstein blamed Trump for getting arrested? Or that Epstein hated Trump?

Video #2 as things break: Jeffries was pals with Epstein.

This video destroys...I mean DESTROYYYYSSSS!!!! every democrat talking point used in this thread. Epstein donated tons of money to dems. Epstein helped dems in hearings against Trump Epstein hated Trump because he thought Trump turned him over to the FBI. And so on. It is all in the video. Enjoy.

That's not going to happen as long as the Left is full of crazed identitarian fruitloops obsessed with children changing gender and demanding black people take over the world because they're so much more moral than whites.

What’s hilarious is that Trump announces his sham investigation into Democrats’ alleged Epstein ties ONLY after emails come out indicating Trump knew about Epstein’s girls and had been around them. It’s such a desperate and transparent attempt at distraction and the fact that he only wants to investigate democrats not others in Epstein’s orbit is pathetic. There has never been a more corrupt regime so willing to abuse power than this president.

Trump supporter in the rightwing media says Epstein wasn’t a pedo. 15 year olds are “barely legal”. That’s a relief to conservatives, eh? Now they can feel better about their president’s penchant for young teens girls. Kelly continued: “This is this person’s view, who was there for a lot of this, but that he was into the barely legal type. Like, he liked 15-year-old girls. And I realize this is disgusting. I’m definitely not trying to make an excuse for this. I’m just giving you facts, that he wasn’t into, like, 8-year-olds. But he liked the very young teen types that could pass for even younger than they were, but would look legal to a passerby.”https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/11/megyn-kelly-epstein-pedophilia-russell-brand/ And this comes as a HUGE relief for Catholics. Now they can claim their priests weren’t pedophiles, they were just gay. I’m not entirely sure how this justifies the child exploitation though. Maybe a Catholic here can shed some light on it? Why does this matter to the Catholic League? For too long, the media and the chattering class have said that the Catholic Church clergy abuse scandal was due to “pedophile priests.” Wrong. The data clearly show that the vast majority of priestly victims were male (81 percent) and that 78 percent were postpubescent. Why is this important? Because it means the molesters were homosexuals. When males have sex with males who are postpubsecent, that’s called homosexuality, not pedophilia. https://www.catholicleague.org/megyn-kelly-is-right-about-epstein/

So we see clearly as the shit gets closer to the fan how the President desperately increases his distraction by ordering Justice to investigate Democrat ties to Epstein. Don't be mad at me for stealing $10 from your purse, mom! Billy broke the window with his baseball last year and cost you $500 deductible. He's the bad one you should punish! I'm a Saint by comparison. Speaking of Saints, this corrupt, malicious, lying, petty and demented scumbag in the White House makes Nixon look like one with every passing day,

What are you trying to say? That enviro-tards are liars? So what? Do you think it matters to herbie, eyeball, ex-flyer, MH etc if May/Trudeau/Carney/Singh and the CBC lie? Watch and learn

All lieberals and NDP Marxist buffoons are buffoons. That is not being ignorant. That is telling the truth, buffoon. 🤡

Anything and you credited him with the deal. So you're mad because the start of your sentence doesn't match the end of your sentence and it's somehow my fault Carney didn't do any of that. Carney did not get into the office and decide in 4 days that he was going to be able to jump the queue etc etc. Carney would not have had any knowledge that the deal was even happening four days after he took office. And even now you are sitting there saying that the work had been done before carney got in under Trudeau but you're trying to credit Carney for pulling the trigger on it which is absolutely not true. Carney has actually done nothing. To be clear this deal would have been done whether carney was in power or not. Carney had no bearing on it at all. As we move forward through the next year there may very well be things that we can say carney did or wouldn't have happened if carney wasn't there but at this point in time that's not where we're at and certainly not over something that happened 4 days after he arrived Give your head a shake

LOL is that what you mom askes you after breastfeeding? I'm pretty sure you still do

I accept your admission of defeat

“Bill 36, the health practioners and occupations act” in BC is the new commie legislation that was brought in to silence any critics from ever challenging the college of physicians and surgeons’ orthodoxy again.

Not only is the threat of the $200,000 fine and six months in prison hanging over doctors’ heads, the college of physicians and surgeons can now unilaterally suspend any doctor with as little as one anonymous complaint, if they see fit.

No he didn't. I doubt he'd even heard of it. Staffers would have said "this is what we're doing btw' and he'd have said 'er ok'. THis is right up there with him creating an office to announce a bunch of major projects which were already happening regardless then trying to take credit for it He did nothing

NATO already uses a mix of fighter jets, so the interoperability argument is BS. Gripens operate with F35s already. Several NATO countries use a mix of combat aircraft. So that argument is rather silly. The retired general (Lawson) doing the rounds in the media pretending to be giving his expert opinion about how terrible the Gripon would be for Canada is paid by Lockheed as an “advisor”.

The BC NDP has driven the province into a deep deficit. The expected BC deficit for the 2025-2026 fiscal years is 11.6 billion dollars. Yet the BC NDP opposes oil pipelines and oil drilling. This article says there is billions of dollars worth of oil under the sea off the BC north coast that is not being developed. Why is Newfoundland drilling for oil in the Atlantic ocean, but B.C. does not off the west coast? This news article from Oct. 23, 2012. " A high-profile conservative think tank says B.C. could make billions of dollars if the ban on oil exploration off the province’s coast was lifted. The Fraser institute issued a report Monday, calling for a suspension of the 40-year-old federal moratorium on West Coast offshore drilling. The report says that big rigs like those off Newfoundland and Labrador could bring in $9.6 billion for B.C. over the next 25 years. "Because we waited, we're in the enviable position that we can learn from successful regulatory regimes, like the one in Newfoundland, the United Kingdom," said Joel Wood, a Fraser Institute Senior Research Economist. The Geological Survey of Canada estimates there are enormous reserves below Hecate Strait and Queen Charlotte Sound off B.C.’s north coast, the report said. The report acknowledges that offshore drilling comes with huge environmental risks. Spill reverses financial outcome If there was a major spill, like the BP oil well blowout in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, the financial result reverses and becomes a loss of nearly $9 billion. However, the Fraser Institute report says that outcome is unlikely, given the track record of offshore rigs in other jurisdictions. "The benefits outweigh the costs," Wood said. "And a majority of the benefits flow to the provincial and federal government." The federal moratorium is not written into law, but has been federal policy since 1972. The Fraser Institute says if the West Coast was opened to oil drilling a major spill would be unlikely. (Getty Images) A decade ago, the B.C. Liberal government was asking Ottawa to lift the ban, but not anymore. The current government of Premier Christy Clark says her government isn't pushing for any offshore oil exploration, despite a call by one of her MLA’s to revisit the idea. Nechako Lakes Liberal MLA John Rustad recently posted an argument on Facebook in favour of offshore oil extraction, saying it was the only way B.C. would get out of debt. Some environmentalists think those calling for an end to the moratorium have underestimated both the chances of a major spill and its real costs. "There's also no attempt in this report to value things like a healthy population of wild whales or the diversity of life that exists in the Queen Charlotte [and] Hecate Strait area," said Karen Wristen, of the Living Oceans Society. Any decision to open up the West Coast to oil exploration is likely to be very controversial in B.C. On Monday thousands marched on the B.C. legislature to protest plans to build the Northern Gateway Pipeline from Alberta to the West Coast, because of widespread concerns about the risk of an oil spill. Organizers say more protests are planned around the province on Wednesday. unquote Offshore oil worth $9.6B to B.C. says Fraser Institute | CBC News This is another resource that could create jobs and revenue for BC and Canada if it were pursued. But sadly as Canada sinks further into debt, it is intent on shooting itself in the foot. Unfortunately, the BC NDP is strongly influenced by a relatively small number of environmentalists who are backed by powerful and influential environmental organizations and U.S. billionaire environmentalist money. Even some hollywood movie stars have fought against some resource development in Canada. After all, parts of Canada are used for the rich elite to vacation and fish. Also influenced by FNs activists. But the main obstacle is the leftist BC NDP and now leftist federal liberals who are busy fighting climate change and could care less about debt as we've seen. The following article gives a clue where some of the foreign money originates from to fund environmental organizations. Besides opposing the energy industry, they also oppose logging under the pretext they are fighting to save old growth forests. 10 Billionaires Stepping Up to Fight Climate Change

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1Fu7827r5u/?mibextid=wwXIfr Coles Notes: a doctor with a small practice had 32 patients that were injured by the Covid vaccine, and after he spoke publicly about it the College of Physicians and Surgeons accused him of spreading disinformation and brought charges against him. The doctor hired a top lawyer, and got eight expert witnesses from around the world, and gathered over 1000 pages of evidence to defend himself in court. When the college of physicians and surgeons saw the mountain of evidence against them, and they knew that they had no chance of winning in court, they pulled the ultimate commie move and applied to the court for “judicial notice”, to disallow any evidence or testimony from the defendant to the effect that the vaccines were dangerous, just because it had been approved by Health Canada. When the judge denied their commie tactics they dropped the charges, but they didn’t admit that it was because they knew they were going to lose, they said that the lawsuit had run its course by silencing him. In reality, silencing him like that was still just another commie tactic by the college of physicians and surgeons. The college of physicians and surgeons literally sees their job as preventing people from hearing the truth from actual medical professionals. According to the doctor speaking in that video, a new law was brought in since then, and now doctors who are found “guilty of spreading misinformation” in the future can receive up to $200,000 in fines and six months in prison. The days of the church locking people up for challenging the orthodoxy have been replaced by the days of the college of physicians and surgeons locking people up in order to silence them. Are all of you Vax-fascists still really happy about this? Do you still feel like you were on the right side of history, eyeball, ex flyer, hodad, beaver, Herbie, etc.? Once Health Canada speaks, does every doctor in Canada just have to shut their goddamn mouths and do and say exactly as they are told, or face ruinous fines, and jail time?