Letter to the Editor  Quarry Quarrel

By Paul Kemp

Canadian Action Party

Central Nova

In response to the $188m in damages filed by Bilcon for the decision of rejecting their demand for our Canadian Resources: how dare they shamelessly pursue $188m of the tax payers’ dollars for their rejected proposal to declare their rights to Canadian Natural Resources?

The realization of the potentials of nature’s treasures on, in or beneath the lands and waters Canadians call home are present and available to fellow Canadians and the world’s people, not only because a large and wealthy company has the ability to extract them, but because the Canadian people since the beginning of federation have built, through the nobility of work and the honest efforts of mind and body, all of the necessary infrastructures to allow the development of these resources in the present day.

No company or citizen of any other nation has the right or the privilege of partaking in the harvest of these natural resources without the full agreement and approval of the Canadian family since neither they nor their children laboured to build and pay for the educational systems that create the resource of skilled labour required to extract these resources, nor have they partaken of the massive expanse of the energy, transportation and communication systems and services to harvest these resources.

 Since Canadian families have, since the foundation of this country, paid the full price of the development of this nation, they also have rights to the primary voice in how, when, why and where these resources are extracted and shared with the world community.

 Comments reported in the Halifax Chronicle Herald on February 5 by Bilcon lawyer, Barry Appleton, show his complete ignorance of the meaning of a true democracy, the right of government to act as the official representative of the people and their core values. This company is making an assault on democracy itself.

 One of the comments made by Barry Appleton the lawyer hired by Bilcon to sue the Canadian people in the article that appeared in today’s Chronicle Herald “They used this concept of community core values, which they had no authority to invoke”  (Article is at http://www.thechronicleherald.ca/Front/1036076.html ) show his complete ignorance of the meaning of a true democracy, the right of government to act as the official representative of the people. It is the duty of government to know the core values of it’s citizens, and govern according to the will of the people.

 If he thinks he can extract $188m of tax payers dollars, money paid to our government by the people of Canada and for the benefit of the people of Canada, because the company was denied their quarry project in Digby Neck, Nova Scotia, I ask, as a member of the Canadian family, by whose authority does he speak for the people of Canada? And by what law of justice, fairness and honesty does he and the company he represents lay claim to our tax dollar for a decision that was in its entirety the right of the citizens of Canada?

 To the Canadian people, if these people find a sympathetic ear in any public servant or officeholder of our elected government, make your petition known immediately to all those in our government that understand community core values and who represent  the greatest good for the greatest number of Canadians, over the longest period of time. Individuals and corporations who seek to bully the Canadian people into submission to allow individuals who are unelected and unaccountable to the Canadian people to lay claims not only to our natural resources but now is even laying claims to $188m if our tax dollars. They have no rights to any authority over the social and economic affairs of Canada. Treasonous individuals in our government who do not understand community core values must be sifted from the rank and file of our government.

 The Canadian Action Party is the only political party in Canada that is presently addressing these serious flaws in the administration of our government as concerns the social and economic affairs of our nation. It is the SPP (The Security and Prosperity Partnership) and the Harper government   that allows Bilcon to sue the Canadian people and lay a $188m claim on our tax dollars.