A day after slamming his own government for having a so-called`"race-based" West Coast Fishery, Conservative MP and certified wingnut John Cummins called on Trade Minister David Emerson yesterday to kill the Pacific Gateway Transport corridor project aimed at improving transportation in British Columbia. Anyone who has spent time in the Lower Mainland knows the absolute need for adequate infrastructure, apparently Cummins thinks products should be airlifted or teleported to the ports.
Cummins said Ottawa should launch public consultations and bring in world experts to ensure all steps are taken to mitigate the project's impact on the environment and quality of life in Delta, Surrey, Langley and other parts of B.C.'s heavily-populated Lower Mainland.
"It makes no sense to push ahead and spend all of this money on a port that makes the communities adjacent to it little more than doormats on which passing freight wipes its feet and leaves nothing but misery and disruption behind," he said in a statement.
Cummins, increasingly at odds with Prime Minister Stephen Harper's government, issued a news release shortly after B.C. Tory MP James Moore rose in the House of Commons to extol the Tory government's latest installment of $360 million.
Umm, err, what he said...
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