Ignatieff asks Liberal Party Critic for Asia Pacific Gateway Sukh Dhaliwal to Respond to Concerns about Gateway

Ignatieff spoke at length earlier about trade with China and the potential for sustainable infrastructure projects (see my other clips) but did not give specifics about local impacts of the proposed Terminal Two at Delta Port, the proposed South Fraser Perimeter Road or the proposed doubling in size of highway 1 and the Port Mann bridge. When the moderator asked about Gateway a second time Ignatieff passed the question to Sukh Dhaliwal who called for "a balanced approach". He suggested making burns bog a biosphere reserve but that wouldn't necessarily protect the region from these harmful mega-projects.

The Gateway to Global Warming as it has been called could also be called a carbon bomb that might be set off in our region featuring a proposed tripling of the truck traffic and tripling of the giant polluting cargo ships not to mention all the new car traffic it would induce and the car dependent sprawl it would enable.

The gateway project is the antithesis of smart growth both in terms of development in the Vancouver Lower Mainland and in terms of our international trade. We need to export sustainable technology not oil and raw logs.

As the global economy collapses the question is how we re-build it. Building Gateway would mean not learning from our mistakes.

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