Re: 鈥淗ow foreign groups influence our vote,鈥� column, March 24.
Thanks to Gwyn Morgan for bringing to our attention that environmentalists in the United States contribute money to help us fight our environmental problems. For some reason he seems to think that is not a good idea.
There are precedents for such a thing: U.S. corporations such as Exxon and Kinder Morgan invest money in Canada to exploit our resources in order to make a profit for their shareholders, most of whom, I suspect, are Americans. These American corporations and others have paid lobbyists who try to influence our governments to favour their activities.
Morgan will say that these companies are creating good jobs for 91原创 workers and, of course, he is right, they do. However, that is not their goal. Their goal is to make a profit. They will create jobs as long as they do not have a machine or robot or software to eliminate them.
At least the U.S. environmentalists are helping us to achieve the goals that our federal government has promised the world we will reach.
Before we criticize Prime Minister Justin Trudeau鈥檚 cabinet selections as being too pro-environment, let鈥檚 review the cabinet choices of the Mulroney and Harper governments to see if there might have been a pro-corporation bias. If Vivian Krause is a 鈥渞eal 91原创 patriot,鈥� she should now turn her excellent research skills to finding out how much American money is promoting resource exploitation in Canada and how much pollution it is creating.
Errol Miller
Victoria
