Feds Offer Chump Change

The federal Conservative government announced another $6.5 million Friday to help stop the spread of the mountain pine beetle epidemic in B.C.
This is about equivalent to the amount P&T workers in Fort St. James have lost in payroll alone since October. Or to the amount those workers plus (pick any one mill in Mackenzie's workers) would have paid in income taxes this winter.
It's somewhat disheartening the Harper government will not invest the equivalent amount it will spend to lease tanks for Afghanistan, purchase one fighter or transport plane, let alone subsidize a splashy show for the Olympics to aid BC's main industry.
The only bright spot is that they are at least not yet signing Free Trade deals for Siberian lumber, so we're not as shafted as those thousands of laid off Ontario auto workers.
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