Gov't Take Over P&T?

Well yesterday's rally didn't seem to get beyond Prince George, with no major newspaper picking up the story. Diddly-squat on CTV news, a family of ducks was more important to them, while Global continues its obsession with Mackenzie.
Hers's a report from the PG Citizen that mentions the rally in passing while it interviews rally leader Winson Cheung for his idea of having the gov't run the mill while it finds a buyer. As Winson mentions, workers would work, the town would remain stable, and it would be cheaper in the long run that paying out EI for no results and watching the Fort die. Money from the operation may not be good until a buyer is found, but productivity and results from a closed mill and workers on EI is a complete zero.

Winson, you're an NDPer at heart or a True Liberal just like me. nfortunately Gordon Campbell et al. are not even close to Liberal. They're dyed-in-the-wool Tories masqeurading as Liberals, bent oon implementing free-market ideology on BC at any cost.
Let's never forget how a party so hell-bent on trashing the NDP they bad-mouthed the fast ferries even after they won their first election. Perhaps only to the public's surprise (not to theirs, they're chuck filled with car-salesman support), we discovered you couldn't sell those things for a nickel they'd been trashed so bad. Even when Nova Scotia companies were buying fast ferries from Australia!
Look back again at the Skeena Mill in Terrace. The prop-up by the NDP is now a neo-con legend as to how gov't intervention 'only messes up the inevitable'.
These people WANT the mills to go down. They WANT it to get so bad they can justify raw log exports and use the "at least the loggers are working, better than nothing" mantra that is bought buy so many of the richest per capita resource country in the world so easily. The few of us own so much, and we'll take the least we can get. That leaves the fewest of us few (or foreigners) to take the most they can get. THe core of neo-con ideology. I'm okay Jack, you can always work at Wendy's.
Terrace was devastated by the Skeena closure, it took years to recover and for a decade was a skeletal blight upn the town, a depressing reminder of what once was. Terrace has recovered, but it's geographical position as a central market for big-box outlets to draw from Terrace, Rupert, Kitimat and the Hazeltons was the only reason why. Some mines nearby HAVE opened, and are not mere promises. Had Skeena gone down on Day One, many of the residents would be gone. No workers to attract those big-box stores. No population to even consider the investment that did happen. The NDP bail-out bought time and saved that community!
So Winson, even though your idea makes the most common sense and is better for everyone all around, there's no hope of it being implemented.