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The Northwest Community College long house makes a swell symbolic back-drop for a politician’s pitch for Joe Oliver,

Dear Sir:

The Northwest Community College long house makes a swell symbolic back-drop for a politician’s pitch for Joe Oliver, our natural resources minister, to share the boss’s vision for Canada in the 21st Century.

And the First Nations’ assigned place within it.

Whatever. It’s just another offensive in Harper’s crusade to liberate as much CO2 as quickly as possible from the Tar Pits of Alberta.

This time out, he’s “enhancing engagement with aboriginal peoples in the development of energy infrastructure.” Translation: a concentrated blitz by the feds’ chief comprehensive claims negotiator, meeting with recalcitrant bands along the Gateway freeway, to be completed by the end of November then handed directly to Harper. No pressure here, boys.

Poor old Joe. He looks squarely into the cameras, like Bambi caught in the high-beams.

He’s literally turning his back on a campus-full of our best and brightest – the kids with the hearts and the brains to figure out how to extricate us from the ‘energy’ mess we’ve gotten ourselves into.

He’s smiling at us,   all the while consigning the kids to a future of hewing wood and drawing water under an increasingly soiled sky.  Welcome to the Conservative conspiracy’s brave new world, kiddies.

Ah, Joe. Go back to Ottawa. Go gas your own planet, if you must.

Just leave ours alone, please and thank you.

John How,

Terrace, B.C.