Dear Editor:
I have sat and read how the pipelines (Enbridge and Kinder Morgan ) were needed to get our oil from Alberta to the ports of B.C. and all the construction jobs they are going to make, but no one seems to speak up and say how many good jobs would be made here in Canada if the oil is refined here instead of overseas and then shipped from here. The refinery and downstream jobs for Canadians young and old would be huge, but it seems our federal and provincial governments don’t seem to be concerned about things like that. That is seen in our logs leaving here and also a lot of our minerals. It seems our people in high places are not concerned about the ordinary Canadian and good value-added jobs that should be made here, not somewhere else.
Denis Franks, Burnaby
