Fraser Sockeye
by Alexandra Morton
Dear Mr. Ignatieff; I hope that you find better advice regarding the Fraser River sockeye collapse.  British Columbia does not need another toothless public process to deal with our salmon. We need a Judicial Inquiry. 

 

If you are serious reversing climate change you need our salmon to grow the forests that stabilize climate and suck carbon out of the atmosphere.  Someone in Ottawa has got to take the loss of this essential living powerhouse seriously.

Wild salmon are food security, a powercord between the open ocean and the Province of BC; they are an economic generator; they belong to the people. 

 

The federal government of Canada has already destroyed one of earth’s greatest renewable, natural food resources on earth with absolutely no accountability, Canada’s North Atlantic cod. In the analysis we find that government scientists, who the public was paying were muzzled...by government.

 

We need government under oath on this sockeye issue now, for this is the short moment of time when we can bring some of these runs back. Please read this article below...all those zeros mean salmon cycles lost forever.  This is not an accounting error this is a wipeout of a global resource.

If you can’t call for a Judicial Inquiry at this point in your career, I think it is clear you won’t be able to do it if you become Prime Minister. Stephen Harper couldn’t...he called for a Judicial Inquiry in 2005 when the sockeye failed. When he got into power he decided against that, and the problem was not remedied and here we are again, only this time there are zeros. The public are the losers again.  

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