Steve Saretsky

Do you think people understand the irony with what you just shared?

You know, LNG projects going ahead and

you know, locally, they're not allowed to use it.

People who protest the loudest about something, they actually represent a very small percentage of people who have a stake in it.

So if they did put it to a, was it going to put a referendum?

No, just to a vote at council?

Yeah, you're absolutely right, Rich.

And that's the challenge with this situation, not only in BC, but everywhere else across the country and around the West, is that the view that people have, it's been completely shaped by the view that they're told to have.

So how do you educate people to at least make an informed decision?

It has to start in elementary school through high school, university, company to do it correctly.

But the ideology has just gone so whacked in Canada with a lot of this stuff, especially out there in BC, that even if they did put it to a referendum vote of some way, you're still not going to get the right decision made.

Because people aren't being informed, hey, this is what's really happening.

If you don't want to use LNG, or sorry, if you don't want to use nat gas in the city, you know, for your fireplace, and understand, tell us why you don't, but at least appreciate that is for climate reasons, hey, we're going to be shipping a ton of this stuff overseas anyway.

So, and then plus the stuff that we're using to, you know, to balance the deficit or the close the deficit on the grid, you know, it's actually coming from Washington state or Idaho.

Where's it coming, Steve?

That is a good question.

I don't know off the top of my head.

It's probably Washington, I would imagine.

And does it say what I mean?

I just, you know, my view with a lot of things in the world today is