Dear editor:
The Government of Canada needs to start supporting and promoting Canadian pipeline projects like Energy East and they must do it now.
While it is important to give these types of projects appropriate safety and environmental consideration, we can鈥檛 continue to play divisive political games with them. If our politicians keep doing this, our country will lose out on opportunities for increasing foreign investment, creating jobs, and growing the Canadian economy.
We鈥檙e all familiar with procrastinating on tasks that might be difficult or annoying. Our federal politicians are no different. Why work on a potentially controversial pipeline project when you can just request an additional review of the project and put it off for another year. This is a classic case of procrastination, writ large in the context of our national government.
Just like getting your kids to do their homework when you know they鈥檇 rather be playing video games, we need to tell our federally elected representatives to sit down and do their work. No more distractions, negotiations, or excuses about why it can鈥檛 be done鈥� they just need to sit down and do it.
We don鈥檛 want Canada to become known as a country that procrastinates on projects because they might be a bit difficult. We need to work harder at becoming a place that the rest of the world envies because we just get hard things done.
We need to move beyond playing games with Energy East and pipelines in general. Let鈥檚 get them done.
Steve McLellan
CEO, Saskatchewan Chamber of Commerce
