Gordon Campbell's War Against the People

But pause. B.C. Hydro is the public corporation which included an important gas side. It’s importance can be realized by looking at the Vancouver Sun, September 23 Weekend Review, five page special called “Staking A Future On Fossil Fuels”. The gas section of B.C. Hydro was stolen from the people of B.C., privatized, delivered into the hands of a former high executive of Enron, and then further integrated into George W. Bush-related operations of highly dubious character. When the assets of the people are quietly stolen by legislation so the people are robbed of what is theirs by right and by ownership, and when what has been robbed from them is handed to foreign private owners who will deliberately impoverish the Province and the population, the word “criminal” must be used about the transfer. . The five page special in The Vancouver Sun would never have appeared if (a) gas had remained in the hands of B.C. Hydro, if (b) the CanWest media corporation wasn’t actively failing to report on the energy theft in B.C. and co-operatiing to cover it up. The man I call Gordon Campbell’s personal representative at the Globe and Mail just launched a large B.C. Front Page article to say B.C.’s Health Care costs are crippling and must give way to increased privatization. (Globe and Mail, Sept 19 06 S1) Note the divide. First there is the situation that should arise out of the B.C. population’s ownership of energy sources, and then there is Gary Mason’s parroting of Gordon Çampbell’s intention to destroy medicare in B.C. as part of his theft and his giving our multi-billion dollar energy source to private corporate swindlers – “Corporate Capitalist Criminals of North America”. Since 2001 the Campbell regime has chopped Hydro into three pieces – claiming it is defending the integrity of the Crown Corporation. In fact, B.C. Hydro has been frozen, forbidden to generate the increase of a single watt of electricity. It has been forced to buy all further energy from private corporate operators. They are being given – as I write – control of the more than 500 B.C. rivers. One piece of B.C. Hydro is frozen. The second piece was sold to Accenture – an Enron offspring company, tied to wiped-out Arthur Anderson Accounting that went down in the meltdown of corrupt enterprises involved with Enron. Accenture claims it is lily-white and was no way connected to Arthur Anderson. Lies. It has a contract with the B.C. government to do all B.C. Hydro’s metering, billing, and financial services – a secret contract. Why a secret contract? To protect Accenture’s claim to be lily-white when it is not. The third piece of B.C. Hydro is The B.C. Transmission Corporation, “wholly owned” – a joke - by British Columbians. It has been constructed to circumvent requirements to service B.C. It is being wound into a U.S. energy grid that will rob British Columbians of any control over distribution, cost, or quality. In fact a new Enron situation will be set up in which private corporate owners of B.C. generated energy can sell it past British Columbians for inflated prices and then charge those – often falsely created rates – to British Columbians. What is more, that whole process will rob British Columbians of the assets by which they can pay for medicare, education, and most other social services. The B.C. Transmission Corporation will be an empty shell serving foreign corporations. The “open marketplace” sale of B.C. water-generated energy will drive electricity prices in B.C. sky high. And not only in household use. Costs to industry will sky-rocket making the cost of living, overall, in B.C. much higher. Poverty will increase. The economy will be hit. Gary Mason, Gordon Campbell’s personal representative at The Globe and Mail, will tearfully conclude that Canada’s universal medicare program just has to go. The rich will have medicine. The others will not. In the history of what we call civilized human kind, we have come to say “the law’s the law and has to be obeyed”. But great theorists have always rejected that statement. Even Edmund Burke who rejected the French Revolution said there are times when government is so corrupt it must be overthrown. British Columbians have to realize such a time is upon us, and they must confront openly the “criminal” law of the Gordon Campbell government. [Proofreader's note: this article was edited for spelling and typos on September 29, 2006]

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