Reckless on Jobs

John Cummins’ breath-taking flip flops on improving roads, ports, bridges and airports (the Pacific Gateway strategy) is further proof we can’t trust Cummins on jobs and the economy. Over the years Cummins has opposed numerous measures to create jobs for British Columbians and to increase British Columbia’s trade with Asia. Cummins opposed the Delta Port expansion, the Port Metro Vancouver merger, and the Asia Pacific Gateway project.

Given his anti-Gateway job-killing stance, it’s not surprising that Cummins also opposes the Premier’s job-creating program to improve BC’s trade with Asia. Cummins is simply all over the map on Gateway:

• Cummins opposed the Delta Port expansion, the Port Metro Vancouver merger, and the Pacific Gateway program.
• Then, Cummins and the BCC supported the construction or upgrading of pipeline or other movement corridors to facilitate the export of oil and natural gas through BC ports.
• Less than a month later, Cummins opposed the Premier’s jobs plan – a plan that includes $15 million in funding for Road Rail and Utility Corridor in Prince Rupert, and supports developing up to three LNG plants in Kitimat by 2020 – despite the support for such a plan from his party’s policy document.
• Finally, at the BCC Convention, Cummins’ party passed a policy resolution in support of the construction or upgrading of pipeline or other movement corridors to facilitate the export of oil and natural gas through BC ports.

Whether he’s calling himself a conservative and voting NDP, or opposing measures to increase British Columbia’s trade with Asia, you just Can’t Trust Cummins. During these tough economic times, people want clarity and leadership – not the contradictions and disarray offered by Cummins and the BCC.

Sources:

• johncummins.ca, Mar 22/07
• Delta Optimist, Jun 23/07
• johncummins.ca, May 9/09
• BCC Policy, Aug 23/11
• BCC News Release, Sep 20/11
• BCC Policy, Sep 17/11