No offense to Canadian parliament member Marc Garneau, but um. . . . duh! Apparently, Garneau thinks that Enbridge could use some lessons in dealing forthrightly with the public:
“Enbridge needs to learn about public relations. You don’t come in and treat people that way,” said Garneau in an interview On the Coast with Stephen Quinn on CBC Radio One in Vancouver.
Garneau is right on the money, of course. It’s just that we’ve been saying this over and over for months (again and again and again). And even we aren’t telling many readers of this blog anything they don’t already know from first-hand experience. Still, we appreciate Mr. Garneau speaking out, even though the record shows that Enbridge, in fact, does and has come in and treated people that way.
Our neighbors to the north (well mostly the north as Detroit IS south of Canada-land) are always exceeding my expectations in their reactions to Enbridge. If our government and citizens were half as interested in what these tarsand oil companies and the pipelines transporting them, I would be appreciative.