Some folks, politically speaking, can’t really tell the forest from the trees what the new presidency will branch out to. Without question, the timber of this administration is flowing with the sap of conjecture and speculation plus running rings around whatever roots that existed since 1776.
Many are completely out on a limb and the days certainly are a changing. As lumbering as this pun-filled theme continues and here a May provincial election looms, we’ll just have to see in Beautiful BC, what political two by fours we will export, very softly, no doubt. I wonder how W.A.C. Bennett would have reacted. If memory still serves correctly, there were some direct negotiations with Lyndon Johnson in order for the Columbia River Treaty to be signed.
Every time I think of the Upper Levels Highway in Horseshoe Bay, underneath the same rails still today carried, Bennett`s dream, B.C. Rail. Curious, I asked a local librarian to Google what ever happened to our former premier’s dream. The printer spit out that track now belongs to Canada’s privatized Canadian National Railways, based in Montreal. Microsoft co-founder, Bill Gates is listed as the largest shareholder. The information was posted April 25th, 20ll by CBC NEWS.