It’s All For Sale
Wouldn’t you know it, the company that bought Terasen against the wishes of a majority of the people in this province, which purchased BC Gas and privatized yet another essential service, is now moving to turn into a private company itself. This has a lot of advantages for Kinder-Morgan, mostly in that regulations for private companies are a lot more lax than for publicly traded companies.
Let’s see what we have we sold so far - so much electricity that we have to pay a premium to buy it back when we run out, the natural gas and crude oil pipe lines, the telephone lines that once belonged to the province, almost all the timber, all the ore, the rail system to transport goods, the work of dunning citizens for taxes, and our privacy. Not bad for just a few years work, the neocons and corporate wigs should be pleased. Next up is to break that nasty transit union in Toronto, the employees aren’t really human anyways and what right do they have to complain about the unnaturalness of working night shifts? Grab some water and we’re outta here to exploit the next country.