It should have never been built. It should have never been built from the very beginning. When we went to the National Energy Board, they gave us 45 minutes to explain a 1,200-page assessment. At that time, they hired Steven Kelly to put in 20% of Kinder Morgan's application on behalf of Kinder Morgan to the National Energy Board. He then was hired by the National Energy Board. They said, “We're going to fix this mess,” which was the ministerial committee. They said that they hired first nations, but those first nations were former employees of Kinder Morgan. This is what we've been dealing with the whole time, right along the way.
What we do, as the Tsleil-Waututh Nation.... For the first time in 45 years, we did the clam harvest because we're cleaning. We hand-planted eelgrass, which brought back herring, which brought back gray whales. It was the first time I'd seen them in 40 years. I've never seen a sea lion in this inlet, and they came back. Our salmon count went down to 6,000—we brought it up too—10 years ago. We brought it up to 1.3 million in one day last year. It's up in the millions. That's what we're protecting.
Vancouver has been voted one of the most beautiful places to live, and that's what we want to continue to have it be. There are green energy alternatives. There are things that I work in that make sense. This doesn't make sense. Like I said, it's a $17-billion to $20-billion problem that isn't going to go away anytime soon. This is what the taxpayers are stuck with.
I'm afraid for my friend, my brother, my relation, that.... Like I said, it's economic smallpox. I'm happy to sit down with you and share the work that we have done and the work that we have done working with world-renowned economists that shows that this is a disaster.