Mr. Speaker, last week the highly respected international magazine The Economist gave the Prime Minister the title Mr. Dithers. Now the whole world knows what British Columbia residents have always known.
The Prime Minister breezed through B.C. during the last election throwing around promises and assuring voters he would end western alienation, but what has he done? Dither.
He is dithering over the pine beetle infestations ripping through B.C. forests. He continues to dither as the U.S. still holds $4 billion in Canadian softwood lumber duties, half of which belong to B.C. companies. Vancouver has become even more vulnerable to organized crime as he continues to dither over possible decriminalization of marijuana. The Fraser River salmon fishery has been mismanaged to a point where we have lost one-quarter of the salmon in the river.
The Prime Minister's dithering has dragged on for years. West of the Rockies, British Columbians are telling the Prime Minister to stop dithering, keep his promises and start putting his government to work for British Columbia.