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From YouTube: NOV 3 2022 Statements Adam Olsen
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The Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
3rd Session
42nd Parliament
A
Number
for
tennis
North.
Thank
you.
Mr
Speaker,
the
environmental
degradation
of
the
Saanich
Inlet
is
personal.
It's
a
culturally
and
ecologically
sensitive
glacial
forward
Fjord
that
has
sustained
countless
generations
of
my
ancestors.
This
is
the
place
that
I
and
my
relatives
belong
to.
As
a
boy
I
worked,
the
deck
of
my
father's
fishing
boat
as
visitors
from
around
the
world
came
to
experience
the
once
robust
salmon
fishery.
There
we
worked
under
the
dark
shadow
of
the
bamberton
cement
plant.
It
was
a
heavy
industrial
site
spewing
Ash
over
the
Mountainside
by
the
1980s.
A
A
What
about
my
children,
my
nieces
and
nephews,
quoting
a
1996
study
undertaken
by
the
provincial
Ministry
of
the
environment.
The
level
of
protection
afforded
to
Santa's
Inlet
must
be
based
on
the
most
sensitive
human
or
ecological
use.
Concept
of
a
simulative
capacity
must
not
be
viewed
as
in
pollute
up
to
level,
but
rather
as
a
tool
to
effectively
direct
protection
and
Remediation
efforts.
End
quote
this
summer.
My
father
bought
a
boat
and
we
returned
to
the
inlet
for
the
first
time.
A
In
20
years,
after
years
of
limited
industrial,
Activity,
The,
Fish
and
Wildlife
are
returning,
and
on
the
national
day
of
Truth
and
Reconciliation,
we
went
fishing
just
a
few
hundred
meters
from
bamberton.
My
nine-year-old
nephew
reeled
in
his
first
salmon
that
beautiful
Coho
netted
by
his
grandfather,
so
Mr
Speaker
any
proposals
to
return
to
the
heavy
industrialization
of
the
saanichen
that
will
be
met
with
Fierce
resistance.