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The value of voting Janaya Fuller-Evans staff reporter
Kei Esmaeilpour doesn’t care whom you vote for, so long as you vote. The Burnaby resident is displaying the campaign signs of all four of the candidates in his Burnaby North riding in an effort to reach out to potential voters. The signs for Richard Lee, B.C. Liberal candidate; Janet Routledge, B.C. NDP candidate; Wayne Marklund, B.C. Conservative candidate; and Carrie McLaren, B.C. Green candidate, currently adorn Esmaeilpour’s front yard. Esmaeilpour, who has lived in Canada for about eight years, is the president of the Civic Association of Iranian Canadians, a nonpartisan nonprofit group that attempts to inform new Canadians about the democratic process and issues in Canada. “Our goal was increasing the level of participation by the people,” Politics Page 9
Larry Wright/burnaby now
Balanced campaign: Kei Esmaeilpour, a North Burnaby resident and president of the Civic Association of Iranian Canadians, has put campaign signs for all four candidates in his riding in his front yard.
‘TO ME, IT’S JUST THIS CONSTANT CONCEALMENT, HIDING HIS REAL POSITIONS ON THINGS,’ – CLARK
On pipeline: Clark takes swipe at Dix in Burnaby Jennifer Moreau staff reporter
Liberal leader Christy Clark took a swipe at the NDP’s Adrian Dix over the Kinder Morgan pipeline expansion Wednesday, shortly after casting her ballot at an advanced polling station in Burnaby. “(Dix is) the same guy who will obscure, who will conceal his positions on things, even really important issues like this one,” Clark said. “On the one hand, he says he
doesn’t want Vancouver to be a major (oil) exporting port, but he refuses to say whether or not he supports the expansion of the pipeline. … To me, it’s just this constant concealment, hiding his real positions on things. I just think it proves Adrian Dix absolutely has not changed from the last time he was in the premier’s office in the 1990s.” While Dix has publicly opposed the Enbridge pipeline project, he was reserving judgment on the Kinder Morgan expansion
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because the plan has not yet gone before the National Energy Board, which is expected to happen later this year. Then on Earth Day, Dix made an announcement stating he does not want Vancouver to become a major oil exporting port, and he wants a “made in B.C.” approach to environmental assessments, but he came short of stating he’s actually opposed to the expansion plan. (It’s not clear if he is taking this stance to allow for flexibility in the future or to avoid accusations of flip-flopping.) Kinder
Morgan wants to twin the existing pipeline, which runs oil from Alberta to the West Coast, and nearly triple the volume of oil to 890,000 barrels per day, bringing approximately 408 tankers per year to the Burrard Inlet. The line’s terminal storage tanks and dock, where tankers fill up with crude, are both in the Burnaby-Lougheed riding. Clark couldn’t speculate on the fate of the expansion if Dix were to form government. Pipeline Page 9
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