Monday, August 20, 2012

Ottawa -- Pay up that $1 Billion you promised...

Over at Opinion250.com - PG Writer/Columnist Peter Ewart takes both Cariboo-PG MP Dick Harris and PG-Peace River MP Bob Zimmer to task over a 2006 promise to deliver $1 billion in pine beetle funds to this region and after 6 years - nothing!

That billion could do plenty for local communities including new economic mitigation measures and also new recreational opportunities for the communities of the Cariboo-Chilcotin including Quesnel, Williams Lake and 100 Mile House

Read the hard-hitting op-ed here

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