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Freighters in Our Waters Upcoming UPCOMING COMMUNITY MEETINGS FREIGHTERS IN OUR WATERS VIRTUAL COMMUNITY MEETING January 14, 2021 As a Vancouver Island Member of Parliament representing the southern Gulf Islands and coastal areas bordering the Salish Sea, I have been working for years to get unwanted freighters out of our waters. 14 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm JAN This fall, I seconded a Private Member’s Bill from fellow MP Alistair MacGregor to ban freighters from anchorages in and around the Gulf Islands. But I recognize, as does Alistair, that the bill is primarily intended as a way to raise awareness. It will not be voted on in this session as MP MacGregor has another bill ahead of this one in the queue. And, honestly, it is not actually workable as legislation if IN-PERSON SIDNEY passed. COMMUNITY MEETING However, residents hoping to see changes need to have a full sense of how the situation got so bad, and 19 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm Bodine Family Hall—Mary Winspear how we can move to remedy the current practice. JAN Centre Here is the current situation: Freighters waiting to load cargo at the Port of Vancouver essentially have 2243 Beacon Avenue, Sidney unregulated free parking in and around the Gulf Islands. It stems from a time-worn tradition, part of our common law, that vessels are entitled to safe anchorage in inclement weather. It is the origin of the VIRTUAL COMMUNITY MEETING cheery “any port in a storm!” January 21, 2021 Transport Canada has marked thirty different sites in and around the Gulf Islands as designated areas for Elizabeth will be hosting two in-person but socially- 21 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm distanced community meetings, alongside two virtual safe anchorage. Those rights have been significantly abused in the case of the constant use of our JAN waters by foreign freighters. The local level of government, Islands Trust, has been very clear that the /ElizabethMayMP @ElizabethMay January 2021 community meetings in January 2021. Please join us to freighters are not welcome here. But the water past the low water mark is federal jurisdiction. discuss the issues that are important to residents of Constituents know that the situation has been worsening in recent years. Saanich-Gulf Islands and learn about Elizabeth’s IN-PERSON SALT SPRING ISLAND A MESSAGE FROM YOUR MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT parliamentary work in Ottawa. COMMUNITY MEETING We have arrived at our current situation through a tangle of unintended consequences. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ONGOING SUPPORT 23 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm And that tangled web takes us over the Rockies to the vast fields of Prairie grain. In 2012, the Harper If you would like to attend an in-person meeting, you Fulford Hall As we approach year-end, I do not think many of us connect with loved ones – likely by telephone or JAN government eliminated the Canadian Wheat Board. Prior to this decision, the contracts to buy and sell must RSVP by calling our office at (250) 657-2000. 2591 Fulford-Ganges Road, Salt Spring wheat were coordinated through the Wheat Board. So too was the shipment organized for many will have happy memories of 2020. It has been the video. Please visit our website to register for a virtual session! different growers, contracted through the Wheat Board to CN and CP. most difficult year for Canada since the last Great War. It is certainly a difficult year for the whole world. I am also really looking forward to the usual round of The delivery by rail to the Port of Vancouver was efficiently coordinated. Under the current inefficient January Community Meetings. We will have two down TAPE system, freighters with multiple holds come into the Port of Vancouver to have grain delivered to one Writing this newsletter and knowing the time for -sized, in-person sessions in Sidney and on Salt GENERAL INFORMATION hold, only to have to leave Vancouver and await the next shipment. With four holds, the start and stop printing and mailing means that things may have Spring (limited seating!) as well as two virtual and delays are costly to all concerned, while posing a real threat to our environment and way of life. This changed before you read these words, I hope we meetings. is costing grain farmers, shippers, and buyers as well as our coastal environment and quality of life. It is have better news about a possible vaccine. For now, I Please know that our constituency office has never Do you have questions about a the ultimate lose-lose equation. No one benefits and many suffer. am sure we are looking at a smaller version of our usual holiday season. We must remain careful and stopped our work. We remain available to help with federal program? The increasing use of our waters has also led to accidents as was the case on March 30th, 2020. A 200m vigilant. any challenges you may be experiencing with any freighter pulled anchor and collided with another freighter in Plumper Sound, between Saturna and branch of the federal government. Stay well and stay South Pender Islands. The collision caused one freighter to puncture the hull of the other. This could In this newsletter, I will share some of what I have safe! Need information on: have resulted in a fuel spill in the Southern Gulf Islands, a fragile ecosystem home to the endangered been working on on your behalf over the fall Southern Resident Killer Whale (SRKW). season. It has been a very busy time, but so very odd Sincerely, • Employment Insurance I have repeatedly pressed Transport Minister Marc Garneau to make a firm decision to get the freighters in that so much work has been done from home. It has been an exhausting blur! • Financial support during out of our waters. Thus far Transport Canada’s response has been far less than satisfactory. In February COVID-19 2018, Transport Canada launched the Interim Protocol (IP) for the Use of Southern BC Anchorages. This As I wrote in the last newsletter, in order to have was an effort to reduce the impacts of large vessels at anchor outside port authorities in southern British Parliament fully functional in a pandemic, one key required • Specific cases or files Columbia by such steps as turning off ships’ lights at night and reducing the noise of the generators. The postage postage change needed to occur. We needed to be allowed No No IP was supposed to be a six-month pilot project, but has since been extended twice. This protocol has • COVID-19 Benefits to vote remotely. Even though the British Columbia not been adequately enforced or followed. In short, it has been a failure. Nevertheless, the interim legislature had been voting remotely for months, Elizabeth May, O.C. protocol, if made permanent, would be equally unacceptable. Member of Parliament FOLD Canada’s Parliament was only able to take this step Call 1-800-O-Canada to Canada must modernize the way it ships grain in order to reduce the use of our waters as an industrial once the Conservatives agreed. Thankfully, all parties INFO Saanich-Gulf Islands zone. The Port of Vancouver is very efficient when it comes to the loading and unloading of container made the decision unanimously to allow Members of speak to a representative! ships. It is the shipment of goods in bulk, particularly grain, that is chaotic. Parliament to fully participate in all Parliamentary OTTAWA OFFICE business from our home constituencies. This change Confederation Building, Room 349 Working on this issue, I am increasingly drawn to see Australia’s example as a promising occurred on September 23rd. I was in the House at Ottawa ON K1A 0A6 approach. Australia has much better and more comprehensive regulations and protection within its 12 that point and stayed in Ontario until 1-800-O-Canada mile territorial coastal limit. Tel. 613-996-1119 Thanksgiving. Since then, (speaking of being Fax. 613-996-0850 (1-800-622-6232) Meanwhile, prairie grain farmers and Gulf Islands residents are both the losers from the failure to thankful!), I have been able to fully participate from organize and coordinate the shipment of grain to our coasts. This problem is fixable. We have at least my home in Sidney. CONSTITUENCY OFFICE two solutions: 1) get Transport Canada to bar freighters when in need of an anchorage of convenience - 9711 Fourth Street, Suite 1 not inclement weather; 2) bring back the Wheat Board, or at least its ability to organize the shipment of I have tabled remotely my Private Member’s Bill to Sidney BC V8L 2Y8 Telephone service hours are protect passenger rail service across Canada (Bill C- Monday to Friday, 8:00 am to grain to the coast. Noting that some freighters have coal in bulk, where the solution is to stop exporting Tel. 250-657-2000 coal at all. 251), debated in the House, and made amendments 5:00 pm (local time) to legislation. All virtually! Fax. 250-657-2004 It is the absence of political will to actually solve the problem, as opposed to kicking it down the road, that perpetuates an unacceptable situation. In all of this, my holiday wish for all constituents is elizabethmaymp.ca that we can enjoy the season of Christmas, Hanukkah and use the lull that happens over holidays to [email protected] ARE ANY BUSINESSES DOING WELL? WORK TO HELP THE TOURISM BUSINESSES OF FIGHTING TO PROTECT OUR SOUTHERN RESIDENT SAANICH-GULF ISLANDS It turns out some businesses are doing well amidst done for 30 years); KILLER WHALES the pandemic.
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