Malahat

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Stopped for lunch in, uh, Nanaimo, struggled my way through Duncan, and, uh, over the Malahat, and honestly, it's, it's a lovely drive, perfect weather.

It's, like, great time of year, and this is arguably my, one of my favorite football stadiums, period.

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Um, and, you know, it's, uh, it's a...

it would be a great idea to get people over the Malahat, which is a, a dangerous mountain, uh, given weather.

Uh, but perhaps pilot projects to test this line out between, in the high population areas, which we're not, uh, Toronto to, to Montreal.

Uh, but the idea is to perhaps we have to, uh, crank up the gas prices, the fuel costs even more to get people out of their cars and think about using a train.

Anything other than that in terms of a tax cut would just be a gift to the oil-

Like, like, what-- are, are we talking about the, the cost of the gas from the refiners in Alberta? Like, does he know that the gas that comes out of the Trans Mountain pipeline into barges in Burrard Inlet and then gets, uh, shipped over here to the island where it gets loaded into trucks and driven down over the Malahat, does he know that a lot of that gasoline is actually produced by refiners in Alberta? Is the BC Utilities Commission going to say, "Dear Alberta Gasoline Refinery, you are not allowed to sell gas at that price 'cause we deem it to be unfair"? W- I, like, I don't, I don't understand how even if we look at the BC Utilities Commission here, given the interconnected interprovincial nature of our fossil fuel production and distribution and consumption, how the BCUC really could manage that.

And, and I don't, I don't-- Yeah, maybe I'm just reading too much into this and trying to actually make sense of a policy that's more slogan than substance.

But I just don't understand how he expects to do that

The issue of early childhood educators we have also discussed in the past.

Quite controversial in Juan de Fuca, Malahat with the Souk School District 62 Board of Education.

You recall the controversial funding for the pilot project that was not going to be continued going forward.

We had parents that were showing up.

So while the issue of ECEs and the issue of bus service and auditing the poor kids taking the bus, which is also something that we expect to get underway and the very near future if it's not underway already at District 62.

The overall issue, the overall discussion, the overall matter of whether or not the province of British Columbia is putting enough money, enough funding into the education system is something that I expect to be discussed at length over the next few weeks.

Maybe not so much in Juan de Fuca, Malahat, but the issue of funding for just education and childcare in general is is looking to be an issue in the course of one of the things that I'm curious about looking at and seeing is whether or not Dana Lajanes, who's a former suit counselor, and he did very well on suit counsel.

He was the top vote getter on suit counsel at the last election or one of them.

So we, we were all, um, we all got to meet, and Rebecca and I hit it off famously.

We had a lot in common, and we thought, you know, there isn't really an event north of the Malahat that kind of includes that part of the island and, and maybe we can find a way on Keating Farm, 'cause I mean, it's just such a gorgeous, uh, venue to work together and to sort of partner on this.

And we've been ta- chatting ever since and, and having meetings and planning and it's, you know, it's been a lot, a lot goes into it.

But, um, that's kind of how it all started is we just, we really felt, uh, strongly about connecting community around food, sharing stories and, and, uh, and making it more than just what's on your plate.

Tsawwassen a, a, a little, a little quicker.

Malahat moved a little quicker.

So, um, would I advocate a, uh, a, a faster process? Yes.

That is dependent on the, the willingness of all the parties, including, uh, the First Nation at the table to, um, uh, to move forward, uh, more quickly.

But this is a different strategy that will bring in significant more revenues in sort of like the very, very near future for DMG, and then enable them with those revenues to start looking at delivering some of their other sites.

Remember, they've got an option for that piece of land in the US, and they've also got some of the deals that they're doing with the Malahat in your neck of the woods, Bryce.

So overall, the future certainly looks very good for DMG once they get that LOI converted.

Yeah, it certainly does.