Missing a golden opportunity

Editor:
Your recent editorial, “Opportunity wasted”, completely ignored the wishes of the 1,000 or so people that turned out at City Hall on November 3, 2003. We do not want the government to sell BC Rail and council passed a resolution that a motorium be placed on its sale for two years.
That the mayor sit on a politically-appointed board to facilitate the sale is unquestionable. It is already known that Mayor Kinsley supports the sale. It is almost a certainty that if BC Rail is sold, the mayor and the two MLAs that supposedly represent us in Victoria will be history.
That’s how serious the sale of BC Rail is.
It is sheer stupidity that this government should try and sell all our Crown assets that have survived a number of right wing governments.
There is more behind these sales than political expedience. The government is probably inept at making our Crown corporations work. It is much easier just to sit back and direct traffic and let private corporations collect the profits.
And the biggest insult of all is that it will probably be another American corporation to reap the benefit.
There is a golden opportunity to tie BC Rail into Alaska. Are we going to blow it and let a private corporation take the gains made?
Kim Reynolds