How many changing plans for BC travel ?

[DaveB]

Don't you bc locals worry. Albertans will still be crowding your terrible highways I'm sure, and I'll probably be one of them... But I'm going to do everything in my power to make sure I'm not spending a dime in your beautiful province!
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Ditto. We usually make a point of shopping local when we tour BC. Not this year.

 

[pipes]

I live in Sparwood and camp on the kook. 1/2 of our camp is folks from Alberta. The highway is crazy busy most of the time so I would be interested to see if that changes. Camping season is almost here.

keep us posted on that. I too would be interested to see if there is any change. My money is on that things will remain the same.

 

[catinthehat]

Ditto. We usually make a point of shopping local when we tour BC. Not this year.

If you do shop local you are one of the rare ones. We are used to seeing the red and white plates roar in on Friday disgorging coolers and jerry cans, after a flurry of racing around and noise they leave on Sunday to repeat the next weekend.

 

[Got boost want snow]

I know when I go salmon fishing I do like to support local, most of the sporting goods stores in the Smithers and Houston area have seen a fair amount of my dollars. I do tidy tank my fuel because .20 per litre is a fair amount. Groceries required are all bought local to the area. I hate to punish these areas for the lower mainland and islands decisions. Sad that every way Alberta turns we are blocked trying to get the product to tidewater. It does benefit Canada in its entirety.

 

[Chump]

Last year i spent Canada day in koocanusa and it was the bc locals next to us that left the mess. Lots of slobs everywhere. Can't always judge by plate.

 

[Scrambled]

Buy the sounds of it it's going to be a great summer out here on the island,no red and whites driving like idiots or putting along,might actually get into some of our beautiful beach camping spots,please stay home at least for this summer,give us a break here since we are all greenys and hippies here we need our open spaces not clogged with flat landers.unfortunatly you all will still move here but once you do your thinking seems to change,strange hey .so enjoy your summer close to home and we will love ours out here on our island full of people who don't give a sh$t about all of you and your dirty oil.(of course it's not like that here but since most on here seem stedfas on thinking this we might as well join the game

 

[NoBrakes!]

We have friends with businesses in Revelstoke/Kamloops and will continue to support them, Can't really see myself taking sled trips in Ab. I'm not going out of my way to make a ripple in the ocean.

but the above posted is just the problem with Canada...

 

[LUCKY 7]

i really don't think there will be much of a change either. May long weekend is coming and that will tell the story. My Alberta camp neighbors are great and they always have cold beer so I hope they are coming.

keep us posted on that. I too would be interested to see if there is any change. My money is on that things will remain the same.

 

[Dooitorbust]

Grew up in BC but lived in Alberta just as long. For me, I’d rather drag my travel trailer all over western Canada then go somewhere like Mexico or the Dominican. As long as the price is comparable for a family of four, I’ll stay on home soil.

 

[skid]

I know when I go salmon fishing I do like to support local, most of the sporting goods stores in the Smithers and Houston area have seen a fair amount of my dollars. I do tidy tank my fuel because .20 per litre is a fair amount. Groceries required are all bought local to the area. I hate to punish these areas for the lower mainland and islands decisions. Sad that every way Alberta turns we are blocked trying to get the product to tidewater. It does benefit Canada in its entirety.

With the river fishing being mostly shut down our local fishing shops will be feeling the effect I'm sure. Oh and for the record I do support the construction of pipelines even though I'm from BC

 

[X-it]

Funny people are not concerned with the railroad transporting this stuff. But very concerned with pipelines. When really it should be the other way round. But if the pipeline is approved tweetle dumb would lose his fancy suite job. So there is now way this jerk will approve it.

 

[snopro]

So its a twinning of an existant 60 yr old pipeline with ZERO leaks is how I understand it? Yeah lets send it by truck and train because we all know that that's way more safer. The world is fawked because we let this happen. Round up the protestors and throw them in jail.

 

[TDR]

I usually stay out of this stuff but I can’t stand the crap going on. People need to get educated on this subject. The Americans and Saudis must be laughing their a—es off at us. There are no 2 countries that want to see what’s going on here more than they do. They want the east west pipelines to fail. It keeps Saudi crude flowing, keeps US refineries full of cheap crude and keeps the price of our oil at rock bottom. Don’t be surprised if Keystone happens under Trump. They will then lock up that oil cheap. We are blessed in this country to have a huge resource like Alberta’s oil sands. It provides employment and spin offs that impact every province in this country. Is it the most environmentally friendly? Nope. Have oil sands producers made strides to improve their footprint on the environment? Yep. At the end of the day our emissions are tiny compared to the rest of the world but we keep falling for all these world initiatives that hurt our economy and therefore the people of this country. We must protect the environment no doubt but it’s all relative. Look at the carbon tax in Alberta. Interesting the government dumped all those funds into general revenue. Why didn’t they use it to fund new technology to improve industrial performance? All it turned into is a sales tax without calling it that because that would be unpopular. The pipeline in question has been flowing oil without incident for many years. I bet it is monitored extensively to insure it does not leak given its location. It is way safer than oil moving by truck or rail. What would we all think of a train derailment in the mountains on the way to the coast? Or in some small town in BC like what happened in Quebec? That would be a real disaster. I am blessed to be able to spend a healthy portion of my winter sledding with my family in BC and spend most of the summer at a lake lot there too. I for one am not going to take it out on my fellow Canadians just because we are being led by a band of idiots. We have to stop living up to our nice guy reputation and stand up to politicians for what we want. Remember that next time an election comes around. Sorry rant over.

 

[luvz da mud]

Last year i spent Canada day in koocanusa and it was the bc locals next to us that left the mess. Lots of slobs everywhere. Can't always judge by plate.

Pemberton Music Festival. Every person there must of been from Alberta.

 

[X-it]

Christy Clark was the only one with any balls to get anything done in this province, to bad Alison Redford did not meet her conditions, if she had the pipeline would have been built years ago. Redford later was given a cushy job as consensus builder????. How she avoided jail is beyond me. Speaking of jail time, how the hell is Trudeau still walking around a free man.

 

[Lem Lamb]

I'm going to BC since the play ground of all will be all for us.

Funny thing is that us folks from Alberto get to play out there for next to nothing.

At least for us that is.

Lem

 

[S.W.A.T.]

No one goes to Alberta for the scenery

 

[lilduke]

No one goes to Alberta for the scenery

LMAO!! Only a few million....

 

[S.W.A.T.]

LMAO!! Only a few million....

https://www.visitors-info.com/cache...e-Louise_0293e068e37e3b23098b9f847a4516ce.jpg

Container people don't count

 

[lilduke]

Container people don't count

You mean the people that own BC