Have you been dying to tell someone who cares what you really think about probable changes to your Old Age Security?
Wild salmon and aquaculture along our coast? Ocean stewardship and shark finning? Oil tankers and pipelines? New halibut quotas? Politicians in general?
Fin Donnelly, MP for New Westminster, Coquitlam and Port Moody since 2009 and current federal NDP critic for fisheries and oceans, is coming to the Island this Saturday to matters of interest to voters in our area.
Fin introduced legislation to ban tanker traffic along BC's sensitive northern coast and to transition all fish farms to closed containment. Prior to being elected, Fin played a key role in calling for and securing the Cohen Inquiry into the collapse of the Fraser Sockeye fishery.
He served on Coquitlam council for seven years, was the executive director of the Rivershed Society of B.C. for 13 years and twice swam the Fraser River (1,400 km) to promote sustainable living.
Donnelly will be at a Courtenay potluck supper and conversation from 6 to 9 p.m. at the lower Native Sons Hall.
For details, contact www.findonnelly.ca or Fin.Donnelly@parl.gc.ca.
— NDP