Green party Leader Elizabeth May says a Conservative government's cost-cutting decision to shut down a Vancouver-area coast guard station in 2013 was spiteful. Yesterday, the Tories announced they would position a coast guard pollution-response vessel in the Vancouver harbour and turn the area's HMCS Discovery base into a major maritime operations centre. But May says a government can't claim to be investing in coast guard stations and at the same time shut them down. (May also reiterated her opposition to the Trans Mountain pipeline project, which would triple the amount of diluted bitumen transported from Alberta's oilsands to B-C's Lower Mainland.)

Date: 2015-10-06
Placeline: VANCOUVER.
Source: The Canadian Press
Length: 18 seconds

Transcript Prediction: << turns out that shutting down the Coast Guard stations is not saving any money the docks that were there are being stored at season at a cost that's almost the same as running the stations and the land on which coast guard stations exist is bound in perpetuity for one purpose only search and rescue >>

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