"British Columbia's coast does not just belong to British Columbia,” BC Premier Christy Clark said last week.

“It belongs to Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Quebec, Ontario and the Atlantic provinces and it's essential that our ports and our infrastructure all across the west are functioning as well as they possibly can, because that's what allows trade to flow outside our country and that's what puts people to work," Clark said.

But, it is apparent that Premier Clark meant America's Big Oil interests which dominates the Alberta Tar Sands, and not the overwhelming majority of Canadians who seek the environmental protection of Canada's boreal forests.