The oil pipeline is an opportunity. It represents the occasion to open our markets to new economic powers such as China and Singapore and to cut down our reliance from the U.S market. The oil pipeline assures energy, jobs, GDP growth and stimulation of the economy. It is going to increase Harper’s influence throughout China and build up solid relationships with emergent economic powers. The pipeline is an occasion to look at the future and is an excellent chance to sell at higher prices one of Alberta’s most valuable resources. Although the pipeline may represent a risk for the ecosystem and is proudly attacked by environmentalists and NGOs, everybody can and should support it. The government in fact can easily convince the aboriginal communities and the green groups to support the project. The government must consider that the project is going to encounter numerous people willing to stop it and ready to speak up and protest. This means that the project will require extra work and extra patience. How can we predict so? Well, first of all protests have already started and hundreds of members of the First Nation community blocked the center of Prince Rupert. At last because similar situations are occurring in other industrialized countries such as Italy. What is happening in Italy these days is nothing else than what is happening in Canada with the pipeline. Governments need to create new jobs because society isn’t providing enough workplaces. The government therefore interferes in the economy of the country to create new ones. They also need to increase the GDP, stimulate the economy and find new trade partners. At this point they look at sectors that need innovation as for example the railway system in Italy and the transport of oil from Alberta. The government then appoints a corporation that is close to the government to work out a project on a determined piece of land. In Canada the piece of land included Alberta and British Columbia and in Italy the piece of land is the Val di Susa in Piemonte. At this point, once the itinerary is established, the protests start. The itinerary is the spark for these protests and it doesn’t matter if the pipeline and the railway constructions produce jobs, wealth and innovate our country. They are wrong because they pass close to defined cities, villages or towns and nobody wants a train passing next to his home or a pipeline passing through his backyard. This is the real justification brought up by most of the protesters. Local communities start protesting and speaking up and a little bit later the entire country wants to stop the construction. Facebook and Twitter spread out the message and quickly enlarge the movement. The protests then reach local and national media that take different positions. Tension builds up and episodes of violence occur. The government may establish a referendum to give voice to the people and then decide to proceed or not. These are the democratic challenges that all governments encounter in order to conclude an innovative project nowadays. Although the majority must approve both national projects, we sincerely believe that both countries need these kinds of projects. They strengthen economic relations with close countries, bring revenues to the state and therefore reduce the public debt, increase the GDP, provide economic stability by demonstrating to other countries that it is still possible to invest in modern and industrialized countries such as Italy and Canada. Both projects should be brought to an end because they both provide necessary guarantees.
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