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D this this morning.
Prince George, B.C.- NDP leader Adrian Dix and New Democrat Labour Critic Harry Bains are not giving up on their call for an independent inquiry into the fatal explosion at the Babine Forest Products sawmill of January 2012.
“We met with family and injured workers last night in Burns Lake” says Dix “We presented to them a proposed terms of reference for such an inquiry.” That session lasted about four hours.
Dix says he hopes to publicly release the proposed terms of reference by the end of this week once it has been vetted by lawyers as to the scope of those terms of reference to ensure they meet “all the legal tests required.”
Dix says there is growing support throughout the province for an inquiry into the explosion and why the investigation was botched. An inquest will be held, likely this fall, but Dix says that inquest will not provide all the answers the families are seeking. “An inquest is profoundly limited in its scope” says Dix who says he has attended a number of inquests into the deaths of workers and not all the evidence is presented. “I am very much in favour of the inquest process, but it will not deliver either the answers or the analysis that a full public inquiry will bring to bear.”
There is an amendment to the Criminal Code in Canada, which reads:
"217.1 Every one who undertakes, or has the authority, to direct how another person does work or performs a task is under a legal duty to take reasonable steps to prevent bodily harm to that person, or any other person, arising from that work or task."
That amendment is referred to as the “Westray law” , a law which was developed in the wake of the 1992 Westray mine disaster in which 26 miners died when that Nova Scotia coal mine was ripped apart by a methane gas explosion. Dix says since the Westray law came into effect ( in 2003) “Nobody, not a single company has been prosecuted, or company official has been prosecuted under that law in British Columbia. We are talking about work place related deaths in the thousands, and no one has been prosecuted. What that tells us is that the system is not working to bring accountability.”
He says the powers of a public inquiry are needed to get to the truth and to see that this kind of disaster does not happen again in British Columbia..
I don't like the political help, but help is help.
http://www.change.org/en-CA/petitions/the-honourable-christy-clark-call-for-an-independent-inquiry-into-fatal-babine-forest-products-sawmill-explosion
Picked oranges and grapefruit then bowled in pm. Went to ballroom to watch a bunch of skits put on by local group. I dozed through most of it!
D this this morning.
Prince George, B.C.- NDP leader Adrian Dix and New Democrat Labour Critic Harry Bains are not giving up on their call for an independent inquiry into the fatal explosion at the Babine Forest Products sawmill of January 2012.
“We met with family and injured workers last night in Burns Lake” says Dix “We presented to them a proposed terms of reference for such an inquiry.” That session lasted about four hours.
Dix says he hopes to publicly release the proposed terms of reference by the end of this week once it has been vetted by lawyers as to the scope of those terms of reference to ensure they meet “all the legal tests required.”
Dix says there is growing support throughout the province for an inquiry into the explosion and why the investigation was botched. An inquest will be held, likely this fall, but Dix says that inquest will not provide all the answers the families are seeking. “An inquest is profoundly limited in its scope” says Dix who says he has attended a number of inquests into the deaths of workers and not all the evidence is presented. “I am very much in favour of the inquest process, but it will not deliver either the answers or the analysis that a full public inquiry will bring to bear.”
There is an amendment to the Criminal Code in Canada, which reads:
"217.1 Every one who undertakes, or has the authority, to direct how another person does work or performs a task is under a legal duty to take reasonable steps to prevent bodily harm to that person, or any other person, arising from that work or task."
That amendment is referred to as the “Westray law” , a law which was developed in the wake of the 1992 Westray mine disaster in which 26 miners died when that Nova Scotia coal mine was ripped apart by a methane gas explosion. Dix says since the Westray law came into effect ( in 2003) “Nobody, not a single company has been prosecuted, or company official has been prosecuted under that law in British Columbia. We are talking about work place related deaths in the thousands, and no one has been prosecuted. What that tells us is that the system is not working to bring accountability.”
He says the powers of a public inquiry are needed to get to the truth and to see that this kind of disaster does not happen again in British Columbia..
I don't like the political help, but help is help.
http://www.change.org/en-CA/petitions/the-honourable-christy-clark-call-for-an-independent-inquiry-into-fatal-babine-forest-products-sawmill-explosion
Picked oranges and grapefruit then bowled in pm. Went to ballroom to watch a bunch of skits put on by local group. I dozed through most of it!
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