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KENDALL: I'm very happy to be here with my fellow candidates to give voters the opportunity to see us and answer questions. I'm also glad to be standing before you as your new democratic candidate. I've been attending events and knocking on doors in barriere and up the North Thompson valley for the past 18 months, and I was here in Barriere last weekend at the celebration of rural living. And as I campaign it's been a pleasure to meet so many people from so many walks of live. I've met some people who are doing quite well, and I thank them for sharing their insights with me. But I've also met some people who aren't doing very well after 12 years of the Liberals growing the economy. I've met with parents who struggle to put food on the table and who can't afford to go to work because they can't afford childcare. I've met people who are out of work who don't have the skills to go to jobs, when there are jobs for people who have skills. I've met students graduating from university with crippling student debt. And in the North Thompson, I've met people who used to work in forestry, and who have the pleasure of seeing raw logs trucked down the highway for other destinations--perhaps even overseas. So I'm running in this election because I think British Columbians deserve change for the better, not more of the same. For 8 of the last 9 years, BC has had the highest child poverty rate in Canada. Our families plan with provide each family with a child under 18 with $829 so parents can make sure that their kids have the best start possible. ...

(Begin at 22:40)

SMITH: "I'd like to ask Kathy a question, and the whole panel a question. I keep pretty close track of what's going on in the forest industry around here, and I would like to know, Kathy, specifically what logs are being exported out of this valley. If you can answer that question, I would like to know. Because I don't think there are any logs in this valley being exported overseas. And you're making a false statement there. But that's not the question. My question is, what is your party doing or will do on tenure reform? That's a topic that has been discussed, and I want to know where you stand."

[MODERATOR]

SMITH: The question is, what logs are being exported from this valley?

[MODERATOR]

SMITH: Export logs.

[MODERATOR]

KENDALL: Okay, well I see them going down the highway on a truck."

SMITH: Where are they being exported? You said – 

[MODERATOR]

KENDALL: That's my answer.


Emile Scheffel