Even after the completion of this pipeline the tanker traffic out of Vancouver harbor will be tiny compared to the number of tankers plying the St. Lawrence, Thames, Mississippi or Rhine estuaries. Or to the number traversing the narrow channels of the Great Barrier reef or the prolific fishing grounds and island infested waters of the South China sea. Vancouver prides itself as being an important port city, indeed it would not possess either its current size nor grandeur were it not for this primal function. Vancouver needs to live up to, not shirk it's critical role.