Living in St. John's, NL, all this protesting coming out of Vancouver seems a bit coy.  From this eastern
perspective it's easy to wonder how its is that jobs can matter so little to them (Vancouverites) but
constitute almost everything to us.  Are people this spoiled, one asks oneself ,that it does not matter
an iota that there is work and worth-while lives for fellow Canadians a little east of them?
I'm not saying pipelines or oil are glorious solutions (WE know better than that) but it helps not to
be deluded about issues of common energy demands for the average Canadian.  We can keep being 
hypocrites about how far we would all go in terms of changing our lives , but let's do a little
sweeping  in front of our own life styles before we speak so quickly and so negatively.