Gateay Project not an environmental debate?

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At a press conference last friday Federal International Trade Minister David Emerson said regarding the Gateway Project:

"But don’t disguise that debate as an environmental debate,.."

This is probably the most bizarre statement from Emerson.  The gateway project will include:

- an increase of container ships which each contribute more than pollution than 2,000 diesel trucks (including particulate matter which has NO safe level).
- the loss of a wildlife management area three times the size of Stanley park
permanent damage to the hydrology of Burn's Bog
- the loss of 1,000 acres of farmland
- an increase of 31% in on-road green house gas emissions
- the serious health concerns associated with increased traffic

And it is not an environmental debate?????

This is Orwellian double-speak at its worst.

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