Five groups from across the Province want a public inquiry into the 2012 Lakeland and Babine Forest mill explosions.
The United Steelworkers, the BC Federation of Labour, the First Nations Summit, the Union of BC Indian Chiefs and the BC Assembly of First Nations want to hold those accountable for the death of 4 employees.
NDP Labor Critic Shane Simpson believes all the workers deserved better.
“When people go to work every day, in workplaces around the Province, our commitment and our obligation as a society has to be to do everything we can to make sure that people get to go home to their families at the end of their work day,” he says.
NDP Labor Critic Shane Simpson feels there are still things that need to be addressed.
“There are unanswered questions there for the families particularly, and the workers, about what really occurred. ‘Was it preventable?’ ‘Should it not have happened?’ I guess that those are questions that will just remain unanswered at least for the time being.”
The Coroner’s inquest in July 2015 was designed to find recommendations to avoid similar incidents from occurring.
An inquiry is designed to appoint legal blame.
The call comes on January 20th, exactly four years after the Babine Forest Products mill explosion that injured 20 and killed both Carl Charlie and Robert Luggi.
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