It would seem that resource-rich British Columbians are only as rich as government wants them to be. And that doesn't seem to be very rich at all. Especially in the case of the recently announced halibut allocation and the recent burgeoning export of raw logs.

The Department of Fisheries and Oceans' announcement of halibut allocation will mean the sport fishery for that species could end in the first week of August. This isn't because there aren't enough halibut, it's because the halibut allocation by DFO directly contravenes every Canadian's right to a common property resource. How many jobs this announcement will affect is hard to determine, but Robert Alcock, president of the Sport Fishing Institute of British Columbia, says it will wreak havoc on the sport-fishing industry.

The raw log export situation is trickier to deal with. But one common objection is that while we're shipping all these raw logs to China and elsewhere, we are losing processing jobs in British Columbia. So who's it a boon for?

Seems like we have a kind of Occupy Halibut and Occupy Raw Logs situation being created, where the fortunate few reap great rewards at the expense of a vast majority who are forced simply to stand by and watch it happen.