Chris Gibson Quotes
NED is talking about through-putting this energy out to the vicinity of Boston then taking a northern route up to Nova Scotia and then exporting it, so they're not talking about giving us any local benefits at all.
Gibson, Chris. "Statement on the Northeast Energy Direct Pipeline." Representative Chris Gibson, U.S. House of Representatives, 2015.
This quotation shows 1) that the American Colonists saw their country to be as including Canada. See Thomas Jefferson for more on that point: {636940}. 2) That the Continental Congress misread the situation in Quebec assuming that the cultural values of New England were those of Quebec. Given the strong French tradition in Quebec, and the dependence on trapping and trading, Quebec was quite different. Also, England had acted to secure Quebec militarily. See {636939}.
Christopher Patrick Gibson is an American politician, former officer in the United States Army and member of the Republican Party who served as the U.S. Representative for New York's 20th congressional district from 2011 to 2013 and for New York's 19th congressional district from 2013 to 2017.