Finally the by-elections have been called, now what.
The people have 28 days to send a message to the B.C. Liberal government and in my mind the choice is simple. A vote for Christy Clark, her team , Adrian Dix and the BCNDP is a vote for more of the same high tax and spend governments of the past 20 years or a vote for refreshing change.
John Cummins , John Martin and Christine Clarke of the B.C. Conservatives is just that.Honest open government that is accountable to the people. A vote for the B.C. Conservatives is like a vote for your wallet.
Hang on to your hard-earned money and on April 19th vote for positive change!
Send a message to Clark and Dix : tell them we are not going to take it anymore!
The BC Conservatives have climbed into a dead heat with the BC Liberals while the approval rating of Premier Christy Clark has dropped to an unheard of low of 26%. ( How do you say Gordon Campbell anyone?)
This writer,along with the residents of Port Moody and Chilliwack would rather we catch a glimpse of a poll that matters.. That would one would occur if the Premier would take time out of her busy agenda filming videos for Hockeyville, and call the by-elections that folks have been waiting for.
It’s time Premier Clark,put families first and call the by-elections.There are enough families in these two ridings that want to have representation in the legislature.
Please get on with the job that you were unelected to,Call the By-elections now!
Jack Layton must be looking down proud tonight as dipper comrade Craig Scott soundly trounced fellow socialist in the Brawl for it all in Toronto Danforth.
It was an exciting day what with Olivia Chow getting booted out of a voting station and Bob Rae aka Marijuana Bob finally admitting what the rest of us know:” All I am is the leader of a third party!
I suspect the real big winner tonight will be Thomas Mulcair as he prepares to become Dipper in charge this weekend.
First on his agenda: Devour the Liberal Party of Canada.
Big Loser: Marijuana Bob; he just made a bad day worse and conceded on behalf of his candidate.
What has Christy Clark accomplished? More or less nothing.
Almost a year later, 1 guy is doing hard time. What about the rest ?
Over in London Ontario where they had a riot this past weekend ( Not a football game,just St.Paddy’s day) 13 knuckleheads have been arrested and countless others have been suspended from school.
So rather than refer to our Premier Christy Clark as the Iron Lady , you should ask yourself what the real Iron Lady would have done.
More than likely she would have rounded them up and sent them to some quaint outpost like the Falkland Islands.
In the news the last few weeks has been the teacher’s strike and all the procedures and wrangling in the legislature.
On the heels of that nurses and anesthesiologists are now calling for the government to hire extra workers.
There is also talk of a general strike amongst all government unionized employees.
The theory goes this is all occurring because the B.C.Liberals want the great fight with the unions and the NDP to show the public that they are the only choice to represent them after the next election.
Conventional thinking also says that Adrian Dix and the NDP will soon be forced out of their cone of silence and have to take a stand and support the unions at least until after the election.
What everybody fails to realize is that we are in this boat to begin with because the B.C. Liberal government is a very weak government and has caused the need for this plan themselves.
A strong stable government would have stopped this months ago.
The seed for this was planted during the election of 2009 when they denied they would bring in the HST only to be followed by the great sneaky reversal shortly there after.This was fumble number one.
Fumble number two was intentionally misleading the public with the deficit figure.
The third fumble was caused by new Premier Christy Clark who had the chance to clean this up when she was first sworn in but instead screwed up and the taxpayers wound up with a delayed needless referendum when the tax could have been scrapped in the house sooner.
We have now come full circle with the needless gaffes caused by this government bringing us where we are now.
So next time you here the government blaming the unions,the simple are doing what mother nature had intended: namely smelling a wounded bloodied animal and going in for the kill!
It seems that not a day goes by without Premier Christy Clark and her campaign team having allegations pointed at then in a negative way.
First we found out about the Atwal affair after it was revealed that the gangster in question was invited to sit in the house and listen to the budget presentation.
Today,Premier Christy Clark’s name came up in a piece in the Vancouver Province that alleges heavy-handed campaigning by a sizable donor to her campaign.
Kinda makes me think , as my mother as often said, ” Where there is smoke there might be fire”.
What do you think?
What will the next breaking story be about? Fundraising in a beer case?
Question to either of you: What is more substantial $20 million or $40 million?
Think back to 2008 when the economy started to deteriorate and governments around the world started to put plans in place to survive economic recessions.
Think a little further ahead to May of 2009 when the provincial election was on and then Premier Gordon Campbell tried to make you believe in light of the turmoil his party was the only one to lead you through tough economic times.
He told you that his government managed to hold the deficit to 495 million and that alone should be enough to garner your support.
Remember the feeling you had as you thought through all of this and wondered to yourself ” I am not an economic manager, I am just a regular person sitting at home who knew they economy was worse than they said, why didn’t the B.C.Liberals know this and be more on top of it than they were?”
I mean after all,they are the ones with the Finance department who is paid to research these kind of things,not you or me.
Remember you also asked yourself ” Why on earth did I vote for these people?”
I throw this out there because as I read Vaughn Palmer’s excellent column in the Vancouver Sun today, I was reminded of the Liberals economic mismanagement.
In particular a couple of quotes stood out: in 2011 Minister Pat Bell said that 20 million dollars was a substantial sum of money for the naming rights to BC Place.Then one year later the same Minister said 40 million was not good value for the taxpayers for the same rights.
Without discussing all the cost overruns and deficits in the BC Place project,one thing is abundantly clear: if a Minister in the BC Liberal Government thinks $20 million is substantial and $40 million is not, how can they lay claim to being good economic managers for the province?
Laurie Throness: I learned everything I know about how to run elections from Premier Christy Clark!
As hard as it it to believe B.C. Liberal Laurie Throness said in an interview in the Chilliwack Times that having election signs up before the by-election is called is no big deal.
Of course that is against the rules and is therefore cheating.
So to Mr. Throness cheating is no big deal.
In another act of ,well stupidity,members of his campaign team went to city hall today to pay the $500 permit to place signs during an election. They were of course refused because there is no election on.
A good politician knows the rules and also surrounds himself with people that know them as well.
These cheaters sound like rank amateurs? Do they not take the potential by-election seriously enough to at least read the rules?
Can you imagine them as handlers of the public trust?
Are you as dumbfounded as I am that Mr.Throness thinks cheating is no big deal?
Are you as blown away as I am that he openly states that on the public record?
