Liberals, Greens failure to co-operate lets NDP pass bad laws
The whole sad spectacle seems to have proven only one point: The Liberals and Greens can’t co-operate even on things they agree upon.
Liberals, Greens failure to co-operate lets NDP pass bad laws
The whole sad spectacle seems to have proven only one point: The Liberals and Greens can’t co-operate even on things they agree upon.
Yes, we are the envy of the Free World right now,with an NDP government and no Opposition.
And the stupid bastards intend to shut down Site “C”,with their typical communist shortsightedness. We may not need the power right NOW, but in ten years may very well be crying for more clean electricity,especially if, as the Greens believe,we will all be driving automated electric cars.
The NDP collectively couldn’t run a Mac’s or 7-11 franchise, but voters are dumb enough to believe they have some sort of magic solution to all the problems they perceive.
On the bright side,our carbon footy-print will sure as hell decrease,as industry shuts down and runs away.
While we all complain about the disastrous train wreck that is approaching our way of life under the combine governance of the Federal Government of Canada, and the Provincial governments of Quebec, Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia can we run a little survey as too who ran the most successful period in Canadian history. Personally I’d have to vote for the Robarts, Davis Conservative governments of Ontario and I believe that in a few more years the Harper government notwithstanding its shortcomings will eventually be recognized fot the force it was.
Any survey about Canadian PMs is doomed. As the CBC tells us, Canada only had one PM, ever, and it was Trudeau, because CHARTER.
B. C.’s biggest problem is that it’s really 2 provinces: Lotusland (i. e., the greater Vancouver region plus Victoria) and the rest. Unfortunately, Lotusland has the majority of the population and, consequently, the majority of the ridings. Its interests and only its interests prevail in the legislature.
I inherited my father’s house in B. C. and, every time I’m there, I sense a frustration with the political system as it is. The Peace country may as well not exist as far as Victoria’s concerned.
My generation is old enough to remember when the Dippers under Dave Barrett were elected and then proceeded to wreck B. C. They didn’t stay in office for very long.
The next generation of B. C. voters went to the polls about 20 years later and got the same thing. They, obviously, weren’t paying attention to what happened during the early to mid-1970s. Sure enough, they got fed up and the NDP was sent packing after a while.
The current generation of voters has repeated the process and, sadly, it’ll have to learn its painful lesson about the NDP. Somehow, I suspect that the next bunch will continue the process.
On the other hand, maybe it’s the same bunch of socialists (and their descendants and new recruits) that keep hoping that each new NDP government will finally get it right with regards to socialism.
Davis wasn’t a conservative, he was an aa$hole, I know that from personal experience!!!
That silly article presupposed that the Greens and Liberals are in opposition to the NDP. No, The greens and NDP are both part of the Watermelon Alliance. The Climate Imam could give a shit about good government. He wants his green agenda and the NDP, many of whom are deeper green than his flaky followers, are giving it to him as quid pro quo. Site C is his prize. If it is cancelled BC loses at least 5.2 Billion dollars (sunk costs and deactivation) plus the added costs of increased inefficient future baseload to allow for “green” unreliables. If Site C goes ahead, the project will cost another 5-7 Billion dollars but will preclude the need for any ridiculous unreliables for the foreseeable future. It will also significantly boost Canada’s emission free electricity production currently at 81% (63% Hydro, 17% Nuclear and, wait for it, …………………………………………….1% unreliables, leaving 19% Coal and NG ). Ironic that a Climate Imam supposedly acting on behalf of the planet’s well being by reducing demonic carbon dioxide emissions wants to kill the best way of preventing necessarily future NG baseload-supporting unreliable infrastructure.
As a former small business owner, my neighbor( former bereaucrat and big ndp supporter) often argue about politics. He equates his experience running a night school program with owning a small businesses. When I ask him if he had to generate a profit or meet a payroll or make sure all the required staff showed up in the morning ,etc, he changes the subject. When I tell him owning a small business is a 24/7/365 job he tells me how he had to drive all day in order to attend a meeting in the evening MAYBE 1/2 dozen times a year. He also know that all business owners are rich and that when they raise business taxes the costs aren’t passed on to the customer. Oh, and that profit is bad.
Once again the crooks who can’t shoot straight or even Lie effectively any longer seem to be running the chicken ranch.
Fred: Sign up for his night school courses……. then don’t pay him.
Right you are, B A. Grew up in small-town eastern BC, dependent on resources. Even then, the comment I heard from the adults was that “Canada ends at the Rockies; BC ends at Hope.”. The men of our community (war vets to a man) were expressing their frustration at knowing our community was contributing (as it had, mightily, during WW II) to the economy of both the province and the country but was getting essentially nothing back in services. Once Social Credit got it, we moved the provincial boundary to Kelowna but nothing much changed: the hinterlands continued to be reviled and mocked by the cool people on the “Left Coast” even as they plundered the interior to pay for their follies.
Remember the 1972 election – we were still residents there. The big issue was that the SoCreds were perceived (probably fairly rightly) as seriously corrupt, and Dave Barrett ran a moderate campaign (think Rachel Notley in Alberta). Result was that the NDP essentially shut down all minerals exploration in B C (still seemed to keep the petroleum exploration going in the NE part of the problem); spouse got offer elsewhere, and we left. Would have stayed if we could as love our native province, but love doesn’t pay the bills.
Dave Barrett ran a moderate campaign (think Rachel Notley in Alberta)
Not from what I saw. My parents and I were on vacation in Lotusland in August of 1972. I remember seeing posters either in Vancouver or on the Island which were rather hostile. The caption for one of them was “Dictatorship ended in 1945”, with the “C” replaced by a swastika. Obviously, someone likened Premier Bennett to Adolph.
The election of “fat little Dave” (as he referred to himself in public) didn’t go over well in the Peace region. Lotuslanders sure didn’t mind the Bennett Dam being there nor did they object to the gas pipeline that actually had its origin near Fort Nelson. Beyond that, they didn’t give a rat’s proverbial about the area.
We’ve discussed western separation on this site from time to time. While I was growing up, someone suggested something similar for NE B. C. every few years, since it has more in common with Alberta than Vancouver.
Edmonton’s closer, for one thing. (Less than 8 hours by road from Fort St. John to Edmonton, but about twice as long to Vancouver.) There’s also the climate, geography, and industry as well as the general attitude and way of thinking.
Unfortunately, each time it was brought up, people talked about it for a while but ended up doing nothing.
There are only 2 things are infinite; the universe and human stupidity. No matter how many are starved to death in BC’s Great Leap Forward, there will always be another NDP government in BC. This is why, I stopped charitable giving. The takers don’t do it. Socialists don’t do it. So why should I.
Davis was an a$$hole you say NMEooo?
That might be true but you outta hear what they say about you and
we know it all to be true from our personal experiences in reading your garbage.
BCer
There will be loopholes large enough to drive a whole union shop thru it.
The ENDP never fails to be highly critical in opposition with all kinds of perfect world solutions. In power though, they seem to collectively suffer from the vapours, forgetting most of what they had previously promised.