i guess the ndp, lead by its fearless leader, did not pay attention to how the political race developed south of the boarder. the eventual winner of the presidential race overcame two campaigns of bashing by the opposition to win the presidency. in each he did start behind in the polls, yet he stuck to his guns, promoted who he was instead of destroyed or attempting to destroy the image/reputation of the opposition. to add to this, his opposition did just that…attempted at destroying his image…and lost. the ndp either didn’t pay attention or just simply did not learn. their only method throughout the campaign was to try and discredit the liberals. my take…don’t worry as the liberals have done it enough by themselves…trying to do more looks like it back-fired. so…perhaps it would have helped if at least half of the resources would have been wasted on promoting what the ndp stood for…what they planned to do…and how they plan to make bc better…somewhat similar to what the liberals choose to do. not to mention…it doesn’t help when the leader of the party trying to take over is seen as a potential premier that can’t do ‘no worst’ than the current one…overall, i don’t think this election was won by the liberals…but lost by the ndp due to a some quite foolish choice in how to promote themselves…
another four…
keep bc ‘strong’…
overall i have to get used to paying higher tuition fees, eventually get some convicts as neighbors, pay more and more for gasoline to fund the ‘neutral’ carbon tax, have to put up with building from scratch instead of expanding the current structure (i really wonder who will building the new bridge…and what their connection is to our drunken premier), and so on. quite useless to continue, given that by popular vote the liberals did get 46% of the total votes…which translated into 49 seats in the government. so, why should they care? well, the ones who stand to suffer either can’t vote or won’t vote given they gave up hope…yup, i am talking about the ones who work for the minimum wage (keep in mind we have the lowest minimum wage in the country)…so, keep be ‘strong’…question is from who’s perspective?
just around the corner
may 12th is approaching quite fast. it’s election day in bc…for the right to govern this tourism province into the olympics (or better yet…during the olympics). as russell peters put it last night at the juno’s (yes i watched 15 minutes of them…and essentially only saw the introduction…which was enough i’d say…)…the winter olympics were awarded to the only canadian city that doesn’t have a winter…
anyhow…looking on the information webpage about the elections, i’m a bit stunned as to the number of political parties registered in bc. we even have a sex party, a work less party…and by now you all are aware of the marijuana party. i wonder what their mandates are…and probably i’m a bit to lazy to look into it…simply because i’m certain they won’t get that many votes…so might as well waste my time reading the mandates 0f the parties that are expeced to battle it out for the right to ‘lead’ us through the olympics.
so, the way i see things for the last 9 years since the liberals have been in power…and yes this is subjective…first shock i had with them was the ‘unfreezing’ of the tuition fees around 2002…this after it was promised the tuition freeze will last. so over the following 3 years…my tuitition essentially doubled…now, without going into how that got paid…i’ll simply say…thanks campbie!
then, there were healthcare cuts…funding cuts to the education system….school closures…and essentially increase in class sizes in highschool/elementary…so yes…thanks campbie! oh and let’s not forget the carbon tax…yes it’s ‘neutral’…but looking at it it’s hard to see how it doesn’t actually benefit the big corporations more than it benefits the small ‘people’…like the common folks. argue all you’d like…but the tax cuts to the big corporations…are essentially based and can be done because the larger share of the incoming dollars are based on taxation of the common folks. yes, you’re paying for it out of your gas purchase (last i recall it’s about 5.7cents/liter this year…to increase in the following years).
some of the latest…well let’s see the plan to make a prison in the middle of burnaby? in close proximity to not only a high school, but a education institute, numerous businesses, residential areas…and oh yeah…close to public transport. correcting myself, they only looked at 58 sites not 80 as i stated in a previous post, but how come out of 58 sites…one chooses the middle of a city to place a prison? the reasons…it will be easy to transport the prisoners to and from courts by public transport…thus cutting emissions….what about public safety? so yes…thanks campbie for thinking of the public on this one…
another mindblower…is the decision to replace the portmann bridge - the highway 1 bridge connecting surrey to coquitlam…essentially…in order to expand the bridge they want to build a new one…why not just add a few lanes to the already exisiting one…and instead of wasting all that money…put them to better use…like fixing pattulo…which had a few fires as of late.
a tuition increase for university is about to pop up any time now…however…voting on it will probably not occur until after the elections…so…if you’re planning to go to school in this ‘economic crisis’ you’re about to pay more starting next fall….thanks campbie!
on that note…remember the proposal from translink on how to increase their profit margin? well…the voting on that probably won’t happen until after the elections…
now, i’m sure there’s more things that can be mentioned…i just simply won’t waste my time anymore…given the politics over the last decade in the province have been on how to increase profit for the big corporations at the loss of the common folks…anybody know an obama like candidate for these elections?
edit: so at the 6pm news…here’s some more developments…currently british columbia has the second to last minimu wage ($8/hour). it’s been frozen at that since 2001…yup…that’s right 9 years…ever since the liberals came into power…so thanks again campbie! on top of that…the mandate for the new campaign…does not include an increase to minimum wage…better yet…the current premier doesn’t even wanna hear about it. and since we’re on the subject…let’s add another stat that was given on the news…at this point british columbia has the highest teenage poverty (a stagerring 16%)…if i recall correctly, the canadian average stated was around 7%…so thanks again campbie!…thanks for looking after the common folks…
let’s not forget…the current premier…tried to use his stature as a provincial premier while on vacantion in hawaii…after he was caught driving under the influence of alcoohol…he tried to get out of it by telling the officer…’i'm the premier’…abuse of power anyone?
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