The Legislature Raids

Unfortunately, environmental issues are on the Liberal Agenda, if only to take the wind out of the NDP's sails. And its a disaster of epic perportions, an irresponsible waste of taxpayers money. Shamefull, really.

They have imposed secondary sewage treatment on Victoria in absense of a cost benefit analysi and enviromental analysis.

The cost is expected to surpass 1 Billion Dollars and cause most greenhouse gases and polution than it will cure, all the while diverting scarce taxpayer resources away from needed projects and infrastructures.

The liberals AND THE# NDP have to be stopped. The two are corrupt of incompetant. We need real govt. We need something other than these ying yangs.
 

Interesting comments on Laila Yuiles website and also this link on Laila's site - check it out.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:i7I6crcxwO8J:www.vancouversun.com/sports/Christy%2BClark%2Bguilty%2Bpleasure%2BMANswers/3345698/story.html+christy+clark+%2B+manswers&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca&source=www.google.ca

Indicative of the standards now employed by the BC Liberal party leader - whoa, I think someone just "hexed themselves". Intelligent, informed, articulate and very smart - I think not !

Thanks
 

Thank-you, B.C. Mary for bringing the threads of truthful observation to the table every day this past while.
Every day forward I will remember what has been taken from the people of B.C. and I will do something small or large to witness for truth in this province.
If those in North Africa can stand up for justice at such great cost to themselves and their families, I know I can surely do something.
 

To Anonymous 3:42,

Bravo !!! And thank you.
 

Well, the one thing Campbell can count on. Christy Clark will never allow any further investigation of, the corrupt sale of the BCR. Keep hammering Mary. We want to make sure Christy Clark knows, she will never win the confidence of the BC people.

That PIN vote really stinks. Elections BC, had the RCMP investigate seven people who, had duplicate signatures, on the HST petitions. There were also letters sent out by Craig James, threatening people with a $10,000 fines. Now, are these 6,000 illegal PIN votes, that were thrown out, going to be investigated? Are they going to be getting letters to say, they could be facing $10,000 fines, including the cat. We don't have a clue, how many more votes were illegal. We don't even know for sure who has really won. Or will this, also fall into, the two tiered justice system? The one system for corrupt politicians and the other tier, justice for the citizens?

While I'm at it, the media really reeks, as usual.
 

RE PRP's "mandate from the people" comment:

You'll hear them extol both the virtues of the parliamentary system and also the now-fixed election date; Christy says she'll hold one before that, but only after a by-election for her and the HST referendum (which by saying that she's indicating she's not going to try and stop it).

But does she want an election-weary electorate with a third vote before Christmas? Campaigning has started now anyway, doesn't matter when it's called; her regime is anything but stable for the moment.

Worth noting that it was the Point Grey federal riding where Kim Campbell ran, and already has an anti-Campbell element; are they pro-Christy around Kerrisdale and Dunbar and Arbutus Ridge and SW Marine? The UEL? Be hell of a something to lose what's supposed to be a safe-seat in a by-election. Probably not....might depend a lot on who the Tories ran against here there, huh? I'd laugh, if that weren't so dark rather than funny. Couple of persuasive phone calls, y'never know who might wind up as leader of the BC Tories. And, if not already having a seat (ahem), then needing one, too.

My main point about her getting a mandate, rather than from one rich-folks' riding, emblematic of who the party serves but also a sure thing; she might not win in her home turf in Coquitlam-Westwood given the NDP history there, and well it's just not Kerrisdale.

Is Vancouver-Point Grey technically vacant? Campbell hasn't stepped down as an MLA - is he doing that when he steps down as Premier? Presumably, but with an open seat available, it behooves Christy to call the by-election on it immediately.

This was in fact constitutional practice in the old days in BC and federally also; by-elections were held to affirm cabinet posts, or to bring those just appointed/selected to the House, as in this case; usually it meant there was a by-election right after the general election, once the cabinet was announced. If Campbell's seat is empty when she assumes power, the pressure on her to take the seat legitimately, instead of just pose next to it saying "see, I'll win this to, once I bother to make it mine...nice upholstery, huh?".

The grandiose power she now holds, from a membership of 90,000-odd, only 60k-odd of whom took part, is out of all proportion to the exclusive and manipulated nature of that party. Premier-designates who have no mandate does happen every so often at party leadership-change times historically, not the same as opposition-leader changes at all; usually they have the decency to run for the first available seat as soon as possible. But "decency" is something we've pretty much come to discount from BC's political-professional class....this is one of those situations where the L-G should have independent power to enable/enact various constitutional provisions (if there's to be any point to that office at all).

I still wanna know the full scale of the pet store you could probably open from the stock of new Liberal members; must be some dogs and horses, maybe more than one cat and who knows a python or lizard or two, even some bunnies. And when you read by their account whole offices / companies were signed up, you have to wonder about corporate influence over their employees' political choices/profiles....

'tis an increasingly strange age we live in....
 

The most important thing about the Post editorial, other than it demonstrates a clear fracture on the right in relation to business/government misconduct in BC (as we've heard nothing like that from, say, the Fraser Institute or other in-BC voices of the right), is who wrote it. Bruce Hutchinson is old-guard BC, the long time chief sage of the Vancouver Sun and nationally-respected.

Certainly quite a different tone than that Mark Hume fellow, no? If hutchinson is on-side about the public inquiry, and it certainly sounds like he is, there is a voice on the national stage talking some sanity about all this, instead of pretending that it's not even news, or now over and done with if it ever was.

Makes me wonder who else of the old guard in BC is gonna speak up about this? The establishment isn't just party/coalition loyalists/zombies, no, not at all.

Think I'll send him (Hutchinson) a thank-you note. Makes me wonder what else he might say as the carnival of BC politics opens up wide for the next few months (at least that long).