Premier Campbell’s Climate Change Inaction

While speaking at a governors’ and premiers’ panel at the Climate Conference in Copenhagen yesterday, Gordon Campbell failed to explain the BC Liberals’ controversial environmental record. The controversial part? Consider the following aspects of the Campbell “green agenda”: Campbell’s government has promoted the Gateway-Port Mann twinning project; a project that encourages more suburban sprawl and [...]

Premier Campbell; No Increase to BC’s Minimum Wage

Premier Campbell was on CKNW this morning with Bill Good. During that segment Campbell reiterated his belief that the minimum wage in BC does not need to be increased. This was in response to the fact that the minimum wage in Quebec is being increased by fifty cents, the third increase in three years for [...]

BC Liberals Cut Skills Development Employment Benefits Program

At a time when you might think that the BC Liberals would be investing heavily in developing the skills of BC’s workforce, they have instead decided to cut skills training; the Skills Development Employment Benefits program was told to rein in spending on all retraining programs and to cap all tuition funding effective immediately. “The [...]

The BC Liberal Index, Fall 2009

 B.C. LIBERAL INDEX Fall 2009 With apologies to HARPER’S Amount consumers will have to fork over for the HST: $1.9 billion Tourism jobs that will be lost due to the HST: 10,000 Restaurant industry jobs that will be lost due to the HST: 12,000 Number of HST-free Christmases left: 1, unless we stop the HST [...]

More on private power and the Burrard Thermal lies

More from our friend, Rafe Mair, on the private power producers scandal: Burrard Thermal continues to be Campbell’s big and specious argument in favour of private power. The government and the private power people would have you believe that it’s a huge contributor to greenhouse gases whereas it only operates a few days a year [...]

More from Rafe Mair on IPPs

This posting is another interesting read from Rafe Mair’s mailing list. The author of this piece is Doug McArthur, Professor and Distinguished Fellow in Public Policy in the Graduate Program in Public Policy at Simon Fraser University.  Prior to that he was Senior Fellow and Special Assistant to the President at the University of British Columbia. [...]

You Don’t Have to Sell BC Hydro to Give it Away

The following letter came through Rafe Mair from Dr Marvin Schaffer:  I recently told a right wing friend of mine that this is the worst government British Columbia has had in a very long time. I said that not because of its political orientation and values that time and again favour the interests of the wealthy [...]

Margaret MacDiarmid’s latest pronouncement on education funding

In her latest public display of ignorance of how local school boards actually function, the Minister of Education, Dr MacDiarmid, said that school boards “will use cash reserves,, local restricted capital, and operating surplus funding to make this work a priority.” “This work” she refers to is the retrofits required to trim energy conservation in [...]

Latest Campbell cuts

In response to the latest cuts that the Campbell Liberals are inflicting on BC, beleaguered literary organizations are forming the Coalition for the Defence of Writing and Publishing in British Columbia. This comes one day after the Arts & Culture branch of the Ministry of Tourism, Culture & the Arts (Hon. Kevin Krueger) simultaneously removed all funding from [...]

Campbell government; from crisis to crisis

You really have to wonder what is going on with the Gordon Campbell Liberals. The Campbell government was previously renowned for their incredible ability to control the politic agenda in BC, now they appear to be reeling from crisis to crisis with nobody in control. Right after the May election the news breaks that the Campbell [...]

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