I just saw the new BC Liberal attack ad NDP leader Adrian Dix, it called him reckless and risky, I quite honestly did not know whether to laugh or cry, these are the people that broke many laws in the privatization of health services in BC and threw caution to the wind about hospital cleaning for example, not like it hasn’t been tried with disastrous results in Europe decades before. Well we know what that reckless gamble cost in money and 84 patients lives and counting, never mind the the lawsuits and class actions that disaster has exposed the taxpayers of BC to.
The privatization at any cost and union busting legacy of this government has cost BC hundreds of millions and it still is not over with the imminent sale of the BC Liquor distribution system for less money than it generates in one year not to mention the many more workers that will end up with minimum wage jobs as a result of this governments anti-union anti-living wage, anti-worker, anti-middle class agenda.
I couldn’t believe the ad with the NDP broken piggy bank, this is a government that has raised the provincial debt in one decade from 33.8 billion when the NDP left power to 53.4 billion of direct provincial debt and another 80 billion in hidden and unfunded financial commitments, P3s etc., compounding this problem is the fact that that the Auditor General of BC Mr. Doyle has accused the BC Liberals of deceptive accounting practices, so I suppose we will have to get a new government to find out how much this government has really cost the people of BC. I find the BC liberal claim that taxes will go up with the NDP laughable, the present shell game that the BC Liberals think they are fooling us with is a joke, siphoning off multi-billions of dollars from ICBC, BC Hydro, MSP, HST, gas and the many other fees that we pay for everything from drivers licences to passports to electronic’s, batteries etc. etc. that have all been doubled or tripled by the BC LIberals, according to the BC liberals these are not taxes but something else.
The kicker is they still can not balance the budget.
Not to forget some of the BC Liberals finer moments such as HST, BC Rail, cost overruns on convention centre, the fact that the taxpayers of BC will be paying for the 5th lane on the Port Mann bridge decades after it has been torn down.
Last but not least the pennies on the dollar give-away of all BCs valuable assets that successive governments and generations of taxpayers have accumulated over the years, this government reminds me of the family drunk squandering his inheritance by selling off all the family jewels in a drunken orgy, playing the foolish big-shot by lavishing all his buddies with exorbitant gifts, ending up with nothing to show for it but a huge debt, bankruptcy and decades of hardship for the citizens of BC as they are forced to pay down this massive debt.
Is this pitiable legacy something any rational person would be proud of?
Wayne Clark
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