Had Her Chance

Christy Clark stated in this election campaign we have a choice - a stark choice - that is nothing less than a battle for the values that we hold dear as a society. 

I could not agree more with the ideal but would seriously doubt that it would be Clark and her BC Liberals that would be the ones to deliver the values the people of BC hold dear as a society.

As far as I know the people of BC still want to live in a democracy where the MLA they elect goes to Victoria and vigorously participates in the democratic process that is supposed to keep this province running smoothly and efficiently, that happened less than 4 weeks last year and has been the way this BC Liberal government has governed for the last 12 years.

A legitimate democratic government get’s a mandate from the voters they do not tell people what they want to hear and literally the day after the election do the exact opposite, for example BC Rail, BC Hydro, HST, etc etc.

The peoples business should be carried out in an open, transparent democratic fashion , not in dark secret rooms with shadowy unelected people with vested interests and come up with agreements that the government has no mandate or even any input into such as TILMA, NERT, EPIC and many other shady sweetheart deals to do with Crown corporations such as BC Hydro which have drastic consequences for the people of BC.

Selling off Crown corporations is a serious act and should be something a government definitely has a mandate for as these entities belong to the people of BC not the government of the day. 

Christy Clark has had plenty of time to show the people of BC how a government with her as leader would perform and as far as we have seen it is just more of the same basically a dictatorship with none of the signs of a healthy democracy, the same old back room deals, privatizing Crown corporations for pennies on the dollar without a mandate (LCB) which without a doubt will be privatized within days of a new BC Liberal government, the further bankrupting of BC Hydro, costly overruns on every project the Liberals attempt from the Convention centre , BC Place, bridges etc etc.  Apparently BC has the second most corrupt construction industry in Canada, no wonder with the government one of the biggest villains in this public fleecing.

The biggest lie of all that we have low taxes in BC, since the BC Liberals have come in our taxes have skyrocketed I pay $1600.00 for MSP alone a TAX that only BC and Alberta pay, I pay $50 to $60 dollars a month on bridge toll (TAX), the people of BC have been paying over $2 billion a year more for the HST (TAX), gas TAX, environmental TAX and literally dozens of new fees and taxes, not to mention the doubling and tripling of existing fees, (drivers licences, passports etc).

At the same time the BC Liberals have been cutting all our benefits such as medical benefits and at the same time increasing costs such as MSP, I now have $500 total medical benefits a year which doesn’t get me through January.

So far the liberals greatest accomplishments have been having a huge fire sale on the people of BCs assets and hatching flash projects that end up costing twice as much as promised and bankrolling casinos to the detriment of the charities that would normally receive these funds,  I wonder if the highest child poverty rate in Canada is also part of those values that are so dear to us as a society.