I would describe the people that voted for Mr. Campbell as a ultra- rightwing minority, after all only 48 percent of registered voters even voted and I would remind you that Americans voted for George W. Bush twice.
Maybe you think he made America FANTASTIC also.
Maybe you think he made America FANTASTIC also.
Do you really believe it was only the HST that brought 91 percent of BCers to vehemently disapprove of the man and his ultra-rightwing polices.
He has single handedly brought the Premiers office into total disrepute with everything from DUIs, lies, sleazy machiavellian dictatorial ( 253 days legislature is out of session ) politics, a total lack of personal ethics and has probably had more corruption on his watch than has happened on any 3 previous premiers combined.
Maybe you could tell me what Mr. Campbell's positive legacy is other than the fact that he has sold off all the family jewels and tripled the provincial debt all in one decade, 7 deficit budgets, 5 federal transfer payments not counting the 1.6 billion he got for the HST and they still had to raid the coffers of ICBC for another 1 billion and still another deficit and BC once again a have not province.
How many decades will the taxpayers of BC be paying for the 5th lane on the Port Mann bridge after it is torn down, how much did his flying by the seat of his pants privatization at any cost polices cost the taxpayers of BC. How many jobs did he turn from $14 to $18 dollar an hour meaningful employment jobs to $8 to $10 an hour Macjobs with his illegal contract breaking and union busting agenda.
Tell me one thing Mr. Campbell did that looks anything like a province building legacy.
Like say W. C. Bennet who built a legacy that endures to this day despite Mr. Campbell's strenuous efforts to tear it all down.
We will have nothing to show for Campbell's efforts but poorly constructed P3 projects like the Golden Ears bridge that will be lucky to still be standing in 30 years and will never be paid for, ever.
He has accomplished nothing other than making a few people at the top of the public gravy train filthy rich while seriously diminishing the middle class and the poor and seniors and that is a whole other ongoing saga of loading on more and more taxes, fees and tolls.
His only real legacy is to see to it that everything more than paid for itself, going to the park, user fees etc. many other new fees (not taxes) gas taxes, electronics taxes, green taxes transit taxes etc., tolls, doubling and tripling of existing fees and inventing dozens of new ones, doubling medical premiums, tripling of tuition fees, doubling retirement home fees, charging HST on medical procedures, the ongoing process of privatizing public health care and hydro, cutting more and more social programs, giving $400 million to casinos and cutting the social programs that money usually paid for, the list goes on and on.
Is this a legacy that most people would want to be remembered for, I think not?
Wayne Clark
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