Premier Says Teachers Job Action Will Not Go On Indefinitely
Tuesday, February 28, 2012 @ 9:58 AM
Prince George, B.C.- Premier Christy Clark says she doesn’t think it’s acceptable for kids to end the shool year without a report card “It’s really important for parents to be able to keep up with what their kids are doing in school.”
Speaking on the Meisner program on CFISFM this morning, she says the bottom line on the teacher’s job action is this, her government is “not going to let it go on forever.”
She says the legislation will be very reasonable, “I want to make sure we give the teacher’s union some way of climbing down from this cliff edge they have gotten themselves to.”
It is expected that legislation will include an option for a mediator to deal with some of the non financial issues. The report issued last week said the $2 billion dollar gap between the Province’s net zero mandate and the wage demands from teachers was too wide to bridge.
Meantime, the teachers are heading to the Labour Relations Board to ask for permission to have full out walk out. Such a walkout would likely have limits and parameters as teachers are considered an essential service.
On the matter of taxes, Clark says B.C. is viewed as a safe haven for investment and she doesn’t think this is the time to increase taxes of any kind, including the carbon tax. “For me, I think, it’s kind of a boring government I run, it’s kind of meat and potatoes. I think about how are we going to get the economy moving at a good clip to make sure people have jobs.”
As for Enbridge, the Premier says the province of B.C. has the clout to stop the project but she is not prepared to prejudge the project, “It will be a balance of risk and benefits”. She says while there is an environmental review underway, and that is what is needed in order to assess the balance of risk and benefits.
She also committed to carrying on with the completion of the Cariboo Connector. She says there will also be lots of activity in Port development and LNG development.
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Christy and her little opinions couldn’t be more irrelevant to me at this point. Talk about your lame ducks.
âItâs really important for parents to be able to keep up with what their kids are doing in school.â
Duh… but it’s also up to the parents to become involved. My parents were always interested in my school assignments and test results – it’s not hard to know where your kid is gradewise if you follow what they do in school and show some interest.
Too many parents treat schools like a free daycare and leave it up to teachers to raise their children.
âItâs really important for parents to be able to keep up with what their kids are doing in school.â
This is the half-truth that the Liberals keep spewing… the kids ARE getting their grades, just not a little piece of paper. If the parents are that far removed from their child’s education, then maybe the parents need to look themselves in the mirror.
Legislating them back to full duties will be political suicide. Then who will be standing at the edge of a cliff?
I have had more progress reports for my child this year than in any other year. The teachers are constantly sending home reports concerning missing assignments and marks. Yes, Ms. Clark, it is important to keep up with what the kids are doing in school, but that is happening. The teachers are available to answer questions and concerns. I don’t feel that the current job action is affecting my kids education at all, and that is the problem. Things in the schools are going rather smoothly, so they (the teachers)need to step it up a bit, get the attention of the government, and force them to settle the contracts.
“She also committed to carrying on with the completion of the Cariboo Connector.”
That’s very Good News, for sure!
Clark on Enbridge: âIt will be a balance of risk and benefitsâ.
The statement in respect to the Enbridge pipeline is right on! So far the risks for B.C. are 99.9% and the benefits 0.01%.
Not too impressive, in fact very depressing!
Ol Christy is just using the teachers and the kids as a political diversion from the crumbling of the fiberals. Thinking people can see through this facade I hope. She should be ashamed using the kids for political gain.
Does her kid go to public or private school, just curious?
Private school seamutt
The cliff that the gov put the teachers on.
How does a 3-6-6 wage increase for a market adjustment and COLA get costed out at $2 billion dollars when the entire education budget is $4.7 billion?
I can’t understand how so many people take Christy’s words at face value. You don’t even need to research it. Common sense and some grade 7 math shows she doesn’t have a clue.
Families First! Unless you are a family that is in the government unions!
It sounded as if it was Gordo with a womans voice as she blamed the teachers for the short commings of the liberal party. The Liberals didn’t tell the oil companies to hold the line on the price of gas or even to cut out their gouging of the public. No one has told them that they are charging Canadians too damn much for gas. The Conservatives have a majority government and they haven’t said boo about petrolium companies gouging Canadians with their heigh prices. They haven’t even thought about a Canadian energy policy. This whole thing is comming to a head and it scares the hell out of me!!
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