On the flip side, does anyone remember what it was like the last time the NDP was in power? Almost nothing got done- mining, exploration, even forestry was throttled by bureaucracy gone mad. It took forever to get a cutting permit approved (and this was at the start of the beetle problem, when there was a real need to try to get in front of it). Mineral exploration was almost non-existent thanks to uncertainty over FN issues and the cowardice of the NDP to open up the industry in the face of a vocal minority of neo-hippy “environmentalist” idealists.

Nothing wrong with thoughtful oversight but it looks like the NDP wants to get us back to where we were and the people of the province will suffer for it.

Same old (corrupted) Liberals, same old (inept) NDP. Pick your poison.

Yet, under the NDP, the economy expanded an average of 3% per year. Under the Liberals it has expanded an average of about 2%. Clearly, the NDP management of the economy was more effective than the Liberals. Remember, actions speak louder than words, and the NDP actions on the economy were more effective than their opponents’. Now, if a more effective economic growth rate is inept, what does that make the less effective Liberals?

Don’t forget that while the NDP was in power pretty much everyone’s economy was expanding (and at a greater rate than BC’s). It was a boom time for much of the rest of Canada while BC was performing well below what would have been possible under a more open / less bureaucratic regime.

The NDP also didn’t have a global economic collapse to work through… The Japanese market dried up, however, and if memory serves that’s what the NDP often used as a scapegoat for their economic under achievement.

The NDP has always favoured big expensive government, bureaucracy, and lots of red tape, so their position is not surprising.

Ammonra – if the NDP did so great with our economy then why were we receiving Federal transfer payments to our “Have not” status province?

Gee how long have the NDP been out and the same whine continues, amazing.

If the NDP win the next election I’m sure the mining industry hasn’t “burnt their bridges” behind them in most South American countries. Maybe the South Americans told our mining industry that governments change and they (the miners) should keep in touch. A year or two after the Dippers are in we can resume our whining.

“Gee how long have the NDP been out and the same whine continues, amazing.”

You know I’m right. Don’t fight it.

We live a province rich in natural resources that are not only in demand but will be in ever increasing demand.
I believe that the Liberal will give too much to big business and the people in this resource rich province will receive a fraction of what they should while corporations will reap huge profits and their executives will be given obscene bonuses.

While I’m at it, I hate the fact that we export raw logs while mills BC close.
I know many people in the Van/Vic. area who say the German built ferries are poorly built and require repair parts from Germany.
This gov’t didn’t even seek bids from BC shipyards to build the new ferries despite the fact that the Spirit class ferries built in BC are the work- horses of the fleet (and have a larger car capacity).
The money spent on those ferries would have been better spent in BC: jobs, taxes paid — and even promoting the Liberals’ families first claim—- imagine something from them that isn’t a lie !

Government’s do not create anything of value that consumers want or need. They take from every working man and woman, every corporation, plus every dollar you spend giving nothing in return except rules, regulations, controls and a huge, expensive, inefficient bureacracy designed to bog us down.

They do not serve us any longer, they serve themselves and their ever increasing appetite for more money. They get more and we get less. The harder we work, the less we get.

Wonder why there is such a concern about an underground economy. Look at Greece.

“While I’m at it, I hate the fact that we export raw logs while mills BC close.”

Know anyone who wants to buy our 2×4’s? I don’t either. The bottom dropped out of the US housing market some time ago. Better to ship something than ship nothing. BC doesn’t have a monopoly on trees.

“Know anyone who wants to buy our 2×4’s? I don’t either.”
Last I looked there were still some sawmills operating and according to one of the last reports I read stated that the supply of trees for our mills is a concern.

This article is about environmental protection and not the historonics of the Asian financial crisis verse liberal corruption.

I think 20-years on history will record the BC liberal and Harper government actions in regard to environmental assessments as an epic betrayal of the people and environment in BC… especially if they allow the Gateway project to proceed.

The sole purpose for Christy Clark to hang on to power now is because Harper changed the rules mid stream on the environmental review process allowing them to wrap up their decision before BC voters ever get a chance to change government in BC.

The Harper government in this sinister clown move shows their deep disrespect of democracy and voters having a say in their future.

Christy Clark playing to this play book shows she is hypocritical and has no qualms with being disingenuous in betraying BC on the most important issue to face this province in a generation… maybe she is hoping for the ambassadorship appointment by Harper to some far off plum location where she can continue to live high on tax payer dollars… while BC deals with the mess she leaves behind.

So, we can save our planet and environment more assuredly if we talk for six years instead of two, eh? Hmmm? Can anyone say “broken record” after two years? I can.

Eagle, your conspiracies are laughable.