Now the business community can enjoy the feelings that those against the HST felt.

If they are really concerned maybe they could get the necessary signatures to force the Government to a referendum.

My guess is that they will sit on their butts and do nothing.

Seems the business community had no problem when the Government wanted to take $2.6 Billion from consumers every year.

If your business model can’t handle a 1% increase in taxation, you shouldn’t be in business.

Incease the tax to 15% won’t effect jobs just means little less champain, we are doing our share they should do the same.

Conserva-Who?

Who asked ya.

“It defies logic that the government would raise taxes on British Columbia’s job-creators”

Absolutely correct John, please keep charging ahead with this agenda. The general public in BC will thank you for it ;)

John Cummins, your party asked you to leave.
It’s very doubtful you can field any candidates this election, and you’ve done the voters a disservice by claiming you’re a political party. As in Canadaspeakpolite, “Please Leave”……

“It defies logic that the government would raise taxes on British Columbia’s job-creators – at a time when jobs are supposed to be everyone’s number-one priority,”

Actually a good point ….. I thought we were having a problem matching skill sets with in-demand jobs.

I think we need a bit of a better explanation of how to create jobs and actually have someone do those jobs if we can’t get the skilled people required.

That 1% increase is going to be nothing compared to the 10 to 20% increase in labour and benefit costs to pull them out of a booming oil and gas economy ……

Just imagine what that will look like when more gas and oil can flow from the fields to compete on the world market.

Worse still, waht will happen when all the infrastructure is built to send energy products the world over to the extent of causing a glut and a downturn in prices ….. to the level of those available to our friends to the south.

That 1% …. peanuts to the other concerns there should be out there of the risks just ahead.

Cummins was always all about Cummins…certainly not the well being of BC.

So Cummins has done everything he could to ensure that his personal vendetta against the Liberals was fulfilled…looks like he just may succeed. Cummins Conservatives will not win a single seat in the election, but they could take just enough votes to ensure that the NDP will win in previously tight ridings.

Cummins just doesn’t understand….his goals always were simply self-serving, his timing was wrong, his leadership is “old and angry”, and his results could well be handing the province over to the NDP.

John Cummins may have succeeded in his personal vendetta…but he also certainly may have succeeded in dealing our great province a disastrous hand which may take a decade to recover from.

Well done Cummins…….”there’s no fool like an old angry fool”

That hand has already been dealt us BY the BC Liberals, gimmeabreak. Those who vote Conservative will only be doing so because they’re NOT the Liberals, who have now finally admitted their policies are the same as those of the NDP, i.e, “Tax cuts DON’T work!”
Instead of cutting them in ways that they DO work. For us all, as consumers. Something they’ve had 12 years to do, and failed miserably.

The timing was so very wrong…if the Liberals were going down in flames, then let them go, dont help them. Let them lose to the NDP and THEN get the Conservative Party going. new and fresh alternative while the NDP are government would be a much better way for the Conservatives to succeed. So now they will be blamed by po’d Liberals for heping the NDP win…the Conservatives needs a bunch those former Liberals to rebuild a REAL free enterprise right of center party.

Cummins and his “Conservatives” will now and forever be known as the facilitators of an NDP government in our province.

No, I don’t think so, gimmeabreak. The Liberals are most likely to be toast whether the Conservatives run anybody or not.

You can’t have any confidence in a group that have done things the way they have. That say one thing in an election campaign and then do the exact opposite after they’re elected. And that opposite costs us. Time after time. The public might be understanding and cut them some slack once or twice, but they’ve made too regular a habit of doing that.

And if, “Tax cuts work!”, (and they do, done properly), why are they now raising them? (Openly, this time ~ after they never really ‘cut’ them at all, just shifted them, and we pay more now overall than we did in 2001).

A lot of people who’d vote Conservative as an alternative, would just stay home and not vote at all rather than vote for the Liberals again, or the NDP, if the choice were only between those two.

The NDP might be helped in that, but it’s a vital necessity to ‘dung out’ the Liberals, and have some credible ‘free-enterprise’ alternative develop that’s not dominated by the present Liberal insiders.

The other thing is, if the Conservatives weren’t there, and those who’d vote for them because they’re not the Liberals or NDP, DID vote for the NDP, it could give the NDP reason to say that the public overwhelmingly approves of their platform. When a lot of people don’t, but just want the Liberals out of there.