Last night John Cummings said he intends to relax party control over his MLA’s as they could represent the constituency first and foremost.

Honestly I find that promise to be an election campaign 180 from recent history and that from a man who will likely never sit in the BC legislature… hence desperation.

80% of people in BC do not support the Enbridge Gateway project. Cummings did his party in with his whipping the issue. The candidates he has dumped in recent days likely stand a better chance at getting elected as independents.

I think if the local conservative candidates wanted to come into play they would have to come out and renounce their support for Enbridge Gateway and risk standing on the other side of the issue from a man who won’t likely get elected to the next legislature anyways.

Hopefully these candidates actually ANSWER the questions.

Who ever answers questions at those so-called forums? They never do. I do not bother going to those things anymore. In my mind, they are totally useless.

Doesn’t it strike you as being rather strange that the leader of a Party that says ‘he’ is going to relax control over ‘his’ MLAs has already ‘fired’ four of them, three for expressing opinions ‘he’ says ‘his’ Party finds reprehensible?

And this after telling us last night how thorough ‘his’ Party is in vetting the acceptance of anyone as its candidate BEFORE they can be one?

Just how is that any different from the NDP firing their Kelowna candidate for expressing her own opinions on a few issues, ones which a great many of her would-be constituents might also hold?

Or the kind of dictatorial control exercised by Gordon Campbell when any of ‘his’ MLAs deigned to put the interests and concerns of their constituents first, and actually tried to publicly represent them? Remember Paul Nettleton?

Contrast this with what we had under WAC Bennett’s Social Credit regime. Where numerous of ‘his’ MLAs actually savaged their own government, inside the Legislature and out, and sometimes more brutally than the Opposition, whenever they felt their constituents needs weren’t being properly addressed by it.

Remember Cyril Shelford? And his one man crusade against the pricing practices of ‘Big Oil’ in the this region? Did he get booted out of the Socred caucus for doing the job he felt he was elected to do?

How about Percy Young, who had the temerity to publicly express opinions on the connection between ‘international finance’ and ‘Zionism’ that parallel many of Eagleone’s? That must have been embarrassing to a Movement that was often countering claims that it was ‘anti-Semitic’.

Or Irvine Corbett, who was one of the Socred’s to vote against his own government on an issue where he thought they were wrong, and those votes led to the defeat of the government in the House and the seeking of a new mandate?

Or the Socred MLA in one of the North Shore ridings of the Lower Mainland, who raised particular Hell when a proposed bridge didn’t get underway in the time frame it had been promised during the election campaign? Mel Bryan, I believe?

Were any of these people ‘silenced’, and made persona non grata by their ‘Party’ and its leader? They weren’t. It was the electors, the people who put them in, who would decide their fate. And did.

The BC Conservatives had a great chance in this election to prove they were different. Some of their individual candidates may yet win election on their own merits. But the Party itself hasn’t demonstrated the fundamental differences most of us were hoping to see. And in doing so has consigned most of its candidates to being just another group of ‘also-rans’ once again.

This whole election this time around is a bloody mess.

The Liberals and the NDP do not deserve to represent the people of this Province. If anything they both represent vested interest groups only.

The Conservatives got off to a bad start, and really haven’t been able (yet) to get much traction. At best they can elect a few people and may be able to influence the elected Government to some degree.

The Green’s certainly seem to have the well being of the average citizen at heart, however they have no staying power when it comes to finances etc; It would be good to see them get a few people elected.

This is a positioning election, and all parties will try to get into position to win the next election.

Hopefully this time around we will have some sort of coalition, so that we can get some honest, and open representation in Victoria.

Have a nice day.

The “pro-HST” Chamber of Commerce? The same C of C that only allows a one minute reply to every inane question municipaly? Like for example, one minute to answer, “What would you do to reduce crime in Prince George?” It is to laff. C of C , their hangers on, the old boys clubs and real estate agents. What? No used car dealers? Well connected wheeler dealers and the like having a separate meeting with our politicians? I have my doubt that any lowly Chinese person in China can sit in on their dictators having a meeting in the Great Hall. Double standard? Input? Not yours. Not now. We will join you at the “childrens table later”. Suckers.

The Liberals and the NDP do not deserve to represent the people of this Province. If anything they both represent vested interest groups only.
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Not really, the NDP represents people that live in BC and raise families here….the BC Liberals represent shareholders, many of whom live in foreign lands….

“the NDP represents people that live in BC and raise families here”
Says the union mill worker. I guess its all good as long as youre one of the “vested interest” groups they represent eh? ;)