Although I will never ever vote NDP, I find that I actually agree with Dix (if he’s telling the truth” about his preference to expand CNC rather than create a new skills training location at the old Rustad mill.

CNC has already got the experience, the institution, and the track record for its operation. So lets expand on something that has been proven.
The old Rustad mill on the other hand I am told is sitting on an environmental problem that needs to be cleaned up…..and I as a taxpayer don’t want to pay for someone else’ obligated site
cleanup.

In addition, I understand that the old site is now in new private hands, and donating it to the province would yield a nice tax credit as well as escaping the site contamination cleanup.

Wonder if there is an alterior motive at work here?

Bottom line is for me….NO to old Rustad site…YES to CNC expansion…

Well if you don’t vote for them, you won’t see it happen.

You probably won’t see it happen even if you did vote for them acrider. How many hundreds of communities do these guys stop at and hint they will do spmething and just where does pg fall on the priority list.

Caribou connector gone really…..

BC Rail gone really….

So we’re going to train people here to work in FT MAC? The NDP are against ALL pipelines, Site C, increased tanker traffic, and fracking….that will definately eliminate any worker shortage in BC.

And there is not a 3yr wait to become a welder as reported in the leaders debate.

Well, one way they created “new” jobs and trained “new” workers when the NDP was in power last time, was to send a bunch of cops to New Zealand to learn where the “on” switch was on all the new photo radar vans was that we soon began seeing all over the Province in so-called “high accident rate” areas, and then proceeded to hire a whole whack of staff to sit in them all day watching the meter rack up new revenue for the government coffers from all us speeding sinners !!

Too bad the drunks and drug smugglers, warrant for arrestees, etc. were just giving them the finger as they quietly drove by.

With what the NDP is saying where are all the trades people from the 90’s working from when they were in power. They left to find work else where and never came back. The trades people that have been trained since will need to go else where to work as NDP trace record shows.

Trade classes are full, and high levels of math expectations close out many good hard working people. Changes must be made at the entry level, learn the math in the classroom do away with the entry exams, if you had the grades in high school this should be all that is needed to get into trade school.

:…before he looks at the expansion of the Cariboo Connector.”

On a priority scale of 1 to 10 (with 1 being the highest priority) I KNOW that the NDP’s priority of completing the Cariboo Connector would be somewhere below 22 and a 1/2.

It would never get done, skills training or not.

Yeah, the NDP let provincial highways deteriorate the last time they were in power, I would expect they will do so again.

If the highway work is not done, no skilled worlkers are required for road work.

10 years for a mine to come on stream? That is because it took 10 years for the companies to get off their asses to do the proposals. If there were enough demand for the ore/metals and the price was guaranteed for 30 years, you should see how quickly they would be in the ground.

Ten years for a mine to develop is an average no matter what part of the world you are in. Keep in mind we are talking about major open pit projects with ore reserves in the millions of tons. The nature of the deposit dictates the length of time and cost for a mine project. Not the government in charge but it does help with a supportive govt.

Besides (and the NDP knows that) the present government or any government can’t rush the approval processes and must consult properly with all stakeholders and do all the proper environmental due diligence. It can’t be rushed without taking illegal shortcuts. And it should not.

Dix knows that all this must be done and how on earth is he going to manipulate the corporations to invest in something that is only half-baked?

Can’t believe most anything that is said on the campaign trail. If it sounds too good to be true it usually isn’t.

Dix says he has been to the old Rustad mill site a couple of times.
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Strange I sat no more then 30 feet from where Dix spoke and I dont recall that he mentioned the Rustad site and he didnt take questions from the floor.

But then thats a media report they bullshit us so much that in thr end they belive their own crap.
Cheers

And there was no mention of the Caribo connector.
Cheers

“Speaking to a media scrum in Prince George”

I did not realize you were part of the media. PArt time job? ;-)

Gag, cough I just threw up my Christy Crunch.

Dix’ll probably have no choice but to spend some taxpayer money on the Cariboo Connector, but it’ll probably become a “unions only” project like the island highway project and the fast ferry project was under their NDP government.

Contrary to what some want the rest of us to believe, we are not the fools we might once have been.

There are too many of us still around who lived, struggled, and and paid taxes to the NDP government for ten odd years back then and can cast our votes from experience, instead of hot air and hype.

It is part of the job to specify the priorities of an NDP government before the election. What he is saying is that skill training will be high in the agenda of the next government. Any problem with that?

It is good policy, but we should wait to see how it will be implemented, when the rubber hits the road and after we have voted the party for a change into office.

Any talk of elimination of discrimination in work place in PG?

I recollect Chief Green making promises. Dix wouldn’t be like her in that respect. Would he?

Isn’t that strange, I sat 10 feet away from NDP Leader Dix when he answered the questions that I had asked. Both about the Cariboo Connector, which was my first Question and later his visits to the old Rustad site.
Let’s see four media, Dix, both candidates , and Dix’s assistant.
4.30 to 5.00 pm. Tuesday. Like to hear the tape.

Ben Meisner

How many trips will Dix make to the old Rustad site? Seems every time he comes to the Village he visits the Rustad Site.

And since when is the Cariboo connector high on the agenda. We drive 97s a couple of time a year to waste monny on such a project is a typical liberal idea to feed their freinds.

Why were questions not aske about poverty and and the education agenda.

And no I’m not working part time for the media. How could anyone become involved with the media when I have already expressed my views? In reality Gus you have your own scrumb on this site with the quantity of dumb information that you provide.
Cheers

Ben what was his answers

Walter198: “Trade classes are full, and high levels of math expectations close out many good hard working people. Changes must be made at the entry level, learn the math in the classroom do away with the entry exams, if you had the grades in high school this should be all that is needed to get into trade school”

If trades classes are full, it would seem to suggest that there are sufficient folks applying to them that do meet the math requirements. Also keep in mind two other things: 1) many trades programs only require math 10 essentials, the lowest level of math available, and 2) you may have taken math in high school some 10 or even 20 years ago, or even just 5 years ago, but I challenge you manipulate a formula as required in electrical, or lay out a spiral staircase as required in the later years in carpentry. Math skills rust quickly, hence the entrance testing to assess “current” math skills. This is in the student’s interests as it a measure to assure academic success. Too bad attitude and willingness to work hard can’t be tested for, but that’s the way it is.

“We drive 97s a couple of time a year to waste monny on such a project is a typical liberal idea to feed their freinds.”

O.k. so you personally don’t drive south very much. How about others who do? Do you use the ferries much or not at all? No? So they shouldn’t have any priority either?

How about trying to see the bigger picture and stop being so antique? It’s about time we get a decent share back of the taxes we send down south. Safe 4-lane highways (the 21st century kind) are o.k. for the lower mainland, Kelowna and Kamloops (!) but not for us?

Retired 02

You must really be constipated as you are full of it today. Better add a LOT of bran to your diet.

For the northern part of the province to develop to it’s full potential efficient highway links are crucial. Truck traffic has increased by leaps and bounds which has resulted in a lot more serious accidents and fatalities on highway 97 from Cache Creek to the Peace country. If you only travel it a couple of times a year you cannot give an informed opinion.

BC soon to the province with fully indexed welfare rates:(

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BTW Do you know what a rhetorical question is?

Thanks for standing up for 21st century highways!

“BC soon to (be) the province with fully indexed welfare rates:(”

I have no problem with that, but MY pension (Canada and otherwise) are NOT fully indexed to inflation! What’s wrong with that picture?

Ah, I know. I worked all my life in private industry and NOT in the public service…private industry needs to make a profit (nasty word) to justify its continuing existence.

“Dix’ll probably have no choice but to spend some taxpayer money on the Cariboo Connector, but it’ll probably become a “unions only” project like the island highway project and the fast ferry project was under their NDP government.”

That union highway is the best highway in the province, just awesome, go unions.

I have traveled HW 97 and HW 1 and there isn’t much traffic on HW 97 to justify adding any more lanes to it.

If these is any money for road expansion, portions of HW1 and other roads with high volume of traffic in BC and with long delays need expansion. We are in this financial mess and corruption in this province because of MLAs building 4 lane roads in a place where 2 lanes is more than enough. … building a half empty and underutilized sport center which is now a huge burden on finances of the town.

Hopefully the next BC government will allocate money when it is urgently needed and not because of the ego of the MLA who asked for it.

I’m still wondering why the Connector had toll booths and the Sea to Sky didn’t??

Skills training and education are absolutely necessary in our society…without a good education our youth will all be living on welfare or the avails of criminal activity.

Adrian Dix has the right idea, it’s time for a change.

“I have traveled HW 97 and HW 1 and there isn’t much traffic on HW 97 to justify adding any more lanes to it”

Tell that to the families of those killed on that road. How many this winter just between here and Quesnel?

I have seen people driving in excess of 130 KM/h in that stretch. It needs more speed control than anything else.

Perhaps some road light deflectors in the middle of the roads helps the foggy parts in BC roads.

“I’m still wondering why the Connector had toll booths and the Sea to Sky didn’t??”

Wonder no longer …. there was an alternate route for the connector ….. not the case with Sea to Sky …..

“That union highway is the best highway in the province”

Not with all those at grade crossings and signalized intersection. They can’t even synchronize the signals.

Jobs and skills training for what. There will be no jobs if the NDP get in. Remember the last time they got in, jobs, investment and companies flocked to Alberta. Along with them went tax revenue.
I had to hire my best friends mother so his parents did not loose their house, while he traveled to Alberta and Ontario as an electrician for short term jobs here and there. They made it but just barely.

“I’m still wondering why the Connector had toll booths and the Sea to Sky didn’t??”

Wonder no longer …. there was an alternate route for the connector ….. not the case with Sea to Sky …..
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That is categorically untrue Gus, there is an alternate route through Lilloet to Whistler we drove it in the 1970s to go skiing….so try again. Why would the Connector get toll booths and not the Sea to Sky??

And the sign said “union only need apply”.
I remember those signs in the 60s. Only they said then “only whites need apply”. free access to all and every one reguardless of affiliation.

Just in case people do not like to click on links. This is an important passage from the link I do not want anyone who cares miss.

“The weight of evidence, however, suggests the skills mismatch is exaggerated. A recent Bank of Montreal note pointed out the percentage of businesses reporting difficulty hiring in the Bank of Canada’s business outlook survey is 25%, well below the 15-year average of 35%. When severe labour shortages do exist, employers typically respond by raising pay. That’s not happening either. Wage growth has averaged around 2% annually, roughly in line with inflation. “For the economy as a whole, I don’t feel it’s our most pressing problem,” says BMO chief economist Doug Porter. “A shortage of jobs is actually a bigger issue.” Finley’s own department examined labour projections from 2011 to 2020 and found there was “limited evidence of imbalances between labour demand and supply in recent years.” The study concluded “no major imbalances by skill level are projected over the next decade.”

Queen Green says our property taxes are fully indexed with inflation, too bad inflation is only half of the amount they index us with each year

Dix says he is going to create more government jobs to better process mining permits, going to raise taxes to big banks.
When he does that he will need to raise money to pay these high paying government jobs.
Going to give grants to trades students so they can get out of school and get high wages.
What about all the other students that go to school and end up with school debt, we all understand to get an education it takes planing not giveaways
Then when he taxes the banks they will pass it on to the customers in higher fees and interest on anything you need there money for including the education.
We need trades people, nurses, doctors,people to work in hotels,Tim Horton, and every other job out there.
In order to give grants that money needs to come from some were or it just becomes some form of debt to pass on to our customers or our Children and then there Children.
Vote NDP and pay till they get booted out and the next government straightens it out like last time