Provincial Budget Consultation Coming to P.G.
Tuesday, August 26, 2014 @ 3:51 AM
Prince George, B.C.- The Provincial Government’s budget consultation is about to get underway and will include a visit to Prince George.
The all-party Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services will hold a session in Prince George on September 17th, as one of 17 communities to have a public hearing. Three other communities will take part in video conference sessions.
Registration for the public hearings opens on Monday, Sept. 8, at 9 a.m. To register to make a presentation, contact the Parliamentary Committees Office by phone, 1 877 428-8337, or by email.
The committee will release a report on the results of its consultations by Nov. 15th.
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We should have our highway infrastructure as a top priority for this region, and I think we should have local politicians that advocate on our behalf.
At minimum we should have the narrow bridges up north replaced, and some shoulders added to the highway North of the Pine so wide loads can get through safely in the winter months. I think the four lane expansion of the PG to Vanderhoof highway should take priority over the highway south of PG, and at some point the province should be forced to put in a proper pedestrian side walk and lighting up the length of the Hart Highway from the Nechako bridge up to North Kelly Road… seeing as the province has a responsibility to provide safety for provincial highways.
Ideally the province would four lane a highway from Whistler to PG with off ramps for side roads to Williams Lake, Quesnel and Vanderhoof terminating at a new South Fraser Crossing. This could cut 250km off the trip to Vancouver and if built to highway 1 standards could shorten the trip to under 5-hours making PG-Van a viable commute. Connect this through to the Alberta border and we would have the shortest route between the Lower Mainland and Edmonton and the oil sands.. to say nothing of BC’s LNG construction and build out.
Most of this route is flat plateau land, but we would need to tunnel through about 20-50 km of mountain North of Pemberton as the main choking point. In Europe tunnels of this magnitude are a common place part of building highways.
One wonders sometimes are we building a province or looking to flip real estate in the Lower Mainland for provincial priorities.
Eagleone:- “One wonders sometimes are we building a province or looking to flip real estate in the Lower Mainland for provincial priorities. “
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Wonder not, Eagle. It’s clearly flipping real estate in the Lower Mainland. This government doesn’t know there’s a difference between ‘inflation’ and ‘prosperity’. And so anything that increases real estate prices is mistaken for the latter. It’s the ‘land pimp’ mentality they inherited from Gordon Campbell.
Too bad, really, since history shows that inflation has destroyed every great civilisation in which it’s taken root. It brought down WAC Bennett’s government in 1972, which had undoubtedly been the best government this Province has had, before or since.
And it will do in the Liberals, in the absence of any further major scandals that might come to light first.
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