Politicians Head to Victoria for Fall Sitting
Prince George, B.C. – Provincial politicians are gathering in Victoria for the fall sitting of the B.C. Legislature.
MLAs from the across the province will sit at noon Monday for the prorogation of the Second session of the Fortieth Parliament. Then at 1pm, Premier Christy Clark greets Lieutenant-Governor Judith Guichon on the front steps of the legislative building for an arrival ceremony that will be marked by a guard of honour and a 15-gun regal salute. The Third session of the Fortieth Parliament will be opened at 1:30 Monday afternoon.
The house is to sit for a total of 24 days this fall, Oct 6th to 9th, 20th to 23rd and 27th to 30th, and November 3rd to 6th, 17th to 20th and 24th to 27th. However, Premier Christy Clark will not be on hand for the entire sitting. She’ll be gone from this Thursday, Oct 9th through to the 18th on a trade mission to India, focussing on education and natural gas opportunities. Clark will be joined by Advanced Education Minister Amrik Virk and a business delegation including people from the film and television industries.
One of the major items to be discussed during the legislative sitting is the tailings pond disaster on B.C. Day in August at the Mount Polley mine near Likely.
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It is so good to see Christy Clark is running away for the fall sitting. This way she won’t have to answer any embarrassing questions about provoking a teachers strike by refusing to negotiate in good faith or ignoring the build up to the Polly Lake disaster. This shows her complete lack of competence.
Posted on Sunday, October 5, 2014 @ 11:57 AM by astro
It is so good to see Christy Clark is running away for the fall sitting. This way she won’t have to answer any embarrassing questions about provoking a teachers strike by refusing to negotiate in good faith or ignoring the build up to the Polly Lake disaster. This shows her complete lack of competence.
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Interesting twist, considering it was the BCTF who refused to negotiate in good faith.
CC also won’t have to answer the hard questions about the LNG promises she made. If the current environmental regulations stay intact, companies such as Petronas are going to continue to balk at further LNG development.
If the Liberals cave in and give LNG producers a pass on those regulations, then the industry is just as dirty as any other LNG producer on the planet, and not the “cleanest on the planet”.
Either way, she’s screwed herself with no wiggle room with her promises.
A trade mission to India you say. Trying to get us a better deal on Wal-Mart underwear no doubt.
Interesting twist axman, considering it was the Liberals who refused to negotiate in good faith.
Copied from a cbc.ca story
“The NDP unveiled court transcripts in the legislature during question period Wednesday it claims show the B.C. government’s chief negotiator admitting under oath the province was trying to provoke a full scale teachers’ strike.
The transcripts contain testimony made under oath during a trial that ended in a scathing ruling last month, when B.C. Supreme Court Justice Susan Griffin found the province had violated teachers’ constitutional rights in an ongoing dispute between the government and the B.C. Teachers’ Federation (BCTF).
The documents refer to government negotiator Paul Straszak testifying under oath about a conversation he had with Premier Christy Clark’s deputy minister about the status of labour talks.
NDP leader Adrian Dix says the transcripts clearly show Straszak admitting the government’s objective was to provoke a full scale strike.”
“A trade mission to India you say. Trying to get us a better deal on Wal-Mart underwear no doubt.”
Nay nay… the wages in India are too high. Underwear would require a trade mission to Bangladesh.
Pass on what environmental regulations?
seamut: Carbon Tax and reducing GHG emissions by 2020.
Link to Bob Simpson article
Hopefully some of the concerns of B.C.’s youth are discussed.
“Past generations voted to spend more and more money expanding entitlements and the size of government. They are handing the next generation the bill.”
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http://www.generationscrewed.ca
Dragonmaster, we all know that you live and breath “NDP”, but if you want an interesting twist on things, how about this these?
The Liberals got stuck having to dig the taxpayers out from under a clearly unaffordable NDP “sweetheart” deal with the teachers, circa 1998!
And, regarding the Mount Polley situation, looks like the Liberals will be left answering for regulations put in place by the NDP!!
Oh, say it isn’t so!!
Why wreck economies reducing GHG? What is the perceived result? What is the carbon tax supposed to do? See a any results?
Hart Guy: “looks like the Liberals will be left answering for regulations put in place by the NDP!! ”
Uhm… how many years have the Liberals been in power now? And you’re still blaming the NDP for problems today? If they can’t make a positive change in regulations, even after a 12 year period, pray tell what exactly they can accomplish?
Seamut…. My point was more to say that CC has gotten herself into a pickle where she is going to have to break a promise about LNG, one way or the other. Either the LNG project will not be up and running by the next election, OR she will have to back track on the “cleanest” promise.
Quite frankly I think she’s a coward and lying sack of bovine plop. I’d be a happier resident of BC if the province was run by somebody with integrity such as Shirley Bond or the like.
The election is over. Time to move on.
You seriously need new material JB. Yes the election is over… in fact three elections are over, and yet not much has been accomplished. When something is wrong it’s somehow still the legacy of the NDP regime. How convenient that the election is over only when it suits you.
Christie travelling with people from the film and television industries. Hmmmm. Perhaps she’s more interested in Bollywood than BC Wood.
JB the election may be over but the damage that will be done by the so called Liberals is just beginning. What a collection of near do well’s.
Should be ne’er do well’s.
Pylot: “You seriously need new material JB. Yes the election is over… in fact three elections are over”
Yeah, well why can’t the NDP supporters let it go? Get over it already.
Just so I’m understanding. Nobody here is allowed to have an opinion on the current gov’t in power because you say so? Aftern an election, nobody is allowed to challenge the status quo? This coming from the very person who cries like a baby when a person challenges your opinion that might not be popular?
Plus I can’t seem to find anybody talking about an election in this thread, so who’s the one that can’t let it go?
I admit it, I am amused by your over inflated sense of self importance.
Wants India to buy our coal, wood and LNG in return BC will out source jobs, all good in BC politics
Palopu:”Should be ne’er do well’s.” I am of a different opinion (oh, no!).
They did really well steering BC through the 2008 global financial meltdown beginning in 2008, the worst since the Great Depression! In contrast the NDP couldn’t handle the *Asian Flu* and took us from #1 province in Canada to #10 have-not status.
By the way, JB, discussing the status quo is legit at any time, before, during and after an election! Especially vital after an election because
that is when the promises they made to get elected are still fresh in quite a few people’s memories!
PG: “By the way, JB, discussing the status quo is legit at any time”
I never said it wasn’t. However there is a difference between that and those who are always pushing their pro-NDP agendas and doing nothing more taking cheap shots at Christy Clark.
Still nothing intelligent to add, hey Hart Guy.
Look in the mirror JB.
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