Sinclair could have written his reaction before seeing the budget. Too predictable.

It would seem that Tim McEwan is on Gordo's mailing list. He is spouting the same line as the MLAs and big business.

No tears here for the special interest groups cut in funding. When times are tough, you learn what you can live without. Will the sky fall? I doubt it.

"shelf prices will be increased so the Province will continue to receive the same amount of revenue from liquor sales. "

Wasn't the price of alcohol an issue during the election, and didn't the Liberals attack the NDP by claiming they would increase the prices? Is this another Liberal flip flop?

Sometimes you have to back up a little to move ahead. I agree with Harbinger!

Sometimes you have to back up a little to move ahead. I agree with Harbinger!

Who voted for Tim McEwan ??? Its entities like IPG that are a drag on our tax dollars. A budget of approx $2.5 Million, and what do we get???. Support for a Government who is in the process of taxing the hell out of us.

So we have to set up IPG, pay for it with our tax dollars, hire a dude like McEwan, so he can tell us that this tax increase is a good thing.

Just vote NDP next time. Maybe all the rednecks on this site might find happy times by doing so. Campbell's friends are not happy now, but voted Liberal last time. What is there to lose by changing your vote away from the Gordo??

Hey cougs, do you agree with Harbinger?

;)

All is well in LaLa Land. The inmates are running the nut house and all the Liberal shills are spewing the same old tripe!

Health care premiums are going up. Health care service is going down, and I can't even get a doctor but premiums are going up. Ya let's not vote NDP they would be terrible for the province.

The Government cant force Doctors to come to Prince George or other Northern areas to practice, and as a result they tend to go the the Island, or Vancouver, or the Okanogan, as a first choice.

This has always been the case in the North, and it is not likely to change any time soon.

I think that people in Prince George tend to forget that we live in the middle of a wilderness, and have approx 6 Months of winter, where it is dark, and cold, with little to do, and are 500 Miles from the nearest City of any consequence. (Vancouver, Edmonton)

As a choice for Doctors I suggest that 9 times out of 10 Prince George would be at the bottom of the list.

Doctors can make a good living in Prince George, and buy houses relatively cheap, etc; etc; etc; , however these so called incentives dont seem to be attracting to many people.

Actually no that hasn't always been the case. That's a cop out. I grew up in Vanderhoof we always had a sufficient supply of doctors. They imported a lot of them from South Africa but at least we had some. If you want more doctors in the north give them what they want. More operating room time, better equipment, more opportunity to practice what they went to school for.

I agree with Palopu. Discontinue funding to things like the tax-sucking IPG and we might be better off. I still have yet to hear what IPG does to justify the amount of money shoveled to it.

Bring in the NDP. We can again have 10% of the population on welfare and we can get the Dippers to tax us and borrow $50 million pesos to build our Performing Arts Centre, make us a have-not province again and then doctors will line up to come to our gritty little mill town to work. Especially the specialists. Then we can fire the Northern Health bus drivers because we won't need those buses anymore and then those bus drivers can drive Greyhound buses full of people wanting to leave our cultured town. It all works out.

Keep your blinders on Harbinger, it must be how you get through life.

Can't keep a lock on my wallet if I'm taxed from the source. Besides, I have a memory.

Say no to NDP
Say no to Liberal

Vote anyone but.

Palopu wrote:
"I think that people in Prince George tend to forget that we live in the middle of a wilderness, and have approx 6 Months of winter, where it is dark, and cold, with little to do, and are 500 Miles from the nearest City of any consequence. (Vancouver, Edmonton)"

Edmonton is a City of consequence?

1. It is at the same latitude as PG and it is colder than PG, based on the degree heating days for that city.
2. It is a good 3.5 hours to any downhill skiing worth driving to.
3. It has zilch lakes around it.
4. It has national sports teams
5. it has theatres
6. it has museums and art galleries
7. the only city of any consequence, other than Calgary which is a poor man's repeat of Edmonton is Vancouver which is further away than it is for us.
8. people from Edmonton and Calgary can be found all over the southern interior of BC and the Kootnays since they have few opportunities such as that part of BC presents.

Alberta was smart when they put the capital in the middle of the province rather than close to the US border such as the other provinces along the 49th.

Albertans are not whimps ...... sort of like most Canucks other than the lotusland bunch.

Yes Wolfie! I took Economics 101 at C.N.C. so I understand this a little bit! Most of the people on these boards took Economics whine-o-whine! You can not have your cake and eat it too in recessionary times.

I agree with supertech
I cannot support either party so next election I will vote anyone but Liberal or NDP
it is what I should have done last election.

Economics 101 in CNC? Take it at a college in Shanghai to learn how economics works.

If you really want to know how to get a country up by its bootstraps during a depression, never mind recession, then read the actions of FDR in the USA and his "great deal". Talk about not being able to have your cake and eat it too, you will see how wrong you are on that.

If you go back to your economic 101 material see if you covered anything under Keynesian economics.

Many posters on this Board think either socialism or laissez-faire capitalism is the way to go. However, most governments in the western world are practicing versions of Keynesianism right now.

The BCLiberals are an exception to that rule, in my opinion. But then, BC has been relying on the rest of Canada to pull it through in the past, based solely on its beauty, no matter what government has been in power. So nothing new.

If BC were in the middle of the country in flat land and no ocean, they would be in poorer shape than Manitoba.

It was the NEW DEAL not the great deal and it only prolonged the great depression.

The population of Edmonton and Prince George in the early 1900's were approx the same. To-day we have Edmonton with a population of over 780,000 people and Prince George with a population of 72,000 people.

This means an increase of 700,000 people in Edmonton over Prince George. So therefore Edmonton is a City of consequence insofar as Citys go within a 500 mile radius of Prince George.

Prince George with a population of 72000 would not be considered a City of consequence unless you were coming from Houston, Burns Lake, Endako, etc; ect; etc;