pat bell may be sad, but for me i say its my happy time, im sure the people who signed to scrap the hst are in the same boat. i think the arrogance of the man was enough to throw just about anyone off their supper and the lying on top of that was the icing on the cake. sure would have been interesting to see that basi virk deal through till the end. i hope i live long enough to learn the real story of bc rail.

Yay! Pat Bell, you are sad...The majority of BC'ers arent.

Only sad because you're still here as an MLA

open your eyes guys, the NDP will suck the life out of the north.

Rats are leaving the ship.

Is enjoying my rum and coke even more tonight!!

Next!

Will you folks get real. He leaves and there isn't another party in site to vote for. Gonna go green? Right! Gonna vote for the headless NDP? Right!
Just hope there's someone out there that can stay the course in that mudslinging world we know as politics. Don't forget, Sahota, Wilson, and the other dingbats who screwed us over big time.
Although it would be nice to see HST gone, who's gonna lead a political party everyone's comfortable with. They're all gonna get crapped on, nobody's happy with anyone these days, if you're not bellyaching at Campbell, you'll by whining about someone else. Put a lid on it.

The days of having only two choices in BC Politics ie; Liberal or NDP, have come to an end.

The newest Political Party on the scene in the BC First Party, headed up by Chris Delaney, who also is involved in the anti-HST movement. I suspect that Vanderzalm is somewhere in the background.

In any event this party will field 85 candidates in the next election and will give both the Liberals and the NDP a run for their money. Part of their platform is the elimination of the HST and the Carbon Tax, and a total revision of the BC Tax System to make it more equitable. In addition they resolve to keep BC Hydro as a Government owned entity.

They of course have other planks in their platform and you can browse them yourself by putting BC First Party in your search engine.

I predict that this party will take off and have a profound effect on politics in BC for the coming years.

For those hundreds of thousands of people who have been asking for a third choice, I suspect that you may get your wish.

Maybe you are simply missing the point,Slim2229.
This was never about what Campbell did or did not do, in terms of what his government built or didn't build.
It was about dishonesty,maniplation,and half truths.
It was about,and is still about, a government who didn't listen,probably because they didn't think they had to.
And they still will not admit they screwed it up.
That's arrogance, and it will put the final nail in the Liberal coffin.
When people are angry enough that they don't give a damn who replaces Campell,just as long as he personally is gone,something is very wrong.
Who did that?
Campbell has to accept full responsibility for all of it.
I doubt anyone will say everything Campbell did was bad,and some of his cabinet didn't exactly win any awards either.
He had some help.
We will get what we get,but whatever or whoever it is,hopefully we will never allow any politician to abuse our trust again.
If nothing else, we have hopefully learned that much.

Sorry Palopu,but I am just not feeling the love.
Delaney has a platform to sell and he hasn't done that yet.
He also has to sell himself.
He has a long way to go, and he should get at it, if the party wants to be a contender.
Delaney's high profile with anti- HST movement just isn't enough.

What I find really sad is that this drunken liar was able to screw us for so long: and all his toadies just kept sucking up to him.

Andyfreeze. Look up their website and you will see that things are starting to happen. If we want a third party we have to start somewhere. At present in BC we have a bunch of fringe groups from the Sex Party to the Marijauna Party, to the Communist Party, to the Refederation Party,. to the Provincial Conservative Party who are trying to rise from the dead. Of course their is still the defunct old Social Credit Party.

It seems to me that the BC First Party has a fresh start, has some support because of the HST, and if handled properly could give us a boni fide alternative to the Liberals and the NDP. If not them, then who????

It is not about bringing the 90's NDP into power again. It is about the circulation
of power from one party to "a different party" and making sure that if the party in power doesn't do the job and listen to the people, we kick them immediately out of power before they cause a lot of damage and replace them with another party.

We should have kicked out the Liberals
out of power in 2005 or 2009 and replaced them with NDP, for the sake of democracy and circulation of power.

Look south of the border for some lessons in circulation of power.

Thankfully Gord has seen the light. He is damaged beyond repair and any future for the party requires a new leader and hopefully he/she will have learned from Campbells errors. #1 lying before an election will cost you reguardless of party. #2 imposing structural changes to anything with no mandate will cost you.
#3 MLA's that follow the party line to the letter over constituancy concerns will lose there jobs.
BC rail, HST, Carbon taxes and now turning BC into a police state. No mandate for any of this, and now, the NDP have life where they should be dead. Many positive things the Liberals have done(and there are many) will be overshadowed by these issues.

Well i for one will never forget the pains i and this province suffered under the NDP..so lets not go backwards and look at them again!

Regardless of what is said.Libs did turn bc around and we once again became a have and not a have not province under its leadership.

Today may be a fresh beginning i don't know, however, the prior govenment must not be forgotten...I voted them out and have supported the libs ...

Depending on whom the next leader of the lib party gets apointed, i may not even vote! "Pat Bell would be a good choice" keep him. As well as the other well no comment.

It would be the first time that i never exercised my right to vote ..but there is no other choices that i would go with..Greens will set us back 100 years imo..time for a reform party...

Yes slim it sure is a sad day for northerners. We still have 2 MLAs' that still believe that the H.S.T. is a good thing. I'm sure that the voters will do the right thing and get rid of pat Bell and Shirley Bond and make it a much happier day once again in northern B.C. We need a different party in B.C. one that does things for B.C. That is not to say that the liberals didn't do some good things for British Colombians. But we just don't trust a government that lies and sells our B.C. rail out from under our hard working asses!! I hope the next Government will give the money that the liberals took from the elderly back to them so they may have some quality of life.

Gordo's caucus turfed him. The liberal party is not dead, they just culled the worst part. Good bye Gordo, don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out!!

Here we go!!!!!

You see when the electorate says no to the H.S.T. that should indicate there is something wrong. Then you should send your M.L.A.'s out among the people that elected them and ask "What is wrong with the H.S.T." Can you guess what the answer would be--. My first guess is it taxes the many poor and gives to the few rich. Selling P.G. Rail is a dirty thing to do to any group of people as they were showing a profit in thed work they were doing. If you were to help them to become more profitable I would become one of your advocates and say good things about the liberals. The liberals are about showing how much profit that they can put on the books and neglecting the working people.

Our province is a much BETTER place as a result of Mr. Campbell.

We all need to look at the bigger picture and realize where we are given the circumstances that he had to deal with. The NDP legacy, the U.S. and World meltdown. I do not think anyone could have done better. But I do think he needed to resign - his expiry date (like all politicians) in up.

Thanks to the government, we barely felt the recession when compared to other jurisdictions.

Some of the naysayers on this site and others tend to focus solely on the negative. Gord's opponents freely criticize but have yet to come with with the solutions that actually work. Yes, we all want more services and less taxes - but Mrs James and her colleagues have not given us a solution....and I have no hope that they could govern. They are great critics in holding the government to account, but to run the province is another thing.....and we had better realize that now or we will be complaining very very loudly in the future.

NDP governments do not have a good track record in this province. The only reason the party gets in is because people want a change. Most of the electorate is not voting for your party - but for change which in all political arenas is what is sold - but rarely materializes.

I no longer cast my vote on "hope" which is peddled freely in Canada and USA. My vote is based on listening to real solutions.

Any politician (liberal or NDP)that peddles
hope without a real plan needs to be avoided like the plaque, they are selling snake oil.


History will be very, very kind to Gordon.

Our province is a much BETTER place as a result of Mr. Campbell.

We all need to look at the bigger picture and realize where we are given the circumstances that he had to deal with. The NDP legacy, the U.S. and World meltdown. I do not think anyone could have done better. But I do think he needed to resign - his expiry date (like all politicians) in up.

Thanks to the government, we barely felt the recession when compared to other jurisdictions.

Some of the naysayers on this site and others tend to focus solely on the negative. Gord's opponents freely criticize but have yet to come with with the solutions that actually work. Yes, we all want more services and less taxes - but Mrs James and her colleagues have not given us a solution....and I have no hope that they could govern. They are great critics in holding the government to account, but to run the province is another thing.....and we had better realize that now or we will be complaining very very loudly in the future.

NDP governments do not have a good track record in this province. The only reason the party gets in is because people want a change. Most of the electorate is not voting for your party - but for change which in all political arenas is what is sold - but rarely materializes.

I no longer cast my vote on "hope" which is peddled freely in Canada and USA. My vote is based on listening to real solutions.

Any politician (liberal or NDP)that peddles
hope without a real plan needs to be avoided like the plaque, they are selling snake oil.


History will be very, very kind to Gordon.

From the BC First site come these words on the home page:

Delaney says ... "That amount of money for government can be recovered by cancelling a few unnecessary projects, such as the roof on BC Place stadium and/or other equivalent waste.”

Don't we all just love people who are not rooted in the real world. Another pie in the sky politician in the making.

I wish his party luck. Looks like the NDP should be a bit concerned.

Wow!I would like what LoveTheNorth is smokin or drinking.That is the problem with some liberal supporters,they can never see things for what they really are.At least I can admit that the NDP of the nineties were for the most part,terrible and actually voted for Paul Nettleton in 2001,but after the BC Rail sale I had to vote NDP in 2005,and because of Campbell and the carbon tax,I had to vote NDP in 2009.I won't vote Liberal until Pat Bell and Shirley Bond are gone as well.

From the same site:

"An expose by Boundary Sentinel blogger Laila Yuile reveals that the BC Government signed a contract with the S2S Transportation Group – the builder of the newly renovated Sea to Sky Highway – requiring BC to pay a hidden “shadow toll” on that highway for the next 25 years.

That means people in Fort St. John, Cranbrook, Prince Rupert and even in the Okanagan where they had a direct toll on the Coquihalla Highway for over 20 years, are paying to subsidize Vancouverites to drive to their chalets in Whistler. It is unbelievable that everyone else must ‘pay as they go’ except the friends and insiders of Gordon Campbell’s Liberal party.”

It's a Public-Private Partnership. The same as many of the other large projects are being paid for.

The Cariboo connector is being paid for by those going to their chalets in Whistler and those several millions living in the GVRD .... and even those people in Cranbrookl and Fernie.

How stupid is this party? Trying to make the same kind of nonsense hay as everyone else. And we have to put up with that rhetoric and try to dig deep to see why these people are really in the game.

I look forward the the day when we can vote a party IN, as apposed to voting a party OUT. Sadly that day doesn't look like it will come very soon.

Hey Andy:
Same things were said when the NDP ship sank.
Same routine different leader and party.
So, what's new.
We still don't have a viable alternative.

Our province is a much BETTER place as a result of Mr. Campbell.

We all need to look at the bigger picture and realize where we are given the circumstances that he had to deal with. The NDP legacy, the U.S. and World meltdown. I do not think anyone could have done better. But I do think he needed to resign - his expiry date (like all politicians) in up.

Thanks to the government, we barely felt the recession when compared to other jurisdictions.

Some of the naysayers on this site and others tend to focus solely on the negative. Gord's opponents freely criticize but have yet to come with with the solutions that actually work. Yes, we all want more services and less taxes - but Mrs James and her colleagues have not given us a solution....and I have no hope that they could govern. They are great critics in holding the government to account, but to run the province is another thing.....and we had better realize that now or we will be complaining very very loudly in the future.

NDP governments do not have a good track record in this province. The only reason the party gets in is because people want a change. Most of the electorate is not voting for your party - but for change which in all political arenas is what is sold - but rarely materializes.

I no longer cast my vote on "hope" which is peddled freely in Canada and USA. My vote is based on listening to real solutions.

Any politician (liberal or NDP)that peddles
hope without a real plan needs to be avoided like the plaque, they are selling snake oil.


History will be very, very kind to Gordon.

Love The North seems to have a bit of a repetitive problem. Perhaps he could do the same post for a fourth time. 4 times the BS methinks