"A political storm that began in British Columbia is now blowing ugly in three of Canada's higher-profile provinces, its winds fuelled by voter disgust over being used, abused and played as fools.

And it's about time, because there is more than just a whiff of contempt in the air."

http://www.ottawasun.com/comment/editorial/2010/11/19/16227501.html

Maybe this will be the chance for the Flying Spaghetti Monster Party to take wings, so to speak.

Thanks for the article link, Charles.

I prefer the following quote from the article.
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"Only an idiot would now think being Campbell's replacement is a wise career move.

"So far no idiot has openly applied."
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I think BC is still in a better position than Ontario (linked far too close to the USA economy) and Quebec (still too dependent on government handouts).

Alberta is an interesting province. They have still not managed to properly ride the ups and downs of the oil patch economy to smooth the hills and valleys out. In other words, sustainable is not a word they understand. The deficits were projected a couple of years ago. The advantage they have that not a single other province has is that the probability of oil bailing them out again is extremely high. The hope for both Alberta and Canada is that one of these days they will figure out what will bring them longer term sustainability and act accordingly.

BC, on the other hand, has far more diverse riches than Alberta will likely ever have. We need to nurture those people, organizations, businesses and governments that already understand that means more than the resource extractive riches. And, more importantly, we need to develop others to join them and to follow in their footsteps.

We voted overwhelmingly conservative federally, its time to do the same provincially. Its time to admit we are conservative and realize conservative is not a dirty word.

"We voted overwhelmingly conservative federally"

Interesting observation and interpretation of the word "overwhelmingly". It used to be that meant not only more than 50%, but considerably more than 50%.

So which planet are you living on gamblor?

Putting that aside, however, I agree that it is time to admit that conservative is anot a dirty word, although it seems to have been in BC, otherwise the conservatives would not have had to hijack the BCLiberals from Gordon Wilson, who is not a Conservative, but a Liberal.

I say, let the true colours of the greens, the ndp, the liberals and the conservatives show openly and let's go to the polls with a better knowledge of who we are voting for! Bang on!

It will likely end up in a minority government, but we will likely be better off for it. Everyone will be much more accountable.

I think the time is ripe to form a real center party and pull some candidates away from both the NDP and the Liberals along with some new fresh faces. A known leader maybe not someone in provincial politics currently but that most voters recognize and you have a winner.

don`t you guys get it....look at it graphically.
the picture is just being re-arranged, much like a jig saw puzzle; only it is two dimensional.

this is all a publicity stunt for the politicians,lets see who can get more popularity!

I thought a jigsaw puzzle was two dimensional .... :-)

Graphically? .... I think Bennett's description of being so close to his face and being so mad, that he was spitting in his face was graphical enough for me .... Sounds like caucus was run like the local RCMP detachment a few years ago.

Nothing I dislike more than harassment at work, especially by those who are in a key leadership position and ought to know better. This is the 2010, not 1910.

"this is all a publicity stunt"

And you believe in Santa Claus still, right?

"the picture is just being re-arranged"

I think I am getting a different picture. The pciture I am getting is that the picture was never properly arranged in the first place, otherwise this would not happen. It was all smoke and mirrors.

I really do not think anyone knew what they were doing. They just went on with theior day to day business because they had the run of the House. As long as they got the House in order closer to the next election, hey, everything is cool. Plenty of time.

By 2013 the Chinese will be eating out of our hands, mining in BC will have hit the mother lode, we'll have pushed the privatization of medical services another few steps along, even the USA will be building houses again with our wood.

Life is rosey. :-)

gus, I love the internet because it makes it sooo easy to call someone's BS. Here are the election results for PG-Peace, since you seem to be on a mental vacation:

Hill, J CON 22,060 63.4%

Bekkering, B NDP 6,138 17.6%

Crowley, H GRN 3,656 10.5%

Gidney, L LIB 2,953 8.5%

By your own definition, 63.4% is "a good deal more than 50%" I want what you're smoking.

It will be found to be impossible for anyone to change the way government currently operates to make it meaningfully and signifigantly better for ALL, so long as WE do not control our own financial 'credit'.

At the present time, we've allowed those properly organised to ADMINISTER that credit, the banking system as a whole, to also claim "ownership" of that which they administer, but is not theirs, but rather a communal possession.

This results in THEIR , not OUR, ability to dictate POLICY. Which they do, and do in the primary interest of protecting and enhancing THEIR position of "ownership", and the control that goes with it.

Until that's recognised, and corrected, it won't matter a whit which Party we elect to office. They may come in with the best of intentions, but will invariably under-perform both in promise and potential.