So she is gonna stop the HST.... I bet she gets bought out.

NDP being elected in Northern BC? Not by miners or mine owners who remember they all had to go to to Chile to mine while the dippers were anti-mining last term. When it comes to Lois Boone being NDP, I hope all mining communities remember.

A couple of points Harbinger (of doom perhaps)

Can you separate federal and provincial parties Harbinger? The federal NDP is not the same nor does it have the same policies as the NDP did 10 years ago. Can you agree that Lois Boone has as much of a chance of influencing Jack Layton as my grandmother? If she ever got in she would be a back-bencher at best.

I agree the NDP was not very pro mining 10 years ago, but as I've written here before
tourism currently brings into bc as much as mining and forestry put together. Forestry can at least pretend to be sustainable. You've seen a mine site 50 years after the mines gone? Looks like the moon. Drive up the North road to Germansen Landing and look around while you're up there. A wasteland everywhere mining was.

As well, the longer a resource remains in the ground, the more its worth. And with mining, once its gone, its gone. You want your grand-kids to have a job in 20 years or do you want a new quad/sled/truck now? If the province had chased mining, which is the opposite of a sustainable industry, 15 years ago we'd have to not only worry about Kemess shutting down now but probably about a dozen others. Mining is like a rancher selling all his cows in the first year - looks great once.

We need more long term planning in this province, not just make a buck quick schemes like sell/lease BC rail. We need more people to question the lies big business and the press fed us about the NDP and their 'fudge-it' budget - total over two years 835 million. Three MLA's were sued by 'private interests' and had those suites thrown out of court.

The liberals have balanced the budget only 50 percent of the time in the last 10 years, 5 years of negative balances, or fudged budgets. And Colin Hansen? In the red for 2 billion this year. We were shown a dog and pony show and we fell for it. Twice.

Finally, my dad was a miner. We were always moving around from one mine to another. Its part and parcel of the job.

So I hope all communities look at what a great legacy the liberals are leaving us.

And for the record - not NDP or Liberal. Just an open-minded, questioning citizen who wishes a real political party would stand up for us middle-class, center of the road, citizens.