Good one Ben!

That's a knee-slapper, Ben ... one of your best!

It isn't often we get a chuckle out of B.C.'s political events these days. Thanks for that.

I'm still hoping for a Public Inquiry into how BC Rail slid from public ownership into private pockets ... but first, how do we safeguard the trial documents which will form the basis of a Public Inquiry ... rumour has it that these are slated for immediate destruction when, silly me, I thought destruction of evidence is illegal.

Ask Kevin Falcon? Hmmmm.

http://bctrialofbasi-virk.blogspot.com

You mean he didn't take credit for the $9 million over budget weigh scale they built just outside of town??? Strange?

Nice to see that I am not the only one wanting the inquiry B.C.Mary!
Keep digging,and thanks!
One day,a little bird is going to start singing and I suspect it will be a virtual aria that goes on for a very long time!

It certainly looks like Kevin has a real good handle on how to spend the public's money. Don't see a lot of free enterprise projects in the list. I am not sure he should be real proud of the airport run way. A total of 2 or 3 planes have landed that needed that run way and it is probably costing the taxpayer 1/2 million bucks a year for the staff trying promote its use.
Maybe Kevin should take credit for the school closures, the HST, increased hydro rates, etc.
Falcon is nothing more than just another Campbell clone.

Hold your horses Ben,

The ad wasn't placed by Falcon. It was placed by a third party lobby group. I would bet a dollar that Falcon never even knew the ad was being run.

We live in a free society. Anyone in the public can say anything they want (as we've seen on this site).

If you're going to start tar and feathering, start with the people placing the ad.

I thought the picture they used was quite flattering....wouldn't mind seeing one with the aforementioned tar and feathers either.

lets see, Falcon before getting into politics runs a public relations company.
Do you think the people writing up the advertisment wouldnt ask their man about the ad before they published it, and furthermore wouldnt Falcon see the pitch on the Web .
no this is a classic case of pick me, pick me, I'm your reluctant candidate.

I agree billm...Falcon comes across like he is our savior and nobody can do it but him.
He acts like he has no choice..he MUST do this for us!
He is arrogant,to say the least!
These suedo-Liberals are pretty damn sure they have a god-given right to govern and save us from ourselves!
Like the rest of the Campbell gang,they speak to us like we were children, with virtually no understanding of how it all works.
Fortunately,over 2 terms with this government,people have gotten a lot better at spotting pure,unadulterated bullsh**t!

Middleground wrote: "The ad wasn't placed by Falcon"

And what lead you to believe that Ben wrote that it was? Please re-read Ben's article.

However, that is my very question. Who did put it together, as well as the web page? Did Falcon know about it? The author (person or group) is actually not identified.

Did Falcon leap tall buildings with one giant leap?

Well, according to his official legislative page, he did!

http://www.leg.bc.ca/mla/39thParl/falconk.htm
It reads, in part, as follows: "Minister Falcon has previously OVERSEEN a capital program that includes the Kicking Horse Canyon, the Sea to Sky Highway and the William Bennett Bridge, among many others."

Shortly we will likely see and update that shosw Falcon overseeing the contruction of the Cancer Clinic here.

Here is Shirley's page, as a for instance:
http://www.leg.bc.ca/mla/39thParl/bondS.htm
Does anyone read the school constructions he has OVERSEEN? Or anything of that nature at all?

If Falcon in interested in credibility at all, he needs to curb his supporteres a bit becuase most people, when it comes right down to it, do not like boastful people I have found.

And Ben is bang on with the Coquihalla fiasco. There is nothing in there that indicates that the government was going to keep the toll on the highway. Of course, Falcon would have to take or be given credit for that as well.

If anyone knows anything different about Falcon with respect to that example, such as that he stood up in Cabinet, pounded the table, and said that the government would have to do that over his dead body, please let us know.

I do believe when the economy was beginning to go downhill,an MLA stood up in the legislature and pointed out the fact that forestry workers in the North were losing there jobs at alarming rates and needed the governments help.To this (and I may be wrong),but I believe it was Kevin Falcon that stood up and responded by saying "loggers or forestry workers could go to hell.

A number of people,particularly lower mainlanders,will remember Kevin Falcon and the Eagle Bluff fiasco, when they started re-building the Sea to Sky.
There was a pretty strong protest to save a beautiful area, and of course the government won.
All for the Olympics,even though the Liberal government said the Sea to Sky upgrade had nothing to do with the Olympics?
They also did not include the many millions spent in the cost of the Olympics'
Ya, right.
Kevin Falcon showed just how much of a tyrant and a bully he really was with that mess.
You could see him on the news constantly, and he looked and sounded like a mini-dictator.
He was fuming!
The area the government destroyed was a unique ecological system,not that it mattered to Falcon.
Protestors were actually arrested and hauled away after a several weeks of standing their ground.
Some went to the slammer,as Falcon said they would.
Sometimes things and people are not quite what they seem, or want you to believe.

jakeadoo, you might be referring to Falcon’s response of “boo hoo” to Doug Routley’s comments about the state of the natural resource based industries in BC – Hansard morning sitting of Thursday, February 14, 2008 http://www.leg.bc.ca/hansard/38th4th/H0214am-03.pdf

go down to page 9669 and you will find this:

He was interrupted by Falcon after the following words:
“That government's responsibility is to British Columbia, to its people, to its forests, to its water, to its fish — all of which it has abandoned piece by piece. We hear about no-net-loss forestry. No net loss from when — today?

Go take a look at my constituency, Madam Speaker. I'll take you up there, and we'll take a look at some river valleys that have been denuded by the lack of oversight that this government allowed on private lands.|

Hon. K. Falcon: Boo hoo

D. Routley: The Transportation Minister says: "Boo hoo." He says: "Yeah, boo hoo." Will the minister say "boo hoo" to my constituents? The minister says yes, he'll say "boo hoo" to my constituents, who have suffered the loss of their schools, their trees, their sawmills and their jobs under this government and that minister.

Let's take a look at their record. The Premier said that in ten years, there would be four to six new small-log mills on the coast. As well, a revitalized coastal industry will help secure the needs of the pulp and paper sector and leverage additional investment in these facilities — none of which has happened. The opposite has occurred. That is a failure of policy.

The people who supported them were their donors, who had donated over $1.2 million to their party. That was Interfor, TimberWest and Weyerhaeuser. In 2003 Interfor had 38 logging operations. Now they're all contracted out. They had six sawmills. Now they have two mills. They had TFLs and forest lands. They've sold most of that. TimberWest had six logging operations. They're all contracted out. They had one mill. Now they have one TFL. They had two TFLs. Now they have no sawmills.

…………………. What else wasn't mentioned in the throne speech, one might ask. Well, I'll answer: ferries. Ferry fares. Can you imagine a government that over four years could oversee more than 100 percent increases in ferry fares on our small runs? This is unbelievable.

Hon. K. Falcon: Boo hoo.

D. Routley: Unbelievable. A Transportation Minister who does his boo hoo act again.
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And this is the guy who wants to help the north? Seems Campbell wore a lumberjack shirt to try to win the north. Wonder waht Falcon's gimmick is going to be.

I must say, decorum in the US House of Representatives is much higher than we find in Canada.