I agree with Ben...neither party is ready for an election, and they don't want one anytime soon, if they can avoid it.
Christy Clark is only begining to hear the embarrassing questions in regards to B.C. and her role.
And rightly so.
She has far too many skeletons rattling around in her closet.
She should have thought of that before she ran, and she may end up regreting her decision to jump into the ring.
It's going to get a lot worse for her, and Falcon as well.
He isn't answering any question either.
The Liberals are trying to run with the old guard,and the unanswered questions are going to defeat them from the inside out.
Do they really think we are that easy to pull a snow job on?
Obviously they do.
The NDP is mess,and considering what is happening inside the party,it only shows just how loose Carole Jame's leadership really was.
Again,they should have dealt with these issues a long time ago.
After two election defeats,regardless of the reasons,she should have been removed as leader.
They had to know this was going to happen, and if they didn't,someone was not doing their job.
Letting Sihota out of the basement was a huge faux pas for them.
He has too much baggage and a reputation for complete dishonesty.
Again,do they really think the voters are that easy to scam?
What a mess!

There are those that think voter turnout isnt important well I think it is.

"Unless we take an interest in those who govern us we shall be governed by those worse then ourselves" Plato the Republic.
Cheers

Agreed Retired 02!
Never understood how people who don't vote, think it is a solution to bad government?
One of the last great democratic rights we have left is the right to vote.
Unfortunately,bad government loves it when people don't do that!

Why would voters 'turnout' when ALL the choices you have to vote for are now offering exactly the same thing?

The coming byword will be "austerity". That's what those who control the purse-strings want, globally, and that's exactly what EVERY Party that runs candidates is going to offer. And we're expected to go to a polling booth and mark our ballots to agree with THEIR choice? So THEY can then tell us that's what WE wanted?

Now we had "austerity" once, here in BC, under that name and not in the guise of something different. It took place in the early 1980's, under former so-called "Social Credit" Party Premier Bill Bennett. It was a dismal failure.

You remember THAT Bill Bennett, the former Premier? The "tough guy", as his staff has since made out he was. The same staff that led him around on a short leash like he didn't have an operating brain in his head. The few times he managed to find himself in a spot where he could speak freely, he demonstrated that he did ~ and actually 'connected' with the average British Columbian. But his "handlers" moved quickly then, to get their collar back on him again.

Norman Spector, David Emerson, Bob Plecas ~ the high-priced help imported from Ontario's "Big Blue Machine" style of politics. So ably aided by our then home grown BC Liberal caucus who'd pulled a reverse takeover of the original BC Social Credit League, and converted it into a mini-version of what we've now witnessed for the last 10 years. Only now back under its far more appropriate "Liberal" moniker. The synomonous title for corruption, and sleaze, and dirty tricks ~ a name which is the ONLY honest thing about it.

These guys weren't in the slightest way affected by "austerity". Their immediate underlings, the only slightly less "high-priced help" at the upper echelons of the Civil Service, were rewarded by how many people that actually "worked" for the government ~ more often than not at a wage that certainly wasn't in any way "high priced" ~ providing actual 'services' to me and thee, that they could terminate.

It resulted in such brilliant polices as "Sympathetic Administration" in our forest industries. Where stands of old growth timber were high-graded, not by just falling the best and removing the best, but by clear cutting, creaming the best, and leaving the rest to rot.

Perfectly good timber, the like of which we'll never see again. Not even pulled out to the roadside, where it could've been salvaged later, but left right where it was felled. Is it any wonder the whole ditz-brained, Save-the-Ancient-Forests-cut no-trees-at-all enviros got such a boost with an equally ditz-brained government policy like that?

Then there that mini-scandal when it was finally discovered numerous shiploads of TFL logs were exported from one of the major Companies' dry land sort without even being scaled, the ranks of the Forest Service being thinned so much by "austerity" that they couldn't properly police what was going on.

And now we're to be treated to the 21st Century's version of that? And are expected to approve it? Which we'll do by "turning out", whether we intend to or not, because wherever you put that "X" you're going to get exactly the same thing.

As I see it, right now there's ONE visible faint hope that we may still avoid such a fate. IF, and it's a very big IF, Corky Evans were to run for the NDP's leadership, and IF that Party's membership had enough brains to elect him as their leader, we just MIGHT avoid the fate in store for us. Otherwise, our "turning out" in greater numbers in future is merely going to be a continual exercise in futility regarding any meaningful changes.

Don't look for a "third Party" to save the day. You're not going to find one, not amongst the current crop of hopeful wanna-be's.

I agree Corky Evans would be a bonus,but I doubt that is going to happen,socredible!
Too bad,because I think he could galvanize the party.
And you're right on the 3rd. party thing.
Ain't gonna be any options there!
I also see Gordon Wilsons name being tossed around a lot,but I doubt the Liberal old guard will ever let anyone from the outside get in...especially him.
So where would he run?
Christy Clark...not that she is any better than the rest of them, is likely to go down in flames,was well.
This lady is walking bullsh**t and I think people are starting to figure that out.
Only a matter of time,and the Liberal mafia can assasinate her anytime they want,I am sure.
They all have too many dirty secrets to keep, and that includes Falcon!
In the Liberal mind,they cannot afford to lose this one!
Should be interesting to see who goes down in flames!
The knives will come out soon,in both the Liberal party AND the NDP!

I was never impressed with Gordon Wilson. I don't think he ever had anything worthwhile to offer, in any of the Parties he led or aspired to lead.

Corky Evans is the only politician of the current era whose ever made a point of raising an old and original Social Credit idea regarding having the government itself produce a "Balance Sheet", same as any other business would have.

That's a proposal that's literally light-years ahead of any of the mush any of the Liberal leadership hopefuls have come up with, and almost certainly any of the supposed New Democrat leadership aspirants will either.

The BC Social Credit Party never acted on that idea directly when it was in office. But it did so indirectly by the transference of many government owned assets into various Crown corporations and authorities. Which all had "Balance Sheets", and could then be managed properly using generally accepted accounting principles.

As it stands now, all we ever see or hear about are the government's Liabilities. What it ~ WE, really ~ owes. We never see a valuation of the Assets, nor any figures that correspond to OUR Equity. Our equal "ownership" of the body corporate known as "British Columbia".

If BC is being properly managed our collective Assets should continually be exceeding our collective Liabilities, same as is the case in any other business. And we are told, often, particularly by those on the 'right' side of the political spectrum, and now not any more disputed by those on the 'left', that the "...government is just like any other business..." when it comes to its finances.

Fine. Lets take those who say they know at their word, but if this is truly so then produce a set of accounts "...just like any other business." That should be VERY revealing.