Didn't Smither elect an NDP?

Get the NDP to speak about what a bad job the government is doing and how the NDP would show the mining people who's the boss - like the last time the NDP was in power.

"In the early 1990s the property was acquired by Royal Oak Mines which brought the mine into production in 1998."

The quote above is taken from the Kemess North web site at http://www.infomine.com/minesite/minesite.asp?site=kemess

The site was developed during the time the NDP was the government. Has another mine opened since that one did? No?

Then I guess the NDP has a better record towards mining than the Liberal government of today, doesn't it?

It's easy to throw bull dung at the side of a barn in hopes some will stick, but the facts are different.

Gordo is there for a free lunch, most of his cabinet members have no idea where Smithers is and for him, the north means nothing except cheap hydro and taxes.

Hopefully the conference will be of assistance to starting the mining ball rolling because, for all the hype that the government is putting out about mining being a priority, there doesnt seem to be much actually happening

"It's easy to throw bull dung at the side of a barn in hopes some will stick, but the facts are different."

Same thing is going at present with NDPers throwing bull dung at everything the Liberal government says, does, plans or proposes.

I am not a Liberal, but I am certainly glad that in spite of some their obvious missteps the province is still better of and in a vastly more improved condition than it ever was under the NDP - except for the first couple of years of NDP rule when the province was still profiting from the fact that the NDP took over a number #1 in fine shape province, soon to be dead last!

Most of the cabinet ministers have no idea where Smithers is? Name them, please, and how you conducted the survey that led you to such a conclusion.

If you can't, you may consider backing off from throwing fertilizer.

Dip-lomat Your choice of words and what you see is much better.Pretty soon you won't Get to vote from the north or at least it will not count. And I am sure your liberals don't have the Province in debt at all. And why do you need the cabinet ministers named for you. Do you Know which ones can find Smithers.

The NDP doubled the debt in 10 years and the present government inherited it. That, of course, is something we are not supposed to remember.

Unlike you, I have a higher opinion of all MLAs elected by us to represent us in Victoria - all of them know where Smithers is.

I never mentioned my pinion of MLA's. I also rememeber the NDP uncovering a hidden debt. I did say you name the ones that know where Smithers is, like you said to ammonra. And do you feel the MLA's you voted in are representing us very well

Plus when the Liberals took over they turned a 1.5 Billion dollar surplus into a multi-billion dollar deficit. In fact, this Liberal government under Campbell is responsible for the single biggest deficit this province has ever seen in it's whole history. Then they gave the money away to friends.

Way to go, and no bull!

I never mentioned that I voted in any of the MLA's that are representing us. The one that was elected in my riding is the typical B.C. MLA.

He is representing the riding within the confines of the agenda of his party - not too well, not to badly. Just like the rest of them, no matter what party. None of them, neither now nor before dared to *step out of line* and upset the apple cart.

The NDP is very good at *uncovering a hidden debt.* But it was even better at hiding debts and calling them surpluses which did not materialize later.

Ammonra: "Then they gave the money away to friends."

If one really believes that and if one has the evidence to prove it one has the duty to call the RCMP because it would be a criminal act.

"It's easy to throw bull dung at the side of a barn in hopes some will stick, but the facts are different."

Amen to that.

Ammonra
can you say BCR
If the government and the business it is dealing with commit a crime against the people and the future of the province is it still a crime?

Sorry that was meant for Diplomat

It was all done legally through the tax system, but it was still a giveaway!

It was done legally but it was done by breaking an election promise - not something everyone finds acceptable, including me. It was sold for cash. And the debt of the BCR was retired with some of that cash.

Every time we vote for somebody we get surprises and broken promises. One NDP premier nilly-willy took away a timber license from a Prince George business and gave it away (a giveaway!) to a native nation to enjoy and benefit from.

It was determined to be illegal in a court of law and damages had to be paid by the province to the injured private business.

Was it criminal? Well, perhaps it was just a mistake that needed to be corrected and it was.

Some people thought it was more serious than that.

If the NDP had been in power we would have:

1. moved industry to a new industrial park outside the bowl

2. moved the MoF and MoE head offices to PG in a move to decentralize government operations

3. obtain 10% of our energy requirements from wind, solar and geothermal sources

4. held the Winter Olympics in Kamloops

5. have an ethanol plant in place in PG, Houston, Quesnel and Fort St. John

6. have a biomass energy plant in place in Quesnel, PG and Houston.

7. have a ring road near completion in PG and Quesnel

8. completed the 4 laning of HWY97 between PG and Quesnel.

9. have a research park with tenants in place at UNBC

10. have the solar waffer plant which was built in Germany in place as the primary tenant in the research park

11. have a Chinese trade mission office in PG

12. provide northern municipal infratructure maintenance funds for cities such as PG to catch up to the backlog of poorly maintained roads and other infrastructure.

13. through a reclaim the urban riverfronts program have completed a project to provide better security from flooding due to spring runoffs and ice jams.

14. have grown the PG city population by 2.5% per year over the last 5 years. and the northern region population by 1.5% per year.

15. Have had 2 sequential years in PG without an air quality advisory and be the poster child of Canada in how to turn air quality issues around.

Just to mention a few .....

;-)

As they say, Rome was not built in a day. But countries have rebuilt much of their infrastructure after 20 years.

There has to be the will of the people to do it and the participation of everyone pulling in the same direction. If that is not there, one will not go very far.

Owl, I think you know that even the BC Liberals could not afford that list of 15 projects. Some people like ammo might read your list and get all excited and believe it! Heehee!

You still have to have money to do things, either from private, taxes or borrowed money. The NDP credit rating was going down so fast they looked like the Enron of governments. Private industry and capital had put the breaks on in BC or gone elsewhere. We already had enough tax increases that the suicide rate was so high everyone knew someone that had killed themselves. We are after all only people.

I still don't see any rational for the government to own choo-choo trains, or airlines or Tim Hortin's or mines or farms or hotels or ships or pool halls. Regulate them and that is good enough.

Owl would like Venezuela, they nationalized all the oil. Lots of rich people in Caracus and no poverty. I wonder if the people of BC would agree and like to switch for those kinds of MLA's?

Wasn't that promise/wish list once part of the platform of the Rhinoceros Party of Canada? Had we voted them in they also would have built the promised glass dome over downtown Prince George to keep the snow off the streets! Mind you, heated sidewalks were a brainwave too - to burn wood waste to heat water and melt the white stuff instead of shoveling it...

Yama has the right approach in my opinion - the government has the power to regulate businesses and if used wisely it would be more beneficial than government trying to run everything according to some political agenda or burning political ideology, no matter what the negative consequences.