Liberals’ problems compounded by their secrecy
I found this interesting article from the Vancouver Sun via NDP MLA Maurine Karagianis’ Facebook page.
Interesting because I remember the B.C. Liberals promissing not to cut services if they formed the government back when they were in opposition. I think they promissed to be more transparrent too.
Tags: BC Liberals, BC NDP, cuts to services, Facebook, lies, Maurine Karagianis
I’ve Moved
It’s occured to me that I never posted anything on here about my recent move. So to those readers who are unaware, I am no longer a New Democrat blogging from the Conservative heartland of Calgary Alberta. Now I’m blogging from the conservative heartland of Kelowna British Columbia. I moved back to my hometown at the end of August.
You may have noticed a few changes in the site since then. Nothing major. You may also notice more topics regarding B.C. now and fewer about Alberta.
Tags: Alberta, British Columbia, Calgary, Kelowna, moving
Rahim Jaffer charged with impaired driving, possession of cocaine
The Conservative Party 0f Canada: “Tough on crime, except when we do it.“
Tags: attack ads, Conservative, Conservative Party of Canada, Conservatives, crime, drugs, impaired driving, Rahim Jaffer
Liberals try to duck blame for HST
I ran across this column in The Province via bcndp.ca. It seems the HST is so unpopular in B.C. that even the B.C. Liberals are distancing themselves from it.
Polls are showing massive opposition to the HST, with 85 per cent opposed, and 71 per cent strongly opposed.
Liberals try to duck blame for HST
Consumers hit by brutal attack during recessionEven a Catholic nun in full habit was leaning on her car horn as Surrey motorists expressed their disgust during Thursday’s road-rage rally against Gordon Campbell’s HST.
Yup, rosary beads will be subject to the consumer tax grab when it kicks in next year. But it seems to me Campbell is the one who should be saying his prayers: Anger over this thing is growing faster than an Okanagan wildfire.
If you want to know how freaked out the politicians are by the backlash, check out how none of them will admit to dealing this mess in the first place.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper was asked about the 12-per-cent harmonized sales tax during a swing through Victoria this week. His answer: “This is a decision of the provincial government. They are ultimately responsible for adopting that decision and explaining that decision to British Columbians.”
Which is kind of like Bart Simpson’s classic “It wasn’t me” line whenever he gets caught red-handed.
Don’t forget a key reason the Campbell government jumped on the HST was because the Harper government dangled a $1.6-billion “transition payment” in front of their noses.
Harper is right, though, that nobody forced British Columbia to pull this stunt, even with all the federal leg-humping. Despite that, some of Campbell’s MLAs want you to believe it’s all a federal plot.
“Richmond East MLA Linda Reid said it’s clear Prime Minister Stephen Harper wants the HST,” the Richmond Review newspaper reported Thursday.
“There’s no win in holding out,” the Liberal deputy speaker lamented. Ah, the devil made me do it!
Meanwhile, as the blame game rages, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that the Campbell government is now reduced to shooting the messenger.
That’s right, folks: It was the Liberals who insisted before the election that the HST was a bad tax and they weren’t going anywhere near it — only to break their promise once they got back into power. But it’s the media’s fault that people are so upset about it all.
“The coverage that has come out over this last week and a half has been focused purely on the negative side,” said Finance Minister Colin Hansen.
“We have to get a lot more information out to the public about how this is good for British Columbia.”
Uh-oh. You know what that means: Get set for the ad campaign.
It will be more of your money down the drain on government propaganda. But I doubt it will change many people’s minds about this brutal attack on consumers in the middle of the worst recession in a generation.
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Tags: BC Liberals, BC NDP, British Columbia, Colin Hansen, Gordon Campbell, HST, Linda Reid, Stephen Harper
Top Bush aides tried to sway ’04 vote
Former U. S. homeland security chief Tom Ridge charges in a new book that top aides to then-president George W. Bush pressured him to raise the “terror alert” level to sway the Nov. 2004 U. S. election.
Is anyone surprised?
