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I expect a bit better from the NDP Government
December 6, 2012 - 6:01pm
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/story/2012/11/26/mb-lake-st-marti...
No resolution after 1 1/2 years??!!
You expect better from the NDP government?
Someone clearly doesn't live in Mantioba...
All of us should expect better from our governments, regardless of who runs what. However, on the left side of it, demanding more is a function of democracy. On the right, demanding less is the scum on the pond of Tory politics.
Here in Manitoba these guys talk progressive but govern like Libs. Doer did this to the party. This is not the party of Ed Schreyer and Howard Pauley. If the Tories were in charge, they'd tell you Lake St. Martin was the name of a street in the South Part of the city.
Nah. They govern more like Red Tories.
Re: the thread title: Don't we all. Heh.
Too bad you wouldn't expect the same from your federal government. In that case thought it would have to be A LOT MORE!
I expect nothing but depravity, spit, and contempt from the Harper CON Government. With the Manitoba NDP, though, you'd expect when their rational electoral self-interest aligns with the right thing, they'd do it.
The Manitoba NDP won some Interlake ridings thanks, in a large part, to aboriginal voters. I've even met people from the Interlake reserves who talked about how the campaigning NDP talked the good talk about dealing with the aftermath of the breach on flooded out reserves, yet were disappointed after the party failed to deliver. This sort of inaction when it comes to aboriginal rights is suicidal stupidity for a (nominally) centre-left party in Manitoba.
Guess who wants to raise shelter allowances for people on social assistance?
It's not surprising. People on welfare generally have to give/pay their money to people who would support conservatives thus increasing welfare rates increases incomes for some people, slum lords, shopping stores, etc. After 13 years of NDP in BC it was the Liberals that actually raised the welfare rates. Of course that was offset by making the system hard to access.
I'm not on welfare, and I'm pretty sure I pay most of the money I earn to people who would tend to support the conservatives. Small business owners, big business owners, banks and landlords. Simply because I shop at places other than the Mondragon. So what?
I think it's more of a sign that the NDP have this big blind spot on welfare rates, and have allowed rates to stagnate for so long that it's gotten so bad that it's not just people like Make Poverty History that are seeing it as a problem.
Perhaps when an allegedly left-wing party's social assistance policies are to the right of the Conservatives and the Chamber of Commerce, it's time to re-evaluate something.