Indeed, "votes over principles" should be in the BC NDP logo.
BC NDP Premier John Horgan has blossomed, is the real deal, and will win a majority government in 2020
Tue, 2020-02-11 18:37
#252
Tue, 2020-02-11 23:27
#253
swallow
"Reconciliation is hard work. It does not begin or end with a single decision, event or moment. No single one of us decides what reconciliation can or should look like. It is a shared journey we are on together."
"We know that this work isn't easy. If we're going to achieve it, we have to stay committed to this process, keep engaging with one another and find common ground."
Statement by Justin Trudeau, delivered through the mouth of his clone John Horgan. https://www.kamloopsmatters.com/local-news/bc-premier-john-horgans-statement-on-coastal-gaslink-protests-2086822
Tue, 2020-02-11 23:30
#254
swallow
"I respect everyone’s right to lawful protest but when you’re interfering with the operation of the economy at the ports and through the city here in the Lower Mainland I think that becomes a challenge."
John Horgan prioritizes smooth running of the economy over right to protest.
Time to abolish the NDP maybe.
Wed, 2020-02-12 01:18
#255
John Horgan prioritizes smooth running of the economy over right to protest.
Can you name an elected politician that doesn't?
Fri, 2020-02-14 12:50
#256
John Horgan prioritizes smooth running of the economy over right to protest.
Can you name an elected politician that doesn't?
The real truth is that if Horgan had run on a platform that included building Site C and expanding LNG with a subsidized pipeline they would not be the government. The BC Liberals would have won the election hands down with the Greens maybe holding a real balance of power.
He has no moral authority to spend this kind of social capital on our behalf because he did not campaign on it. The really sad and disgusting part is that if they had lost the election to a slim BC Lib majority all these fucking BC NDP assholes would be on the streets with the protestors.
Fri, 2020-02-14 13:06
#257
John Horgan prioritizes smooth running of the economy over right to protest.
Can you name an elected politician that doesn't?
The real truth is that if Horgan had run on a platform that included building Site C and expanding LNG with a subsidized pipeline they would not be the government. The BC Liberals would have won the election hands down with the Greens maybe holding a real balance of power.
He has no moral authority to spend this kind of social capital on our behalf because he did not campaign on it. The really sad and disgusting part is that if they had lost the election to a slim BC Lib majority all these fucking BC NDP assholes would be on the streets with the protestors.
On the other hand, the "business-friendly NDP" schtick helped with some voters.
Fri, 2020-02-14 13:50
#258
John Horgan prioritizes smooth running of the economy over right to protest.
Can you name an elected politician that doesn't?
The real truth is that if Horgan had run on a platform that included building Site C and expanding LNG with a subsidized pipeline they would not be the government. The BC Liberals would have won the election hands down with the Greens maybe holding a real balance of power.
He has no moral authority to spend this kind of social capital on our behalf because he did not campaign on it. The really sad and disgusting part is that if they had lost the election to a slim BC Lib majority all these fucking BC NDP assholes would be on the streets with the protestors.
On the other hand, the "business-friendly NDP" schtick helped with some voters.
Which is why the business-friendly approach won Carole James many elections against the BC Liberals, while after the modest left turn under Horgan the NDP got crushed.
Fri, 2020-02-14 15:32
#259
John Horgan prioritizes smooth running of the economy over right to protest.
Can you name an elected politician that doesn't?
The real truth is that if Horgan had run on a platform that included building Site C and expanding LNG with a subsidized pipeline they would not be the government. The BC Liberals would have won the election hands down with the Greens maybe holding a real balance of power.
He has no moral authority to spend this kind of social capital on our behalf because he did not campaign on it. The really sad and disgusting part is that if they had lost the election to a slim BC Lib majority all these fucking BC NDP assholes would be on the streets with the protestors.
On the other hand, the "business-friendly NDP" schtick helped with some voters.
Which is why the business-friendly approach won Carole James many elections against the BC Liberals, while after the modest left turn under Horgan the NDP got crushed.
I live in a Vancouver Island riding. The NDP did very well here and it was not because anyone wanted a BC Liberal lite party in power. My FB is full of older disgusted left wing activists who have not only voted but worked and donated to the BC NDP in the past. Horgan's demeaning putdown of the young activists has guaranteed his party will not do well with the youth on the left so they better win over the middle classes. The cabal that runs the party is gambling it can get some former BC Liberals to switch to them and that their own voters will hold their noses and vote the lesser of evils.
Fri, 2020-02-14 15:48
#260
Here's the 2017 NDP platform:
https://action.bcndp.ca/page/-/bcndp/docs/BC-NDP-Platform-2017.pdf
Christy Clark made her entire 2013 election campaign about LNG. Four years later, Christy Clark and the BC Liberals haven’t delivered a single major LNG project, and they allowed BC to be steamrolled in negotiations with big LNG companies. No LNG plants, no LNG jobs, no revenue to pay down debt, and bad deals that last decades into the future: that’s the Christy Clark legacy on LNG. This despite Christy Clark’s insistence that several LNG plants would be up and running by now. The ground hasn’t been broken on one project. Even if a plant were to open, the desperate BC Liberals signed sweetheart deals with LNG proponents that leave British Columbians without any real benefits. Unlike LNG agreements in Australia, Christy Clark’s bad deals make no mention of job guarantees for local British Columbians. Nor do they address the need to work respectfully with First Nations, or to meet our climate change commitments. While LNG can still represent a significant opportunity for BC, it won’t under Christy Clark. To ensure BC benefits, we will require LNG projects meet four conditions:
› Projects must offer jobs and training for British Columbians, especially jobs for local people.
› The people of BC must get a fair return for our resources.
› Projects must secure full partnerships with local First Nations.
Projects must complete a made-in-BC environmental assessment, and achieve the highest environmental standards while respecting our commitments to combating climate change.
Fri, 2020-02-14 16:14
#261
1 "Projects must offer jobs and training for British Columbians, especially jobs for local people."
There are some locals who will be hired however the jobs will not be in local communities but in construction camps with the same workforce moving with the camps. When the pipeline is built there will be no jobs along the pipeline route.
2 "The people of BC must get a fair return for our resources."
The numbers do not add up according to many economists and oil and gas anayists and we are currently under taxing the fracking industry and claiming we will tax them more in the future. How stupid to they think we are?
https://www.policyalternatives.ca/newsroom/news-releases/petronas-lng-ca...
3 "Projects must secure full partnerships with local First Nations."
I can see the loophole easily now. They have gotten consent of Indian Act First Nations and refused to deal with the chiefs who the SCC has ruled hold the ancestral rights to the territories not covered by the Indian Act. I apologize for being naive and believing that my MLA Scott Fraser was sincere about UNDRIP and indigenous rights since he personally was very vocal during the campaign about reconciliation.
3. Projects must complete a made-in-BC environmental assessment, and achieve the highest environmental standards while respecting our commitments to combating climate change.
I can only read this statement and weep. We are combatting climate change by fracking and exporting LNG.
Fri, 2020-02-14 16:19
#262
Left Turn
To ensure BC benefits, we will require LNG projects meet four conditions:
...
> Projects must secure full partnerships with local First Nations.
Because the Coastal Gaslink Pipeline route goes through unceded indigenous territories, the project would have to secure the full partnership of the Wet'Suwet'en hereditary chiefs in order to meet this condition. The Indian Act band councils that signed benefit agreements in support of the pipeline, only have juristiction over their Indian Act reserve territory.
So either John Horgan really doesn't understand how rights and title works when it comes to unceded indigenous territory, or he doesn't care. Ragardless, approving Coastal Gaslink was NOT in keeping with the conditions that the BC NDP put in their 2017 platform for LGN project approval. Assuming that those conditions were intended to be meaningful in the first place.
Fri, 2020-02-14 16:30
#263
..lets not forget that the bc ndp has been captured by the energy sector as was the alta ndp.
Fri, 2020-02-14 16:41
#264
This is my biggest hope for some sanity to prevail. In a capitalist system the Invisible Hand should be slapping down this project.
The longer this LNG Canada project and the Coastal GasLink pipeline are dragged out, the more it's going to cost these companies.
Given the state of international energy markets, who knows whether they will be able to afford to stay in the game until the very end. Unlike governments that are financing the Site C and Trans Mountain projects, the LNG Canada and Coastal GasLink backers have to answer to shareholders.
https://www.straight.com/news/1358561/flurry-pro-pipeline-indigenous-voi...
ETA This is the reason the Enron con men in Kinder Morgan cut and ran and sold out to a sucker before the true costs showed up on the balance sheet.
Fri, 2020-02-14 16:40
#265
Here's the 2017 NDP platform:https://action.bcndp.ca/page/-/bcndp/docs/BC-NDP-Platform-2017.pdf
Christy Clark made her entire 2013 election campaign about LNG. Four years later, Christy Clark and the BC Liberals haven’t delivered a single major LNG project, and they allowed BC to be steamrolled in negotiations with big LNG companies. No LNG plants, no LNG jobs, no revenue to pay down debt, and bad deals that last decades into the future: that’s the Christy Clark legacy on LNG. This despite Christy Clark’s insistence that several LNG plants would be up and running by now. The ground hasn’t been broken on one project. Even if a plant were to open, the desperate BC Liberals signed sweetheart deals with LNG proponents that leave British Columbians without any real benefits. Unlike LNG agreements in Australia, Christy Clark’s bad deals make no mention of job guarantees for local British Columbians. Nor do they address the need to work respectfully with First Nations, or to meet our climate change commitments. While LNG can still represent a significant opportunity for BC, it won’t under Christy Clark. To ensure BC benefits, we will require LNG projects meet four conditions:
› Projects must offer jobs and training for British Columbians, especially jobs for local people.
› The people of BC must get a fair return for our resources.
› Projects must secure full partnerships with local First Nations.
Projects must complete a made-in-BC environmental assessment, and achieve the highest environmental standards while respecting our commitments to combating climate change.
There's the fatal premise in the platform right there. They assumed that there was a way to do LNG correctly. The fact is that putting large amounts of government subsidies into extraction process like LNG is a house of cards that carries big risks. That's the big reason that the Liberals had problems moving this project off the ground.
Make no mistake about it. I do hope Horgan prevails in the next election. I think they have done great things on health care, education, and taking baby steps to rein in the speculation that has made housing so unaffordable. But pushing ahead on LNG was always going to be risky. Remember how the Greens were always saying that they were the only party seriously questioning the need for massive extraction projects? This validates that critique. They have a clear case to make to Green-minded voters that more Greens are necessary. If that is your main issue and enough votes move from the NDP to the Greens to hand the Liberals the seat, why does that matter? You're still going to see the policies you don't like from the main parties, you might as well vote Green to send a message. Furthermore, there is also the forestry crisis. It's true that the NDP were handed a bad situation, but it is one they have barely been able to grapple with. From 2009 onwards, the NDP has been losing seats in the Interior. Their failure on this issue is not going to help win back thsoe areas.
There were way better to use the money spent on LNG than on that project. Heck, the BC NDP announced changes to ICBC in order to deflect from the tensions caused by their LNG approach? Why not simply use the funds that propped up LNG to deal with the ICBC problem?
Mon, 2020-02-17 17:09
#266
What's nice about our current John Horgan lead BC NDP Government is that there has not been one scandal at least so far, since they got elected. Contrast that with their scandal ridden Christy Clark lead Liberal predecessors, eh!
Mon, 2020-02-17 22:45
#267
swallow
There is a huge scandal as they support a resources megaproject over Indigenous peoples, human rights and the environment.
Tue, 2020-02-18 16:11
#268
In Brutish Columbia that is simply 'business as usual'. Only if/when that is interrupted does it become a 'scandal.' I begin to grow a bit weary of the 'lesser evilism' used to justify voting for their more effective evil too many times since this 'party of the working class, led by the middle class, in the interest of the ruling class,' rose to power by promising then selling out supposedly well meaning progressives. I witnessed them close-up during Gustafsen Lake, their promotion of the BC 'Trick or Treaty' Commission, and now their present resource boondoggles and the Wetsuweten crisis. They are immoral, unethical and no friends of Indigenous or their rights and therefore no friends of mine either. Horgan is a thug for big business. Good riddance to bad rubbish and the sooner the better.
Tue, 2020-02-18 20:00
#269
What's nice about our current John Horgan lead BC NDP Government is that there has not been one scandal at least so far, since they got elected. Contrast that with their scandal ridden Christy Clark lead Liberal predecessors, eh!
MLA Jinny Sims has resigned from cabinet following the appointment of a special prosecutor, B.C.'s premier announced Friday.
Sims is the subject of an RCMP investigation and has left her post as the minister of citizens' services, according to a statement from Premier John Horgan.
"I accepted her resignation as appropriate under the circumstances. We take any such investigation very seriously," Horgan said.
"While we await the conclusion of the matter, I have asked Minister Selina Robinson to temporarily assume responsibility as minister of citizens' services."
Tue, 2020-02-18 22:22
#270
swallow
In Brutish Columbia that is simply 'business as usual'. Only if/when that is interrupted does it become a 'scandal.' I begin to grow a bit weary of the 'lesser evilism' used to justify voting for their more effective evil too many times since this 'party of the working class, led by the middle class, in the interest of the ruling class,' rose to power by promising then selling out supposedly well meaning progressives. I witnessed them close-up during Gustafsen Lake, their promotion of the BC 'Trick or Treaty' Commission, and now their present resource boondoggles and the Wetsuweten crisis. They are immoral, unethical and no friends of Indigenous or their rights and therefore no friends of mine either. Horgan is a thug for big business. Good riddance to bad rubbish and the sooner the better.
Entirely agreed.
Tue, 2020-02-18 22:36
#271
Nice smear Ari
It is the honourable thing to do when you are accused of something however the last I heard the investigation is ongoing and I thought you were considered innocent until proven guilty in Canada Silly me
No wonder the left rarely elects governments
Tue, 2020-02-18 22:46
#272
We are so fortunate to have a progressive government in BC led by John Horgan who is raising taxes on the one percenters, eh!
Tue, 2020-02-18 22:46
#273
I have not seen any proof that any BC NDP insiders are making a single dollar off the LNG industry. They are obviously doing it because of their "left wing ideology."
Wed, 2020-02-19 03:59
#274
Premier John Horgan issues statement at start of Black History Month
by Staff on February 1st, 2020 at 10:15 AM
- Former B.C. MLA Rosemary Brown nearly won the NDP federal leadership in 1975. After her death in 2003, she was commemorated posthumously on a Canadian stamp.
“Today we begin Black History Month, a time to honour and celebrate the stories, experiences and accomplishments of Black Canadians here in British Columbia and across the country.
“Black history is foundational to our province’s history.
https://www.straight.com/news/1354601/premier-john-horgan-issues-statement-start-black-history-month
Maximum respect to the memory of Rosemary Brown.
SO much would be better if Rosemary Brown had won the NDP leadership in 1975, or if, at the very least, Dave Barrett hadn't talked her out of standing for a federal seat to run again in her provincial riding in the election he went on to blow in 1979. No disrespect meant to Ed Broadbent-Ed was competent as leader, but his failure to even consider thinking in visionary or transformative terms and his conscious decision not to let the party run an anti-NAFTA campaign in the 1988 election-a foolish decision, since nobody who backed NAFTA was even going to consider voting NDP that year-destroyed any chance of a federal NDP breakthrough for almost a quarter of a century, and may have contributed to the creation of the conditions which led to the party's electoral near-death experience in the 1990s. Had Rosemary been federal leader, most of not all of the party's problems in the Eighties and Nineties would have been avoided.
The BCNDP needs a Rosemary Brown today. Nobody believes they will find anyone remotely like that.
If Horgan ends up playing an active role in forcing the pipeline through unceded Wet'suwet'en lands, he will have forever destroyed the BCNDP as an antiracist party and a party of any form of progressive change. There will no longer be any reason for that party to continue to exist, other than to contest for power for the sake of contesting for power. It will be officially soulless.
Wed, 2020-02-19 04:22
#275
The greatest reason for the BC NDP's existence is the existence of the BC Liberals. BC NDP Premier John Horgan's greatest strength is the spectre of future BC Liberal Premier Andrew Wilkinson. The return of B.C Liberals to government here would be a great setback to the working class in BC. Like it or not, the BC NDP is greatly preferable over the BC Liberals.
Wed, 2020-02-19 10:15
#276
Ken
Your comments about BC politics are about as accurate as your absurd comments about UK politics but very typical of many lefties who don't have a clue about winning elections. Please spare us your nonsensical purity tests.
Wed, 2020-02-19 14:44
#277
NDP Makes History! (By Balancing Its Budget Again)
Resource revenues are diving, but the province’s wider boom offsets new spending.
The secret behind James’s fiscal success is that British Columbia’s economy has been booming for the last number of years — especially in comparison to the rest of Canada. If the old maxim of people “voting with their feet” is accurate, it appears to be borne out by the on-growing growth of the province’s population.
Consider that in mid-2017 — when Horgan’s New Democrats, along with a trio of Green MLAs, defeated the BC Liberals on a vote in the Legislative Assembly — B.C.’s population was slightly above 4.9 million.
This summer, according to estimates by BC Stats, the comparable number will hit just over 5.14 million — a rise of 222,000 people in just three years, or a stunning average increase of 74,000 new residents annually.
That remarkable population growth brings with it numerous economic and fiscal effects. Consider:
B.C.’s labour force (employed and unemployed) this year is expected to reach a historic high of 2.72 million. Astoundingly, the province’s labour participation rate is at a near-record 65.5 per cent.
Household income is forecast this year to hit $279 billion, another record.
Total compensation for employees — that is, the wages, salaries and benefits paid to workers — similarly is expected to hit an all-time high of nearly $158 billion. Corporate profits in 2020 are pegged at $31 billion, just slightly below historic records set in 2017 and 2018.
And all of those new B.C. residents need a place to live, and in 2019 housing starts — which many NDP critics forecast would plunge downward — instead came to a whopping (and record) 44,932.
It should be no surprise that all of this stellar economic activity has had a positive influence on British Columbia’s finances.
In 2016/17, the final full fiscal year under the BC Liberals, total government revenues — using GAAP, or generally accepted accounting principles — came in at $51.4 billion. For next year, fiscal 2020/21, James estimates that total income will be $60.6 billion.
Nearly every major category of tax receipts reflects the province’s ongoing economic growth.
Again using data for the four-year period from 2016/17 to 2020/21, personal income tax receipts have gone up from $9.7 billion to $11.8 billion; sales-tax revenue climbed from $6.6 billion to $7.9 billion; and corporate income taxes rose from $3 billion to $4.7 billion.
Even property-related tax revenues, notwithstanding the vagaries of the province’s real-estate market, have remained robust. Receipts from the property tax grew from $2.3 billion to $3 billion, and from the controversial property-transfer tax stayed nearly static albeit slipping slightly from $2 billion to $1.6 billion.
That enduring strength from B.C.’s own-source taxation — along with federal transfers which rose over the period from just under $8.2 billion to nearly $10 billion — has more than offset disappointing revenues from natural resources.
It’s easy now to forget that much of the BC Liberals’ fleeting fiscal surpluses under former premier Gordon Campbell were due to a seven-year stretch from 2002/03 to 2008/09 when natural-gas revenues exceeded $1 billion annually — and in 2005/06 hit an eye-watering $1.9 billion.
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2020/02/19/NDP-Balance-Budget-Again/
Wed, 2020-02-19 15:23
#278
And this is why the BC NDP Government has instituted a tax on the one percenters in their latest budget out this week.
https://thetyee.ca/Analysis/2020/01/27/Talk-Cheap-Capitalism-Bell-Mental-Health/
Wed, 2020-02-19 22:53
#279
swallow
It is not a "purity test" to ask the BCNDP not to be racist.
It is not a "purity test" to ask them to stop invading Indigenous territories.
It is not a "purity test" to ask them to stop contributing to global cliamte change with enw resource projects and new pipelines.
Wed, 2020-02-19 23:14
#280
The BC NDP gets a B+ for its incrementalism on social issues. That does not offset its F on UNDRIP given indigenous opposition to both Site C and Coast Gas and its F on the environment. Our ruling elite loves the lesser of evils politics that North Report supports.
Wed, 2020-02-19 23:27
#281
How much money would people in BC save on their energy bills (especially Fortis BC gas customers) if Horgan used the tax money being thrown at LNG for renewable energy instead?
This is where envrionmentalists lose people. So you're paying taxes on your gas heating because apparently that's going to mean the end of the world. Okay. Then the government not only encourages more gas exploration, but exempts them from the very carbon tax they asked you to pay, on the thing they said was going to destory the world. Is it too much of a stretch that people will think, "well, they're lying to me about the carbon tax, they're also probably lying about climate change?"
Thu, 2020-02-20 04:33
#282
Our ruling elite loves the lesser of evils politics....
That's why we're stuck with FPTP.
Thu, 2020-02-20 10:00
#283
The BC Liberals’ Budget Misfire
Another “tax and spend” budget, grumbled Andrew Wilkinson and company, who were particularly incensed about a move to levy the PST on Netflix.
The Province newspaper kicked it up a notch with the headline “Sneaky Tax Grabs Highlight Business Unfriendly Budget.”
Under the headline, columnist Mike Smyth warned that a new income tax bracket for the top one per cent of earners means the New Democrats “risk B.C.’s competitive advantage by hammering business professionals who make multimillion-dollar investment decisions.”
Catchy, but not credible.
The new tax bracket raises the rate on income above $220,000 from 16.8 per cent to 20.5 per cent. Someone making $500,000 a year will pay an extra $10,300. Someone making $300,000, an extra $2,960.
Not many people like to pay more taxes. But the notion that a “multimillion-dollar investment decision” would be based on whether a handful of people in a company have to pay a few thousand more in taxes betrays a basic lack of business knowledge.
A competitive tax regime could matter in terms of attracting hard-to-recruit talent from outside the province, a potential factor in investment decisions.
But B.C. is extremely competitive. For a two-income family with two children and a household income of $200,000 a year, B.C. has the second lowest total provincial taxes in Canada.
Alberta has the lowest taxes, a reflection of its barking mad fiscal policy. The province is on track to reach an $8.7-billion deficit this year, but won’t raises taxes. In this $200,000 bracket, affluent Albertans pay 40 per cent less than the Canadian average — and pass on the resulting deficits to their children and grandchildren.
But B.C. is more than competitive with the rest of the provinces. The $200,000 family would pay 23 per cent more in taxes in Ontario, for example, if their employer chose to locate there. And the B.C. taxes are 27 per cent below the Canadian average.
The BC Liberals were also worked up about a provision to apply the provincial sales tax to Netflix, I suppose because “Netflix tax” works well on social media and plays to some perceived populist base.
The Liberals didn’t explain why the U.S. giant should be exempt from the tax simply because it has avoided setting up offices in Canada, while competitors based here are required to charge it. Nor why the cost — less than $12 a year — is so critical to the British Columbians’ futures that it should be a key element of the party’s budget messaging.
Despite the “tax and spend” rhetoric, the reality is that most British Columbians are paying much less in taxes and fees than they did under the BC Liberals.
https://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2020/02/20/BC-Liberals-Budget-Misfire/
Fri, 2020-02-21 10:26
#284
Horgan's pipeline patience running out, refuses to cave to 'minority'
Fri, 2020-02-21 14:41
#285
The BC NDP now have Vaughn Palmer and Keith Baldry and other right wing pundits cheering for them. Enough said.
Fri, 2020-02-21 14:56
#286
Yea let's have the BC Liberals back in - brilliant strategy and typical of some braindead lefties
All these government construction agreements now have provisions for women and Indigenous Peoples so let's get rid of the BC NDP, eh!
Fri, 2020-02-21 17:39
#287
..the only thing that is brain dead, northreport, is your analysis of the situation. already horgan's actions around extraction are alienating the greens and a whole lot of other people on the political left. alienating the greens who are propping up the ndp. and now the ecosocialists will be running in the next election. so truth be told..it's ndp policy that will be the factor that allows the liberals to come in. your whole position is based on polls which even you have said they can't be relied upon. like the ndp pulling shit like getting into bed with lng and violating human rights, relies on people's fear of liberals. not reality.
Fri, 2020-02-21 18:49
#288
B.C. premier talks budgets, bridges and blockades in Vancouver
Premier John Horgan said he is hoping to resolve a national crisis with First Nations and rail blockades through "dialogue" but so far the hereditary chiefs of the Wet'suwet'en are refusing to meet with federal and provincial ministers to have that dialogue, despite repeated offers.
And Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has just conceded that "dialogue" isn't working and is now abandoning attempt to negotiate with the Office of the Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs, who have managed to rally other First Nations, notably Ontario's Mohawks, as well as non-Indigenous protesters to their campaign against a natural gas pipeline.
Fri, 2020-02-21 21:45
#289
BC partners with First Nations to create new park for threatened Caribou herds, endangered species
Fri, 2020-02-21 22:28
#290
..the only thing that is brain dead, northreport, is your analysis of the situation. already horgan's actions around extraction are alienating the greens and a whole lot of other people on the political left. alienating the greens who are propping up the ndp. and now the ecosocialists will be running in the next election. so truth be told..it's ndp policy that will be the factor that allows the liberals to come in. your whole position is based on polls which even you have said they can't be relied upon. like the ndp pulling shit like getting into bed with lng and violating human rights, relies on people's fear of liberals. not reality.
I'll add to that that public support for the NDP is currently way down from where it was in the 2017 election, with the Greens and the Conservatives up. The only reason that the NDP still has a chance at winning the next election is because Liberal support has also dropped.
People are tired of the establishment parties and are looking for something different. In BC, the NDP counts as part of the establishment. The other worrying trend is that since 2005, the NDP has not only been losing seats to the Liberals in the Interior, but even as unpopular as Christy Clark was, the NDP was not able to gain enough public support in that election to remove her from office without help. You would think that the NDP would at least be a bit more humble in their approach to government. Furthermore, not only are they losing support on their green and left flanks, but even if the Liberals do vote with them on things like LNG, do you think the NDP is going to gain from it at all? Not a chance. The Liberals will be able to take credit, say they forced the NDP's hand, and that is why you need to elect more Liberal MLAs.
This is utterly ridiculous! For a while, it looked like the Liberal brand in BC was toast and on its way out. Not much work needed on the NDP's part. Instead, the NDP is blatantly mishandling a file that is critically important to the party that is keeping it in government. I still hope the NDP prevails in the next BC election (possibly with Horgan and the key architects of the party's current approach to pipelines removed) but if the NDP doesn't, they have nobody to blame but themselves.
Sat, 2020-02-22 16:19
#291
so all you purer than pure perfect people now the permits been pulled you got shit to say.....
so so sick of the manly mens pretending they got it all going on and only they know.
meanwhile the Wet'Suwet'en matriarchs are disagreeing with all the crap you're pushing. way to keep the colonialist sexist tirades going.
pfffttttttt.. .
Sat, 2020-02-22 19:20
#292
B.C. premier talks budgets, bridges and blockades in Vancouver
Premier John Horgan said he is hoping to resolve a national crisis with First Nations and rail blockades through "dialogue" but so far the hereditary chiefs of the Wet'suwet'en are refusing to meet with federal and provincial ministers to have that dialogue, despite repeated offers.
And Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has just conceded that "dialogue" isn't working and is now abandoning attempt to negotiate with the Office of the Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs, who have managed to rally other First Nations, notably Ontario's Mohawks, as well as non-Indigenous protesters to their campaign against a natural gas pipeline.
WHAT attempts to negotiate?
Sat, 2020-02-22 21:47
#293
Actually Ari what people are tired of are Lefties who don't understand the importance of winning elections, tired of people who dont know how to win elections, and then tired of them whining about bad governments.
Sat, 2020-02-22 22:03
#294
Sat, 2020-02-22 22:18
#295
tired of them whining about bad governments
Nice to see you finally concede Horgan's NDP is a bad government.
Sat, 2020-02-22 23:44
#296
BC Ferries president grumbles about 'lower' than expected fare increase set for April 1
Sun, 2020-02-23 15:52
#297
B.C. money laundering inquiry to begin amid hopes for answers, accountability
Sun, 2020-02-23 15:55
#298
B.C. NDP staying the course with its safe-as-milk 2020 budget
Sun, 2020-02-23 16:20
#299
Actually Ari what people are tired of are Lefties who don't understand the importance of winning elections, tired of people who dont know how to win elections, and then tired of them whining about bad governments.
Which successful electoral campaign have YOU directed, North?
And if you are now sneering at "lefties", where have you drifted on the political spectrum?
Sun, 2020-02-23 16:26
#300
B.C. NDP staying the course with its safe-as-milk 2020 budget
Did you actually read that editorial? It wasn't praising the Horgan government, it was cynically gloating about how non-progressive it is-while including snide and absurd comments about "three years of class warfare".
The Vancouver Courier is a right-wing paper and will be campaigning all-out for the BC "Liberals" at the next provincial election-unless the BC Conservatives suddenly surge ahead of them among "free enterpriser" voters.
Mon, 2020-03-16 13:09
#301
Looking good John!
An early B.C. seat projection gives a slight edge to the NDP