With less than two months before the October election, the BC NDP website features Premier David Eby and a guy who left the Premier’s office and went to work for a coal mining affiliate of Teck Resources. Just another regulator joining a regulated corporation. It came only months after The Narwhal reported “Teck Resources, B.C. government pressed Ottawa to resist investigation into coal mine pollution.
John Horgan became Ambassador of Canada to Germany in December 2023. Six month later he went on leave to have his third occurence of cancer treated. Horgan’s social media accounts have been quiet since then.
Despite his exit from government, the NDP remains proud of John Horgan’s achievements. Although some thought David Eby would take new directions, his government has been almost indistinguishable from Horgan’s.
Fossil fuel producers in BC were satisfied with Horgan’s government and remain satisfied with Eby’s. Production of natural gas in BC has increased 90% since NDP took power in 2017. Output of this fossil fuel has continued to grow rapidly during Eby’s tenure as Premier.
According to an analysis of the 2022 B.C. budget by the environmental advocacy organization Stand.earth, B.C.’s oil and gas industry received a total of $1.9 billion in subsidies in 2021.
Monthly crown sales of petroleum & natural gas tenures once added billions of dollars a year to the province’s treasury. BC NDP ended those, something the industry wanted Christy Clark to do.
| PROMISES ______________ | COMMENTS _________________ |
| David Eby 2021: Construction underway on a project that will offer 68 new homes in Kitsilano. “Our government is investing in more affordable housing for people who work and live in Vancouver, and throughout B.C.,” said David Eby. Once completed, the five- storey development will be a mixed-use building with affordable rental homes for moderate- to middle-income households. | 2024: Housing Minister Ravi Kahlon surfaced this week to explain why most of the units in a government-subsidized “affordable” rental housing project in Vancouver are not really affordable. 54 of the 68 units will rent for between $2,650 and $4,300 a month.. Vio |
| John Horgan 2017: “I promise a climate plan that will ensure emissions go down – that we will reverse the trajectory of pollution growth…” | According to the latest federal climate pollution data, British Columbia is the only Canadian province to increase its GHG emissions between 2015 and 2022. |
| Davide Eby 2022: Swift action on the most pressing issues facing British Columbians: – fixing the housing crisis, – making communities safer, – strengthening health care, and – acting on climate change. | – An updated Research Co. poll shows that as the housing crisis worsened over the last two years, – StatsCan reports crime severity index in BC rose 8% between 2021 and 2023. youth violent crime up 27%, youth non-violent crime up 20%. – The rapidly LNG industry in BC is exacerbating the province’s crisis of access to healthcare and increasing healthcare system costs, including ER closures, healthcare worker shortages and worsening health outcomes…” |
| Inequalities are baked into B.C.’s justice, health and child-welfare systems and human rights problems in the province abound in schools, hospitals and workplaces, says the province’s human rights commissioner. | |
| BC NDP, 2024: The Province is securing a better future for B.C.’s forests and communities by taking better care of more old-growth forests, supporting local jobs and building a more sustainable and resilient forestry industry. | The Wilderness Committee, an environmental non-profit group, called the update a stall tactic that “delays meaningful changes and fails to include any new interim measures to protect the most endangered old-growth forests.” |
| David Eby, 2022: The Province is launching a new Safer Communities Action Plan that will strengthen enforcement to keep those who commit repeat violent offences off our streets, and strengthen services to build safe, healthy communities for everyone. | See crime stats from Statistics Canada noted above. |
My conclusion is that the BC NDP wants to do good things, but lacks the courage needed to achieve their progressive goals. The party seems to believe that issuing a press release about a policy objective is just about as good as achieving that goal. The best example of this is all they’ve written and said about climate change. Yet, unlike other parts of Canada, BC’s GHG emissions continue to rise.
BC NDP has not published a platform as August 21. I will update this page when they do.
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The NDP has morphed into “Vision Vancouver Provincial” with very close ties to the land speculator/land developer elites which seem to run this province.
In reality all Eby has done is to increase the “hot air” from Victoria, to further bamboozle the taxpayer.
Hidden taxes increase and does the Carbon Tax, which has become a placebo for the NDP government pretending its doing something when it is not. $5 billion to widen Hwy.1 is a good indication of that.
The NDP’s failure to provide good public transportation, which includes building election photo-op Skytrain, instead of much more cheaper, user-friendly transit alternatives. The failure to deal with the E&N is another black eye and further evidence that the NDP are a “rubber on asphalt” government.
Sadly, in my book, there is little difference between Eby and Falcon, just different politcal friends to pay-off with the taxpayer’s money.
This is why I will vote Green if there is a Green candidate in my riding and if not I will write a very crude message on my ballot.
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There have been times in the past where I went to the polling place and consciously spoiled my ballot. I didn’t think any candidate was worthy of support.
But that did not work toward a better outcome when all votes were counted.
If we don’t have a good choice, we need to select the least worst. In other words, the best of a group of undesirables.
After the election, Tweedledum and Tweedledee (BC United & Cons) will likely amalgamate under Rustad, the guy Indigenous leaders said fuelled racism against their communities.
You can imagine what they’ll do if they regain power. First, they will lift the limits on campaign contributions. BC Liberals gained millions from corporations and wealthy out-of-province business executives. They’ll want to go back to having huge sums to run their political party.
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In my burg, the incumbent MLA, a BC Whatever, will easily win reelection under either a BC Whatever or Conservative banner.The sad fact is the NDP gave the royal one finger salute to the hurtlands and they have driven many voters to the conservatives.
From my vantage point, Eby is no better than Rustad and the once provincial NDP have turned into a land speculator/developers dream and their transportation polices are based on the car or what benefits SNC Lavalin.
Question: why was John Horgan made Ambassador to Germany? Was it because he rubber stamped the Surrey LRT flip-flop to Skytrain in Surrey/Langley to keep jobs in Ontario and Quebec? $13 billion plus, now, to build 21.7 km of new SkyTrain and replace the Mk.1 cars.
Rubber and asphalt politics and what is good for Quebec and Ontario rule politics in BC.
That whirring sound you hear is one Dave Barrett spinning in his grave.
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The BC NDP has been disappointing on climate action.
In an ideal world, we would have PR and be able to vote green.
However, it will likely be necessary for me to vote tactically for the BC NDP again, to keep out the conservatives.
I always vote.
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I have not missed an election yet, except if I was out of the country but my god, what choices we have in BC today.Rustad’s Trump Lite Conservatives.
Falcon’s Gorodo’s BC Whatever party.
Eby’s Vision(less) Vancouver Provincial party.
This just leaves Fursteneau’s Vancouver Island Greens.
Sleepless nights await because in good conscience I just cannot vote for the top three parties, leaving the Greens as a protest.
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not related but i think by law BCHydro has to release quarterly report within 60 days ans today is day 59
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Under the Budget Transparency and Accountability Act, Section 10 (3), a quarterly report normally must be made public on or before
(a)September 15, in respect of the first 3 months of the fiscal year, (to June 30)
(b)November 30, in respect of the first 6 months of the fiscal year, (to September 30)
(c)February 28, in respect of the first 9 months of the fiscal year, (to December 31) and
Under Section 16 (2), Annual Reports (to March 31) of government organizations must be made public no later than August 31 in each year.
Today being the last business day of August, it is a bit surprising that BC Hydro did not post the report that reveals financial results for the year ended March 31, 2024. Perhaps some minion will be working overtime to post the Annual Service Plan by the end of Saturday, August 31.
As usual, BC Hydro has no interest in being financially transparent. It is 3 1/2 years since the Site C budget was updated.
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