As expected, the Liberals lost a confidence vote and the word is now that the BC NDP have been asked to form gov’t.
I don’t know what the people on the ground are saying, but I don’t expect this gov’t to last long either.
As expected, the Liberals lost a confidence vote and the word is now that the BC NDP have been asked to form gov’t.
I don’t know what the people on the ground are saying, but I don’t expect this gov’t to last long either.
Time for Christy to resign as leader, but remain in the legislature. The liberals can then select a new leader and hopefully we can get another election before the NDP does to much damage.
captcha 6100 hope
Trying to find any kind of silver lining here.
Maybe some money targeted to fight pipelines will have to be redirected to cover the cost of another election.
That’s about all I can come up with.
Christy desperately tried to woo the Greens but the BC Watermelon Alliance wants power and now they have it for a little while.
Mike, I agree that she has to go. I don’t know of anyone in her Cabinet that isn’t about as mushy centrist as her though. A conservative would be a refreshing change.
Interesting that the only city on the left coast that hasn’t yet figured out how to treat their sewage before dumping it into the ocean also produced the three Greens of the coalition. Perhaps that’s the explanation – their turds go into politics instead of the ocean.
Well, the LG made a mistake letting the Dips and Watermelons have a chance at taxing and regulating us to death. The Speaker is supposed to be neutral, but with a plurality of 1, that can’t happen, the speaker will be partisan.
Just to let you know what kind of arrogant ass Weaver us, he expects a Liberal to be Speaker for them. Fat Chance if that.
Hopefully, we are back at the polls soon, but I agree, Christy had to go now, she went full left in her failed attempt to keep government. Bad mistake. In the meantime, we will see the Party of takers, attack the productive class of society, likely with bad results and unintended consequences
I hate this country sometimes.
I suspect one reason why the Dippers got so many seats was similar to why Albertans elected Red Rachel. My aunt lives in B. C. and she told me that she voted for the NDP just to get rid of Clark. She didn’t seem to grasp the concept that elections have consequences.
Be vs AB dippers. Gonna be interesting times ahead. Headaches for Pride Marshall Justin.
No one admits oil crash leads to deficits. There ain’t no other golden goose but the taxpayer…..
Ben Dover, Hugh McCracken, Hey McCloud get offa my ewe.
May God help Alberta. Time to arouse the separatists. At least pipelines aimed south will be welcome.
Looks like we’re well on the road to Armageddon. Trudeau, Wynne, Notley, and now Horgan and Weaver are about to dig the biggest damned hole in Canadian finances since the Bennett Buggy took to the roads. It is not enough that Trudeau is shoveling taxpayers money out of the country at an unsustainable rate while importing unvetted and unskilled migrants and refugees, it is not that Wynne has created a basket case out of Ontar-i-owe’s manufacturing base with unprecedented electricity costs and Notley is systematically killing off the oil patch, no these are not enough. Now we have Frick and Frack on the Left Coast who want to kill the pipelines from Alberta and at the same time stop Site C on the Peace. There is an old adage “Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad!” Welcome to the first post national State of Bedlam, formerly called the Dominion of Canada. I’m sure that MacDonald, Cartier, Laurier and the rest never imagined that the country they created would be in such sorry conditions as Canadians find themselves in today on the eve of our 150th Anniversary. Happy Birthday Canada, the sacrifices have all been in vain.
We work ourselves out of the hold statists create, then jump right back in just when the dividends are ready to be reaped.
Federally it’s been done, now in my beloved BC.
The only consolation is this gong show won’t last long as plutocrats find doing is harder than promising, but will waste no time bellying up to the trough.
Remember Trudeau’s spending spree. Here we go in BC. Increasing government revenues while killing jobs and investment across the economy.
What could go wrong? Look how well the NDP has done in AB. Look at the statist show in Ontario. To be fair, they are doing better than Venezuela.
For now.
What Antenor and Shamrock said.
The people get the government they deserve, and it appears they deserve what Venezuela has got.
I grew up in northern B. C. and I visit the area often now that I’m in the process of settling my father’s estate.
The only reason Victoria cares about that part of the province is for tax revenues. Aside from that, it does as little as possible there. There is taxation but little representation of the region’s interests in the legislature.
No taxation without representation…. It seems to me that same phrase was used as a slogan by some other country to fight for its independence….
I think it’s been said here before but voting for the NDP to get rid of Clark is kinda like using a shotgun to remove a mosquito from your own face.
While this is yet more bad news for the very few sane people left in this country, I don’t see the GreenDP lasting very long as a Government. That prick Weaver is sinking the Greens by getting into bed with the New Destroyers. I know a couple of people who voted for the Greens but hate the NDP ( I know right, whats the difference?) The next election will be clear that a vote for the Greens is a vote for the NDP and that will not help the Greens. How much damage will the GreenDP inflict on British Columbians before it all collapses and we’re into another election? I predict, not very long… 18 Months tops… Krusty Klark has got to go… wheres Kevin Falcon? Either way its all going to be pretty ugly.
I am not terrifically concerned. Living in BC it was clear the Libs had lost the thread – carbon taxes, social licence and so on. They had also lost any serious urban support.
The good news is that we are about to have a housing price crash of Biblical proportions. And the NDP, unfairly, will wear it.
Time for the BC Liberals to lose their leader and get serious about real policies for real growth. They only have to swing half a dozen seats. British Columbians are about to see their houses sink by thirty percent. They are going to experience the opposite of wealth. And they are going to want the pain to stop. In two years, if the Libs play it right, the BC growth story will sell all over the province.
More here: https://jaycurrie.wordpress.com/2017/06/30/oh-joy-the-ndp/
Silly people. I was just in Vancouver and the growth and business there is booming. Cranes everywhere, people working and shopping.
Maybe out in hinderland where the moose run free it isn’t rosy, but in GVR area it is hopping.
And that’s all that matters.
“…hate this country sometimes.”
Not me. I just hate its electorate, but probably more often.
you mean the liberals have not done as much damage as possible?
Well you can kiss any new pipelines across BC goodbye.
Words that cause sleepless nights with Hulk Horgan and Dream Weaver in charge:
“I look forward to working harder than I’ve ever worked before,” said Horgan
Code for ‘I’ve got voting blocks to pay back and the money I need to shovel out the door will require strong back work’
The Red Green Show can’t effectively function. After electing a communist as speaker, the best they can do is a tie vote. The speaker isn’t supposed to vote in a way that upsets the status quo. The Lieutenant Governor should have just called new elections.
The issue becomes whether the Dipper/Greens bring in proportional voting before they are tossed.
The BC Libs do not exist up here in the Kootenays. No riding association and no effort to engage people.
‘…”…hate this country sometimes.”
Not me. I just hate its electorate, but probably more often.’
I would suggest rather that we hate the leftist media for what it has done to the electorate of this country. False Marxist utopian promises and hatred of human endeavor. Yuri Bezmonov warned us as to what was happening.
agreed. joke of the day (based on this quote from the link):
“warned that they were inheriting the strongest economy in Canada”
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warned? as if having a strong economy is a bad thing ???
oh, wait, that’s correct, for leftists a strong economy IS a bad thing. LOL !!!
What damage? Are you quoting GreenDP talking points, cuz the welfare class is STILL poor, despite their laziness and self-victimization? Hint: They will still be poor under the GreenDP!
As Jay Currie said, there will be a recession and housing crash, partially attributable to the GreenDP and their regressive, anti-growth policies. Despite the “housing crisis” that has been breathlessly repeated over and over, I haven’t heard any homeowners complaining about their increased equity in their homes.
Despite a healthy economy, on the South Coast and urban areas where the vast majority of BC residents live, they voted for the regressive anti-growth welfare party.
Elections have consequences!
To be fair, the Libs have become arrogant and tone deaf. BC Hydro and BC Ferries are two prime examples of their political shenanigans-gone-wrong.
I give this new collaboration about two months before it blows apart; Horigan(SP?) is noted for having a vile temper and I doubt that’s going to endear him to either Weaver or the opposition.
(I wish the Libs would change their name; they aren’t Liberals…how about Social credit? 🙂 )
If BC housing prices collapse more aliens could afford them
I’ve lived here since 1966,seen three NDP governments in power over that time.
Despite bleatings to the contrary, B.C. did not prosper under any of them,and I’ve found that people who claim the NDP were just fine in government, were government employees or employed by crown corporations.
During the Harcourt/Clark years, the major industries took a huge hit,forestry,mining,and construction a disaster. A friend was the manager of one of B.C.’s larger mining companies,he said they were leaving for South America and simply shut down their operations here.
In forestry,thousands were squeezed out of the industry, mills shut down,small Interior town withered away to hamlets,and in construction,companies on the Lower Mainland were going out of business or moving to friendlier climes almost daily. Dozens of tradesmen and small companies I worked with left the Province.
But some will still claim the NDP did a great job of running the Province. Yes,if you were a BCGEU employee or a member of one of the other Unions. A friend who was in the Ironworkers Union and a staunch NDP’er argued with me that he was doing great under the NDP. I replied that yes, HE was, but the work he was involved in was dismantling pulp mills,sawmills and mines to be shipped out fo the Country. He never saw my side of the debate,just stuck to the mantra that he and the other ironworkers were making big money under the NDP.
We can expect many things from this new coalition: every promise made to the peasants will be reneged,(ie. no elimination of MSP premiums),except for the shutdown of industry, the carbon tax will be increased,Weaver wants it doubled, ICBC rates UP, every government fee and charge will go UP, and so will the wages of the government employees.
The NDP are geniuses at bankrupting a Province,like the character in a long ago Joseph Heller novel.
B.C., we’re f***ed,and they didn’t even kiss us first.
Don;
The favorite trick of unions and Dipper governments was holding capital to ransom realizing that moving physical plant was prohibitive. Today the challenge is competing for any capital to locate, period.
At best investment is likely to tread water until the Dippers are ultimately voted out.
I think this is the most clear-headed post. Clark should have never fought this election she should have been replaced. I don’t think this ends well or lasts long for the NDP and I think it is catastrophic misstep for the greens.
While the massive concentration of eco-derp in the Van-Vic idiot axis is a big reason for Green support, the Greens probably owe at least as much to their ‘clean slate appeal’. The voters have so much cynicism over the two main parties and that leads a lot of people to throw in with the lot who have no bad record. They can project what they want onto the Greens. Well that record isn’t going to be clean anymore.
“I was just in Vancouver and the growth and business there is booming. Cranes everywhere, people working and shopping.”
That is often what things look like before a bubble bursts. I have some housing in Alberta circa 2013 you might want to buy.
Funny, agreed on most of your post. That pompous ass Weaver made a critical mistake when negotiating with his fellow socialists. He should have insisted on a cabinet post in exchange for support. Instead, he looks like a yappy lapdog of the GREENDP. With luck, an election will happen soon, and the Green support will crater, as just another flavour of NDP, which it always has been except to those with cognitive dissonance
No fan of the NDP but I am so delighted to see Clark and her gang of arrogant Liberals out of government that I am drinking extra beer tonight.
Clark had to go, and maybe just maybe the Liberals might now learn a bit of humility. They should also get a new leader instead of continuing to worship Clark like she is some sort of goddess. This is a woman who couldn’t even get a university degree yet shamelessly tried to pretend she had one.
To hell with the BC Liberals, I hope they all rot, every last arrogant one of them, and I make this comment as a staunch conservative.
BC down the tubes…NO JOBS. Thousands lost stopping the building of Peace River dam. Lost jobs as both Oil pipe lines will be shut down. How is BC going to get the money from it’s taxpayers if they don’t have jobs. OH! the government is giving money for safe drug sites for illegal drugs to be taken, just maybe you should let them die…the cost of keeping them alive is to expense since they don’t care about their own life, so why should we!!
the liberals are as far left as the rest, anyone who doesn’t think that is not paying attention.
Wrong Planet Weaver, out front showing all just how arrogant and ignorant a true believer can be.
Fellow is lauded for his “expertise” In Computer modelling.
Yet his product,100% taxpayer funded, is wildly in error for this planet.
Consistently running too hot..
So what alternate earth is this “expert” modelling?
You’re joking right? The cranes are for more shoeboxes in the sky and the shopping is mostly money-laundering of CPC stolen loot. The place is a hell hole.