28 Replies to “Premier Clark, Call your office”

  2. Most Vancouverites don’t pay the carbon tax because they buy gas in the US along with their groceries. That’s where the power base of the damn province is despite Clark’s claim that she’s “not from Vancouver” all of a sudden since parachuting into her Kelowna riding.

  3. Well they changed faces – much like Canadians do. It remains to be seen how conservative this regime is – they have 6 years of malignant globalist-commie legislating to repeal – hope they don’t get side tracked or stagnated like out “conervatives?”.

  5. Clark is one of the last hold outs still claiming this scam is legitimate, but trying to wrestle a tax on nothing away from a politician is a daunting task. Almost every granola crunching, foam at the mouth tree hugger in the country lives in BC. What southern BC really needs is a couple weeks of -20 this coming winter to turn the tables. Mother nature does have a sick sense of humor and I’m hoping she’s fed up with Suzuki/Gore. Would be very entertaining , paying carbon tax to prevent global warming and see what one is getting for the money. That should be a wake up call even the brainwashed Gaia worshipers would understand.

  6. “Almost every granola crunching, foam at the mouth tree hugger in the country lives in BC.”
    Yep, and almost all of them came here from the rest of Canada back in the 1960’s.
    This wasn’t a left-loonie Province when I moved here in 1966,and anyone who had put up a roadblock in those days would have gotten the sh!t beaten out of them by mean,angry loggers.
    Coming from Manitoba,I couldn’t believe the wealth and opportunities in B.C.
    But we DO have the mildest climate in Canada,and there were lots of idyllic enclaves that green loonies could hide away from the world in,so we inherited all these nutcase immigrants,many of whom came from Ontario,and we haven’t had peace since.
    Our beloved and revered Premier,Christy Clark simply cannot rescind the carbon tax,the Province has pissed away a fortune subsidizing private power projects, windmills over dams.
    Christy is the classic Chretien/ Martin type Liberal,totally amoral. She’ll pour massive amounts of money into boondoggles to enrich friends of the Party,and set herself up on dozens of Boards for the inevitable day she gets the boot,but in the meantime at least she will allow resource development, unlike the Opposition.
    I enjoy seeing so many conservatives foam at the mouth over CC,and call her every name in the book that describes subnormal intelligence,but she just keeps winning,and in politics,that’s all that counts in the end.
    There IS no moral high ground in politics.

  7. Don’t hold your hopes up Lance. I’m glad the BC Libs won the election rather than the NDP, but the Libs are *the* most arrogant, aloof, elitist and condescending political party in the history of Canadian politics. In short, they think they are a superior species to the people (plebs in their view) that elected them.
    I will make a $100 bet that the carbon tax will *never* be eliminated while the BC Libs are in power.

  8. The only thing that sucks more than USATODAY is a USATODAY webpage that not only autoplays a video, but slows a dual core 64bit cpu and 6gigs of ram to a crawl. They’ve overdone the web2.0 a little, methinks. Looks good on them.

  9. Another summary. My favorite line is the gaff “In another incident, he accidentally drew laughter during a speech by saying that no one is the “suppository” of all wisdom, when he apparently meant to say “repository.” ” Of course, as he is Conservative, we’ll hear all about these.

  10. Oz Land has a proportional voting system and it resulted in a couple of Greenie party members getting elected and then holding the minority ALP and the country hostage to the stupidity and economic ruin of green policies like the much hated carbon tax.
    A classic example of why FPTP provides better government than proportional representation empowers tiny minorities and overrides majorities.

  11. Social conservatives and libertarians in the US and elsewhere might want to take notes too.
    From my reading it sounds like Abbott actively courted women and minorities. Rather ranting on about culture war issues it seems that Abbot, like Harper, understands that appealing to women can be done by appealing to families. Compare PMSH’s universal child credit and Abott’s maternity leave promise. This may be off-putting to libertarians but is politically popular.
    Abbott also rejected multiculturalism and mass immigration but engaged immigrants instead of offending them – to me this sounds similar to Jason Kenney’s outreach program. Most libertarian writers and think tanks push open immigration but I get the feeling that regular libertarians are not as convinced that it is a great idea, myself included. Ignoring the evidence presented by those most affected by uncontrolled immigration, people in poor and working class neighborhoods, is a bad idea. Not all immigrants are able to integrate, contribute instead of collect entitlements or leave old hatred/criminal activities behind.

  12. Hell,TJ,raise that bet to a million, you can’t lose at any amount!
    A Cabinet Minister in the BC Government told me in conversation that the “carbon tax is gone when we bring down the new budget”,which they did in February.
    The carbon tax wasn’t even mentioned in the budget. I asked said Minister what had happened with the tax, the next time I saw him,and he changed the subject.
    During the campaign Christy repeatedly promised to NOT raise the carbon tax,and on that we’ll just have to wait and see.
    The economy in B.C. today is essentially based on the service industry,the same money going around in circles. Financial services are #1. Without massive doses of resource industry royalties and the income taxes from said industries,B.C.’s economy would be as viable as in Ontario.
    The people of B.C. are in a precarious position unless the dough starts to flow from those resource industries,in BIG amounts.
    We have to hope CC is as good an economic leader as she is a campaigner.

  13. DM…..ya really? CC has shown throughout her short tenure, that she is just a campaigner, a sloganeer, but very short on solid policy direction.
    Economically, the Libs main policy is “we’re not the NDP”, and while that’s fine, it still leaves a huge void. Our economy is moribund as you indicate, largely a service industry supported by an over supply of government that over pay themselves shamelessly (Ferries, Hydro, ICBC). Its the height of cynicism when the gubermint minister shows his disdain over the outrageous pay….yet….while he is in control, the pay rates never change. Just shameful, and typical Liberal ways (and NDP too for that matter)
    Various groups have demonized logging and mills, to the point where trees have feelings too, and we must listen to them….
    As we have also recently seen, the eco-nutters are out in full force, from a trophy hunt of a Grizz, by Mr Stoner, the NHLer. Big deal, but the freakout by the media, and the econuts demonstrates how screwed we are. The media is only too happy to be judge jury and hangman for anything not of the PC eco-green, mother love Gaia concept. It’s sickening.
    How does BC grow its economy? On wishes and dreams of LNG? I dunno, it won’t hurt, but I’m skeptical of the impact, especially CC’s vapid promises. We are Californication North, and the municipal politicians are eco-nutters and NDP farm team types. Witness the City of Victoria’s ‘letter of shame’ to Putin, over his laws that the gay nutters are hanging their hat on. Stupidity…

  14. Immigration, as with a few other libertarian policies, directly implemented in isolation may not be wise. Open immigration into a free society where the private sector and freely discriminating individuals control immigration to the extent their property rights influence is a far cry from Friedman’s recipe for bankruptcy (welfare state plus open immigration). If we must live in a thoroughly statist nation as such, the charade of social choice through democracy might just as well determine immigration as well.
    Any society satisfied with its constitutional underpinnings would seemingly prefer an immigration policy that would discriminate against those clearly at odds with those underpinnings. Some groups (and we all know who) just need to be discriminated against and since the state is not an institution that should be allowed to discriminate, that leaves the citizenry.

  15. I’m not clear on what you’re saying in the second paragraph. In particular that citizens should discriminate against those they don’t like. I support free speech and the right of private business owners (women only gyms, child free restaurants and, in a recent case, a religious persons right not be forced to photograph a gay wedding) even though I often disagree with their issues. Pre-civil rights type discrimination, OTOH, is no longer acceptable.
    Anyway, massive immigration in Europe and UK combined with a patronizing and class snobbery attitude by politicians has led to the creation of race-based gangs and political parties that have the potential to get very ugly. If mainstream political parties do not address the problem in a proactive manner then more radical elements will. The Conservatives in Canada and Liberals in Australia seem to have found a way to maintain beneficial immigration, curb the worst parts of multiculturalism, connect with immigrants and prevent anti-immigrant groups from forming. It’s got to be a bit embarrassing that “colonials” are turning out to be so much more successful than the highbrows across the ocean.

  16. I’ll get excited about Abbot when he makes positive change. His maternal leave and pay scheme is a disaster.
    BC is not as left-wing as it gets made out to be. Campbell was very right-wing.
    Ignoring the evidence presented by those most affected by uncontrolled immigration, people in poor and working class neighborhoods, is a bad idea.
    You’re right. We should absolutely act on the evidence-and the evidence is clear: immigration is always beneficial. More immigration = more prosperity, end of story.
    Any society satisfied with its constitutional underpinnings would seemingly prefer an immigration policy that would discriminate against those clearly at odds with those underpinnings.
    Any society that uses the force of government to shape its immigration stream according to opinions has immoral underpinnings and needs to be altered by mass immigration. Thank goodness for mass immigration. Only it can wash out the statist sin of Canada and Britain.

  17. 26 weeks mat leave is a disaster?
    No. In Canada it’s a year…and it should be more. Mat leave is the best social conservative policy a government can implement.

  18. I wouldn’t be so quick to dismiss the negative side of mass immigration : Greek police referring citizens to anti-immigrant gangs, French CarBQs, UK EDL and no-go zones in Sweden. Add in welfare abuse, squatters, strain on public education (ESL) and there is real problems. All of which affect what one writer called the “non-exotic” underclass. The ruling class, who are generally not affected by the above problems, have failed miserably in addressing these concerns.
    BTW, controlled immigration is not the same as being anti-immigration. Immigrants are an essential part of a growing economy. But evidence showed that family class, especially elderly relatives, immigration was a net loss for Canada so the policy changed. I’d bet that a country by country, skills and education, crime and welfare statistical breakdown would also show meaningful trends. It’s not unusual for research to be biased by politics and career advancement so a thorough study by skeptics would give a more complete picture.

  19. She didn’t go for the pipeline. Which should tell you how good a Business person she is.
    She threw away 300,000,000 a year. Not including about 50,000 jobs.
    Nice going Crispy cream.
    Now all that money will go through to Ontario. The jobs out East.

  21. LAS, where did you get the idea that Campbell was “right wing”? He was a moronic statist CAGW ideologue and great fan of crony capitalism. The only difference between the two parties in BC politics is that one has a group of kleptocrats who either reward their crony capitalist buddies or their union buddies. Aside from the constituencies they extort money for, I can’t see any difference between the BC parties. They seem to be equally inclined in endlessly passing more and more statist regulations. The best thing that could happen to this province would be a meteor strike on the BC legislature when the government was in session.
    While I’ll be paying for the increasing cost of heating, I would love to see Gaia hit BC with a very cold winter, especially a few months of snow in Vancouver which would likely shut it down completely. Problem with the moronic carbon tax is that in the area of BC where I live there is so much beetle kill pine that the only carbon tax that many people pay is on the cost of gasoline for their chainsaw and pickup to load up with a winters worth of firewood. Was amazed at how many people who live in the country heat with wood.
    Unfortunately BC has become home to an unsustainable number of moonbats and there should be some controlled hunts to decrease their numbers. I find it amusing when some of my patients in Vancouver were appalled when I told them I was heading for the interior as “it’s all rednecks out there!”. Feel right at home whereas I never felt at home in Vancouver.
    Unfortunately, when people think of BC, Vancouver comes to mind which is just a tiny chunk of this province and home to about 95% of the moonbattery of BC. If the moonbats would stay in Vancouver it wouldn’t be so bad but they have the urge to impose their ideas on parts of BC that they never visit. Opposition to the Alberta pipeline across BC is almost universally a Vancouver phenomenon; where I live there’s almost universal support for the pipeline. The main opposition I see to the Keystone pipeline locally is from people who believe we should be getting world prices for our oil and not subsidizing the leftist USSA.
    CC is a city politician and thus hated in the countryside. She’s a brainless moonbat and has drunk deeply of the CAGW koolaid. There’s, unfortunately, no other provincial party that could break BC out of it’s statist downward spiral as the Marijuana party is no more although it could be recreated again in the future as the success of the Marijuana party in the 2002 provincial election was as a result of Marc Emery funding the party but not leading it and finding a real Libertarian to lead it. Marc is too single interest; he’s a good businessman but will support anyone who’ll decriminalize weed. The interior of BC is redneck, working class and surprisingly Libertarian. Most people are too busy working to worry much about politics but their Libertarian bent is illustrated when they make an offhand remark about their neighbor’s personal cannabis grow op who they’d never think of reporting since it’s none of their business.
    BC’s kleptocracy is addicted to tax revenues and currently uses the CAGW meme to tax things which are not excessively taxed anywhere else. Any computer hardware in BC is subject to “recycling fees” and the simplest way to protest these would be to dump broken keyboards and computers on the lawns of local MLA’s. As DanBC notes, most of Vancouver’s economy is service industries but, in the interior, there’s real wealth being produced despite the interference of the Victoria morons. The main way people in the interior get around BC taxes is to claim they reside in Alberta (where they work the bulk of the year) and own a property in BC. Even in the winter S. central BC is a far nicer place to be than N. Alberta. There’s huge hydroelectric potential in BC that’s being ignored due to the governments CAGW agenda. If the people in the interior weren’t so busy working, I think there would be a far greater movement to ditch the coastal moonbats and join up with Alberta.

  22. CC stopped the carbon tax for 5 years.Not fully stopped but by then who knows. The Feds control the pipeline.

  23. LC said, “It’s got to be a bit embarrassing that “colonials” are turning out to be so much more successful than the highbrows across the ocean.”
    Faulty premise. The colonials were built on immigration, they have the most experience with it.
    The ‘old country’ specialized in emigration, it makes sense that they are bad at controlling the influx of undesirables.

  24. I think you missed the point. Of course colonials are more experienced but the aristocrats and technocrats at EU central give the impression that they are infallible. Yet from climate change mitigation schemes to bailouts to immigration they’ve failed miserably. It’s the arrogance that I am mocking.

  25. “..Mat leave is the best social conservative policy a government can implement.”
    Agreed. Just like it was during the baby boom: unpaid and voluntary.

  26. Loki;
    Pretty concise analysis of BC’s situation.
    I would add that the ‘moonbats’ are funded in many cases by ‘outsiders’ who want to influence the political and economic direction of the province. They have been very successful in their anti-development campaign.
    The federal CPC should be very concerened about what is happening in BC. IMHO PMSH should have CSIS investigating outside funding. There are international interests which would love to bottleneck Canadian crude in Alberta. It is a national security issue.

  27. I think you give the admittedly imperfect Campbell short shrift. He cut the environment ministry and slashed taxes. He took on teachers unions though I will admit he did not go as far as he should have. The carbon tax was stupid but really the least harmful Gaia-sacrifice sop one could make. Implementing the HST over the heads of the peon masses was a great idea and it is a disgrace that he had to resign over that. CC sucks but I think she is at least serious about resource development and I believe this development will alter BC’s political balance at great medium and long-term cost to the power of the Vic-Van Axis of Derp.
    Concerning forced recycling fees: aren’t there ways around this, like ordering parts online and getting them delivered by mail? Building your own machine is a cinch and you save money.
    I wouldn’t be so quick to dismiss the negative side of mass immigration : Greek police referring citizens to anti-immigrant gangs, French CarBQs, UK EDL and no-go zones in Sweden. Add in welfare abuse, squatters, strain on public education (ESL) and there is real problems. All of which affect what one writer called the “non-exotic” underclass. The ruling class, who are generally not affected by the above problems, have failed miserably in addressing these concerns.
    All of this is a result of welfare statism or host nation racism or, in the case of welfare abuse, doesn’t exist (immigrants use welfare less than the natives). In most European countries it is far harder to get citizenship than in Canada. Singapore’s policy of mass immigration is one of the biggest reasons they are so prosperous. Canada’s relatively easier immigration system, compared to America’s, is one reason we got through the downturn so much better than they did.

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