Old Guy

I don't think there is any doubt that Pollievre will win regardless of who is in power in BC or for that matter any other Province. In my opinion governments have a shelve life and the Federal Libs went stale more than a year ago. Similar to what happened to Harper in 2015. So turn over is a good thing. Of course I know that neither of the party's I support will ever form government so my hope always is for a minority government because minority governments are more willing to listen to opposing ideas and to find compromises. The polarity that is taking place world wide is not a good thing IMHO. I also agree with you that increasing immigration as much as what happened is not a good thing either. Your point about doctors was a good example but so to is our housing crisis. Although I think it was mostly rich Asians that drove that bubble rather than poor Latinos. Many of the immigrants coming in are refugees and are treated differently. Many leaving war zones whether from armies or gangs. This is a problem that will need wider solutions with northern countries working together. I think you meant Russtad rather than Rumstead. He and his government does concern me if in fact he doesn't believe in climate change. Cancelling the Carbon Tax won't effect me. There might be a short period where the price at the pumps drop but I'm confident that the government will find a way to recoup any loss in revenue and or the oil companies will do their best to siphon some into their profits. No my concern has more to do with consigning science to the realm of alternative facts. I'm enjoying this forum but for a while I'm going to be a sporadic poster while I care for my daughter who for some time will need a care taker. Cheers

Right you are.

Was it PT Barnum who said, There is a sucker born every minute." If the palace revolt succeeds it will be interesting to know who the sucker turns out to be.

The article by the Policy Alternatives make a fairly well reasoned case using 2011 numbers that BC was underfunding caused by lower revenues due to tax cuts. Imagine a conservative government lowering taxes and cutting services. I wonder if that has anything to strategic shortages we are experiencing today. I remember in the 80's Bill Bennet cut 10,000 government workers. He knew that lots of those folks were doing jobs that would be missed so his government encouraged them to set up societies and offered them premiums to do so. He was a hero to conservatives and many former public servants who laughed all the way to the bank. BC was the third lowest province for funding per population of any province. The article also points out that public service includes Crown Corps 8%, Provincial Government 9%, Federal Government 10%, Post Secondary Institutions 13%, Local Government including Police and Fire Departments 15%, Public Schools K-12 18%, Health and Social Service 27%. Your contention that your numbers excluded Health, which is not the case at least in the articles you posted. I would like to see your math including where you came up with the percentage of Public workers. When I calculate the number of people employed 2,821,000 X 18% = 507,780. But you state that it is closer to 25% which would yield 705,250. So which is is it. You also stated that many agencies were doing the same job can you clarify? As far as the Fraser Institute bulletin you posted they seem to be upset that the public sector was more effective at filling vacancies than the private sector due in large measure to better salaries and benefits like sick leave, and pensions. Imagine those rascals offering a living wage. It will be interesting to see what Rustad and his Merry Band of Wingnuts will do. Oh yeah what conservatives always do cut taxes and services.

Older than you apparently and I'm sorry if the metaphor is so old that you are struggling with its meaning although I would bet you did.

Well maybe Alberta will lower the bar enough that white men who eschewed science instead of paper airplanes can qualify.

My bad I missed your earlier post but I will answer it because just a quick glance tells me you are adept at pulling numbers out of your but. There are not 500,000 people employed by the provincial civil service its more like 38,000. I have to make dinner so may not make it back tonight.

OMG I find myself agreeing with you. Although there is no accounting for the lure of fame no matter how fleeting.

Yep I agree, although to be fair Kim C was only meant to be a place holder until Mulroney got his ducks in order. I think she would have been a good PM although a bit too red for the Tories at the time.

I wonder what his plan is? Will he launch a court challenge and take it back to the supreme court where FN have already won? I think Canada should test for and disallow ideologs from gaining public office. There are lots of more productive things they can use their fervor for. Used Car Salesman, Evangelical Minister, TV Special Promotion Salesman. Circus Clown I mean the list is endless.

You can always tell a conservative because faced with a well reasoned argument they rely on resort to name calling.

I agree since that is what is generally used for. Harper did it twice. In 2017 a poll showed that 80% of Canadians favored limiting the power of the PM to Prorogue Parliament. The supreme court ruled this could only be done with a change to the constitution. Truth is no PM will willingly give away an ounce of power.

It doesn't mater this year or next the Liberals are going to go down in flames. The only thing to be determined is which party will sit in opposition, the NDP or the Bloc. Funny if it turns out to be the Bloc - imagine an opposition party that will have run candidates in only one province. I guess the only other question is how badly PP the Elite Politician manages to screw our economy into the ground by selling off our national assets.

Well it will be difficult to not respond to your deranged rants but I will do my best. Enjoy your fairy tales. But I will continue to believe that Israel as a country has a right to exist as does Palestine. The difference is that Israel will have to agree that Palestine also has a right to exist and they will have to share the land as they agreed to do.

Wow he finally did something right. I hope that if Netanyahu succeeds in drawing the US into a war with Iran we stay out of that as well but with PP the professional politician I'm afraid we will.

A farmer leaving his village to tend his olive grove may very well have to produce his papers. He may also run into a militant settler and be beaten up or even killed. The IDF can and does enter the West Bank in force without Palestinian permission. Comparing the border between countries is completely different because Israel occupies all of Palestine through its control of where and when Palestinian people can go.

The school and its curriculum has been accredited, The licencing board hasn't announced any changes. The fact is that there is a serious doctor and nurse shortage across Canada and especially in remote areas. The only thing that the article I read mentions as a change is the C-Med which I take it is a premed exam which discriminates against poorer students because of its expense. Intersectionality wouldn't be a thing if we were all born equal and the opportunities we had were roughly the same but they aren't. So me as a white male born into a middle class family had fewer struggles than someone born black into a poor dysfunctional family. As a white male can I hope to relate with an indigenous person. I can try but I'm betting I will come up short. I know that white folks want to storm the gates whenever our white privilege is threatened but maybe we should ride in the back of the bus just to get a feel for what that's been like for others. Just to clarify that's a metaphor.

Ah come on eyeball you must have noticed the Liberals picking in to find something they can run on but never enact.

In the last 25 years that I've lived in this town I have never had a Canadian born doctor. I had a Russian followed by three successive South Africans and then an East Asian. My new doctor is a East Asian as well. I count myself lucky because I have had a doctor. There is no reason to believe that an indigenous doctor will be less competent than a white doctor. In fact they might be better.

Take a minute or two and read this act. It doesn't necessarily prevent weather modification but it could if the chemicals were dangerous. This act came into effect in 1985, nearly 40 years ago.

Here is an act that came into effect in 1985 and remains in effect now. You could make a request for the reports filed under this act since 1985. In fact you would think that if there was a danger the conspirators would have found out and been blasting the news everywhere. Instead they make vague assertions that its the military that they are poisoning us, that it is private companies. I do believe there were efforts made to seed clouds to produce rain in drought areas.

So then according to your belief When Jordan, Egypt, the UAE, Morocco, Bahrain and Sudan with Qatar and Saudi Arabia to follow their Muslim populations stopped being Muslim. More correctly that land has been occupied by Semitic peoples for thousands of years. You probably didn't know that Arabs are a Semitic people along with the Jews. It has nothing to do with religion since there are Jews, Muslims, Christian and Gnostics. There seems to be competing explanations as to the motive. I'm sorry that you choose to live in a world where there is a boogy man round every corner. Are you by any chance a conservative.

Israel had almost total support a year ago but over time and because of their far and away disproportionate response that support is disappearing.

He will need to look up what the IDF is and then he might stumble across how the IDF was first formed from three Zionist paramilitary organization one of which was labeled by the US and UK as a terrorist group.

Do you actually believe that all Muslim Arabs are inter-changeable with one another? That an Iraqi can move to Beirut and settle in just like its home. You seem to think that they all think the same and believe the same way. Just think for a minute No religion is monolithic everyone of them have any number of sects that divide them one from the other. Perhaps you are the one who needs to read some history and not the history written by some Zionist apologist. Zionists began their attack against Palestinians before they were officially recognized as a country. Europe and America had so much guilt for not stopping the holocaust sooner that they facilitated the surviving Jews return to Palestine. The Jewish people have used that guilt to get everything they have asked for. Anyone who waves the anti-Semite card like you did when you accused all Muslims of wanting Israel to be wiped out and that that's how I think as well is just wrong. I do believe Israel has a right to exist and I think most Muslims do as well. Oh and I'm not an Islamist. Whether there is ever going to be peace there depends on both factions negotiating as equals.