Adrian Dix

[NAB]

Na, somehow I think not. He may not be saying the things the extremists among the right wing want to hear, but at least he has the guts to say them and be consistent in his ideology. I'll take that in government any day over having to wake up each day and wonder what the Liberals or their leader have screwed up or changed their mind on in the last 24 hours.

Nab

[The Green Barbarian]

Na, somehow I think not. He may not be saying the things the extremists among the right wing want to hear, but at least he has the guts to say them and be consistent in his ideology. I'll take that in government any day over having to wake up each day and wonder what the Liberals or their leader have screwed up or changed their mind on in the last 24 hours.

Nab

well you really are willing to accept an extremely low bar, aren't you? Sure - he is consistent in his cowardice and his "WE CAN'T DO IT!!!" solution to every problem, and I know this plays well with old people who are scared of any progress, and mush-heads who are scared of their own shadows, but it doesn't play well with people who understand that this is just laziness and cowardice. You can tell yourself that this only resonates with "extremists" and keep telling yourself that to make yourself feel better about supporting cowardice and backward thinking, but that's just you selling BC short, and accepting garbage for leadership, and that sir, is your problem.

[NAB]

Nope. It has become EVERYONE'S problem now. In its attempts to satisfy everyone (at huge expense to the taxpayers I might add), this government has satisfied no one. Hell, they cannot even run the relatively petty by comparison legislature budget itself according to GAAP. We have a totally out of control bureaucracy and no one with the guts and ability to get it under control.

Edit to add: BTW, at least Dix has the experience, knowledge, and ability to converse in the bureaucracies' own language. Perhaps he will be a plus when it comes time to get it straightened out. It wouldn't appear this government is particularly interested in facing up to them, but then they can deliver a lot of votes this government will sorely need if it is to survive.

Nab

[The Green Barbarian]

Edit to add: BTW, at least Dix has the experience, knowledge, and ability to converse in the bureaucracies' own language. Perhaps he wikll be a plus when it comes time to get it straightened out. It weouldn't appear this government is particularly interested in facing up to them.

Nab

:dyinglaughing:

yes he knows how to back-date memos - so that's the bureaucracies own language eh? :dyinglaughing: Your apologist nonsense on behalf of Dix is just embarrassing Nab, it really is.

[NAB]

Ya. Sorta along the lines of "it takes one to know one" as the saying goes LOL. Experience is a great teacher. In fact, first hand rather than second hand "book larnin" experience is probably, at the end of the day, the best teacher.

Nab

[Rwede]

:dyinglaughing:

yes he knows how to back-date memos - so that's the bureaucracies own language eh? :dyinglaughing: Your apologist nonsense on behalf of Dix is just embarrassing Nab, it really is.

Back-dating that memo earned Dix a cool $70,000 from the taxpayers of BC. Imagine how many 70¢ haircuts that is.

I find it repulsive that Dix is paid $70,000 of our money after committing a criminal act. His criminal activity should have resulted in dismissal WITH cause, for which NO severance is payable. He should also have been prosecuted to the full extent of the law. But no, Daddy Glen gave him a present, and the corrupt AG at the time swept the criminal charges under the rug to save face for Glen and the rest of the scandal-ridden, corrupt NDP.

The theft of $1 million from taxpayers to fund the NDP election campaign just set the stage for this crap to happen, and the lapdogs on here want to go right back to the same criminals who ruined BC in the 1990s.

[Rwede]

Well here's something interesting. I was perusing the NDP's newsletter, and in 12 pages, there are 6 advertisements by trade unions. What's up with that? Dix has been telling us that Big Labour doesn't run the NDP. It looks like he is full of BS, again!


http://www.bcndp.ca/files/uploads/1109-Democrat-Web.pdf

[logicalview]

The theft of $1 million from taxpayers to fund the NDP election campaign just set the stage for this crap to happen, and the lapdogs on here want to go right back to the same criminals who ruined BC in the 1990s.

They're bona fide members of Dix's Farm Team.

[logicalview]

Holy crap. It's a Dixomercial.

Speaking about his numbness....



Only the Dix would use a picture of a freighter with "TANKER" photoshopped on the side to oppose a pipeline. If he burned up a few more brain cells he could have used a picture of a pipeline.

[Rwede]

Annual BCGEU donations to Adrian Dix and the NDP:

2005: $254.948.25
2006: $10,954.00
2007: $86,263.00
2008: $79,311.72
2009: $511,067.87
2010: $157,770.64

[logicalview]

That's enough to make Adrian a 1%er.

[maple leaf]

Annual BCGEU donations to Adrian Dix and the NDP:

2005: $254.948.25
2006: $10,954.00
2007: $86,263.00
2008: $79,311.72
2009: $511,067.87
2010: $157,770.64

Why would they donate anything to the Liberal party ,who rips up contracts,then enforces illegal contracts,which the BCGEU have to spend years fighting in courts .Then have the Liberal government refuse to bargain in good faith,coming to the table with a pre determined outcome of nothing and an attitude of accept it or be legislated back to work.Furthe more anyone with any brains at all would never donate anything to this corrupt,self serving incompetent Liberal government.Hope they give even more in 2012 and all vote NDP too.

[mrs.bandaid]

Hey smartie, any tables for the contributions to the Liberals from big business? I'm sure the guys trying to buy the liquor distribution have paid a few bills into their coffers.

[goatboy]

Why would they donate anything to the Liberal party ,who rips up contracts,then enforces illegal contracts,which the BCGEU have to spend years fighting in courts .Then have the Liberal government refuse to bargain in good faith,coming to the table with a pre determined outcome of nothing and an attitude of accept it or be legislated back to work.Furthe more anyone with any brains at all would never donate anything to this corrupt,self serving incompetent Liberal government.Hope they give even more in 2012 and all vote NDP too.

Guess you didn't know, or conveniently chose to ignore the two contracts imposed on teachers by the NDP, huh?

Collective agreements imposed by NDP governments:
Since 1994, NDP governments intervened in both rounds of teacher bargaining.
1996: Bill 21 In May 1996 BCPSE and BCTF agreed to a Transitional Collective Agreement (TCA) temporarily extending the expired local collective agreements until 30 June 1998 and requiring negotiations to resume in March 1997. The TCA was reached against the backdrop of the NDP government’s implicit threat to impose a collective agreement. It had passed Bill 21 shortly before the spring 1996 provincial Election. Bill 21, the Education and Health Collective Bargaining Assistance Act allowed an industrial inquiry commissioner or mediator appointed under the Labour Code to impose a collective agreement.
1998: Bill 39 In the next round the NDP government negotiated directly with BCTF for a three year “Agreement in Committee” (AIC) and an ancillary Memorandum of Agreement in K-3 Primary Class Size. This was apparently done without BCPSEA’s involvement or knowledge. BCPSEA and some school boards opposed the AIC, concerned that it was too costly and uncertain. The NDP government soon passed Bill 39, the Public Education Collective Agreement Act, imposing the AIC as the provincial collective agreement.

http://conversationsonwork.wordpress.com/2012/02/26/once-again-back-to-work-legislation-for-bc-teachers-2/

[George+]

Here's the whole story:

http://www.surreyleader.com/news/146180955.html

BUT the looks on the other Liberal Mla's faces'
pretty much says it ALL!