Premier Christy's looonnngg fingers

[squirt10]

No Ms Clark(s) b.c government is not a card caring Federal Liberal, her party are Consevatives a follower of Harper, the party name is confusing to some voters. That's how she got in in west Kelowna...all" consevatives "including her campaign manager RJ Bennett.

[flamingfingers]

No Ms Clark(s) b.c government is not a card caring Federal Liberal, her party are Consevatives a follower of Harper, the party name is confusing to some voters. That's how she got in in west Kelowna...all" consevatives "including her campaign manager RJ Bennett.

That is true; however, Christy would be ANY political stripe that was able to keep her in power.

[Smurf]

Urbane I don't know who is right or wrong but an SFU report seems to disagree completely with the information you gave from Andrew Coyne.

His report compiles a number of other studies, including data on home-buying trends, population density, the cancelled immigrant investor program, and American research on the same issue.

Gordon said his report blames Vancouver's housing crisis on foreign buyers, particularly from China, because "this is where the evidence points, not because of some anti-Chinese animus."

Chinese investors have also spiked home prices in the Toronto region, but Vancouver has seen the highest rise in real estate due to the influx of foreign money reaching an unprecedented level in the last year, he said.

Gordon noted that other countries, including Australia and Singapore, have created policies for foreign homebuyers to protect their own citizens but that hasn't happened in Canada.

The report, titled "Vancouver's Housing Affordability Crisis: Causes, Consequences and Solutions," says political inaction has allowed the problem to grow.

"By linking the crisis unambiguously to foreign ownership and investment, documenting the major harms of the affordability crisis, and proposing a policy route out of the current mess, the report hopes to harness the city's resentment and dispel its resignation."

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-c ... -1.3572499

The full report which I have not read yet.

https://www.sfu.ca/content/dam/sfu/mpp/ ... ersion.pdf

[Urbane]

^^ I believe the Province article that was quoted (the one that got us off topic here) referenced that report. Here's a couple of short excerpts and a link to an excellent column that examines the issue further:

Yuen Pau Woo
It’s too easy to blame ‘outsiders’ for Vancouver’s housing woes

For all the ink that has been spilled on the issue of housing affordability in Vancouver, relatively little insight has been advanced, with even less written on practical solutions to the problem. Much of the commentary has had a breathless quality to it – as if the discovery of sky-high housing prices in Vancouver was tantamount to an exposé of high crimes and grave injustices.

Don’t get me wrong: The affordability of housing in Vancouver is a serious issue that needs to be addressed. But the mob hunt for villains has resulted in earnest reporting of dubious facts to fit the crime scene, and equally dodgy answers to a problem that resists quick fixes. All of which caters to a public that loves reducing complex social issues to simple morality plays.

The reality is that demand for single-family housing in Metro Vancouver exceeds supply. Any addition to demand will add further pressure to prices. There is a case for surcharges on real estate purchases by foreigners and against speculators, but the underlying demand for Vancouver real estate from natural increases in the population, as well as from migration (domestic and international), will keep prices high for the foreseeable future.

Full column: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/ ... e29514052/

Anyway, Vancouver house prices are a serious issue for those wanting to buy a house there and the issue should probably discussed in its own thread. I made a comment about our relatively strong economy and a poster pointed to the high Vancouver house prices and the supposed unlivability of the city as evidence to the contrary.

As to the subject of this thread, voters may disagree with Christy Clark about the corporate and union donations and they may not care for her party stipend but they don't want to kill Site C and other projects. So Clark and the Liberals, particularly after the 2013 election, know that they can get away with a lot of things that the voters don't like. It's not a pretty picture but the huge consolation prize is that our economy is relatively strong and we should all be happy about that.

[Rwede]

No Ms Clark(s) b.c government is not a card caring Federal Liberal, her party are Consevatives a follower of Harper, the party name is confusing to some voters. That's how she got in in west Kelowna...all" consevatives "including her campaign manager RJ Bennett.

Wrong, on all accounts. Christy Clark is a member of the Liberal Party of Canada and even worked for the party.

While many saw Clark as the best hope for the party there were fears that Clark's past background with the federal Liberal Party could fracture the party.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christy_Clark

In 1993, Clark moved to Ottawa to head the federal Liberals’ scrappy youth wing with Marissen.

http://www.macleans.ca/politics/christy ... eback-kid/

RJ Bennett was never her campaign manager, and RJ Bennett did not support the province's Conservatives.

RJ Bennett was a Social Credit supporter, as his late brother Bill and father WAC Bennett were leaders of the Social Credit Party.

[Thunder River]

We're going to have an entertaining election coming up, Christy Clark is going to have to fight tooth and nail to show that she isn't connected to Trudeau or the Federal Liberals, John Horgan is going to have to show he isn't part of the idiotic LEAP wing of the NDP.

[flamingfingers]

Rafe Mair knows the whole background:

Tuesday, May 10, 2016
This Day In Conflictyland...Rafe Climbs (All The Way) On Board.
RememberWhenThe'98WasReallyA
GiantVille

Regarding both Ms. Clark and, perhaps more importantly, her government's Conflict Commissioner:

"...I remember you when you were smart, Paul. But I suppose I shouldn't be surprised, since you don't think that the fact of your son's long and close friendship with Clark and that he is a politically appointed deputy minister in her government places you in a conflict of interest! Hell, Paul, you're probably right. I mean, who would ever dream that a lawyer making $269,000 a year from a legislature made up largely of Liberals would consider it in his interest to keep those Liberals kindly disposed towards him?..."

http://pacificgazette.blogspot.ca/

[Gone_Fishin]

That's how she got in in west Kelowna...all" consevatives "including her campaign manager RJ Bennett.

RJ was her campaign manager? Well stop the presses folks, we need to rewrite that section in the history books, because they definitely don't state that!

[alfred2]

as long as the ndp is the only other party , clark and co. will win again. we need a party with common sense not idiots. after living in two different provinces under the ndp,i can not see people with common sense vote for them.so we are stuck with the lesser of two evils.

[maryjane48]

As the premier of British Columbia, Christy Clark is on the public payroll, pulling down a salary of 195,000 Canadian dollars in taxpayer money. But if that were not enough, she also gets an annual stipend of up to 50,000 Canadian dollars — nearly $40,000 — from her party, financed by political contributions.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/01/13/w ... clark.html

[Hassel99]

As the premier of British Columbia, Christy Clark is on the public payroll, pulling down a salary of 195,000 Canadian dollars in taxpayer money. But if that were not enough, she also gets an annual stipend of up to 50,000 Canadian dollars — nearly $40,000 — from her party, financed by political contributions.

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/01/13/w ... clark.html

New to politics in Canada?

This is pretty common knowledge and has been in Canadian news many times.

[flamingfingers]

^^And that makes corruption completely acceptable to you?

cor·rup·tion
kəˈrəpSH(ə)n/
noun
1.
dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power, typically involving bribery.
"the journalist who wants to expose corruption in high places"
synonyms: dishonesty, unscrupulousness, double-dealing, fraud, fraudulence, misconduct, crime, criminality, wrongdoing; More
2.
the process by which something, typically a word or expression, is changed from its original use or meaning to one that is regarded as erroneous or debased.
synonyms: alteration, bastardization, debasement, adulteration
"these figures have been subject to corruption"

https://www.google.ca/webhp?sourceid=ch ... definition

[Merry]

This kind of thing is illegal in just about every other Province except BC.

[Hassel99]

Already have a thread on this topic.

viewtopic.php?f=26&t=67230

[maryjane48]

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