Liberal Party.

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I guess the Liberals now have 11 million tax payers dollars to spend on advertising leading up to the next election and we will not find out just were or for what it was spent on until after the next election.Convinient!So look forward to being bombarded with Liberal propaganda from here till the next election .Kind of like North Korea does with their citizens.And just saying oh well they all do it doesn't make it ok.And do they all do it to the extent of 11 million tax payers dollars.Campbell only spent 17.5 million for everything in his last year,Christy Clark is out of control with a blank check.64 million on advertising since she took over.


But the biggest ticket item is the second instalment of advertising promoting the jobs strategy. The Liberals set aside $11 million for that purpose from the contingency budget without saying anything about when, how and where it will be spent. Details to come when the public accounts are released next July, meaning after the election.
But even without any further details, Christy Clark's running total for spending on advertising tops out at $64 million and counting.
And for those needing a point of comparison, that is twice what the government spends on parks in a given year, three times what it spends on arts, culture and sports, and half again as much as the annual funding for crime prevention and the victims of crime.
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Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Ch ... z2DS8cCGyr

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These "reports" that come out from advocacy groups are such a load of bull

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The report was from First Call BC,yes an advocacy group.Does that make the numbers from statistics Canada invalid?

First Call BC, a child and youth advocacy coalition of more than 90 provincial organizations and 25 communities, says the latest Statistics Canada numbers peg B.C.’s child-poverty rate at 14.3 per cent, with the Canadian average at 13.7 per cent.

Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/business/ce ... z2CzD3Wpmk

Hmm, First Call coalition partners include:

BCGEU (BC Government and Service Employees' Union)
BC Teachers' Federation
Hospital Employees' Union


Art's right. An advocacy group funded in part by unions looking to oust the government for their own greedy, selfish purposes.

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Big business would never spend many, many times as much to fund a government would they.

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Big business would never spend many, many times as much to fund a government would they.

Does that make union political interference in child poverty issues okay?

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Hmmmm, extreme bias (and possibly phobia) noted when statement like those of wede are lifted out of context of the full list of funders, as well as partners... And the organizations title shortened from its proper "First Call BC Child and Youth Advocacy Coalition".

First Call is grateful for the support of our funders:
-United Way of the lower mainland
-Vancouver Foundation
-Coast Capital Savings
-The Law Foundation of BC
-VanCity CU

Our Coalition Partner Organizations:

Adoptive Families Association of BC
Affiliation of Multicultural Societies and Service Agencies
Alternate Shelter Society
Association for Community Education BC
Association of Neighbourhood Houses of British Columbia
ACT - Autism Community Training Society
Autism Society of BC
BC Aboriginal Child Care Society
BC Association for Child Development and Intervention
BC Association for Community Living
BC Association of Child Care Employers
BC Association of Family Resource Programs
BC Association of Pregnancy Outreach Programs
BC Association of Social Workers
BC Centre for Safe Schools and Communities
BC Council for Families
BC Crime Prevention Association
BC Federation of Foster Parent Associations
BCGEU (BC Government and Service Employees' Union)
BC Pediatric Society
BC Play Therapy Association
BC Recreation and Parks Association
BC Retired Teachers' Association
BC School Trustees' Association
BC Society for Public Education
BC Society of Transition Houses
BC Teachers' Federation
Big Sisters of BC Lower Mainland
Boys and Girls Clubs of BC
Breakfast for Learning BC & Yukon
Canadian Association for Young Children
Canadian Federation of Students - BC
Canadian Jewish Congress, Pacific Region
Canadian Mental Health Association BC Division
Canadian Red Cross RespectED
Capilano Students' Union
Caring for First Nations Children Society
CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children) of Greater Victoria
Cerebral Palsy Association of BC
Child and Youth Care Association of BC
Children's and Women's Health Centre of BC
Coalition of Child Care Advocates BC
Columbia/Kootenay Advocacy and Education Resource Society
Communities that Care - Squamish
Community Action Toward Children's Health
Council of Parent Participation Preschools in BC
Deaf Children's Society of BC
Developmental Disabilities Association
Dietitians of Canada, BC Region
Directorate of Agencies for School Health BC
Early Childhood Educators of BC
East Kootenay Childhood Coalition
Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver
Family Services of Greater Vancouver
Federated Anti-Poverty Groups
Federation of BC Youth in Care Networks
Federation of Community Social Services of BC
Health Officer's Council of British Columbia
Helping Spirit Lodge
Hospital Employees' Union
Immigrant Services Society of BC
Infant Development Program of BC
Island JADE Society
Justice Institute of BC
Learning Disabilities Association of BC
Literacy BC
Mary Manning Centre
McCreary Centre Society
MOSAIC
National Council of Jewish Women of Canada
Pacific Association of First Nations Women
Pacific Community Resources Society
Pacific Immigrant Resources Society
PLEA Community Services Society of BC
Provincial Association of Residential & Community Agencies
Parent Support Services Society of BC
PeerNetBC
Penticton & District Community Resources Society
Phoenix Human Services Association
Progressive Intercultural Community Services Society
Public Health Association of BC
Social Planning & Research Council of BC (SPARC)
Society for Children and Youth of BC
S.U.C.C.E.S.S.
Summit Negotiations Society
Sunshine Coast Community Services Society
Take a Hike Youth At Risk Foundation
Toxic Free Canada
United Way of the Lower Mainland
University Women's Club of Vancouver
Vancouver Coastal Health - Population Health
West Coast Legal Education and Action Fund
Westcoast Child Care Resource Centre
Westcoast Family Centres Society
Western Society for Children
Women Against Violence Against Women
YWCA of Greater Vancouver

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Toxic Free Canada

Bunch of real winners on that list!

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The report was from First Call BC,yes an advocacy group.Does that make the numbers from statistics Canada invalid?

First Call BC, a child and youth advocacy coalition of more than 90 provincial organizations and 25 communities, says the latest Statistics Canada numbers peg B.C.’s child-poverty rate at 14.3 per cent, with the Canadian average at 13.7 per cent.

Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/business/cent+child+poverty+rate+ranks+second+worst+Canada+says+report/7588641/story.html#ixzz2CzD3Wpmk


Hmm, First Call coalition partners include:

BCGEU (BC Government and Service Employees' Union)
BC Teachers' Federation
Hospital Employees' Union


Art's right. An advocacy group funded in part by unions looking to oust the government for their own greedy, selfish purposes.

And you never answered the question.It maters not who makes up the group,what maters is what the group is stating and they are relaying the findings of Statistics Canada,with Statistics Canada's numbers,numbers that everyone in Canada except you and Art have excepted.Not their own made up numbers.Until you dispute those numbers you have nothing.

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Hmmmm, extreme bias (and possibly phobia) noted when statement like those of wede are lifted out of context of the full list of funders, as well as partners... And the organizations title shortened from its proper "First Call BC Child and Youth Advocacy Coalition".

First Call is grateful for the support of our funders:
-United Way of the lower mainland
-Vancouver Foundation
-Coast Capital Savings
-The Law Foundation of BC
-VanCity CU

Our Coalition Partner Organizations:

Adoptive Families Association of BC
Affiliation of Multicultural Societies and Service Agencies
Alternate Shelter Society
Association for Community Education BC
Association of Neighbourhood Houses of British Columbia
ACT - Autism Community Training Society
Autism Society of BC
BC Aboriginal Child Care Society
BC Association for Child Development and Intervention
BC Association for Community Living
BC Association of Child Care Employers
BC Association of Family Resource Programs
BC Association of Pregnancy Outreach Programs
BC Association of Social Workers
BC Centre for Safe Schools and Communities
BC Council for Families
BC Crime Prevention Association
BC Federation of Foster Parent Associations
BCGEU (BC Government and Service Employees' Union)
BC Pediatric Society
BC Play Therapy Association
BC Recreation and Parks Association
BC Retired Teachers' Association
BC School Trustees' Association
BC Society for Public Education
BC Society of Transition Houses
BC Teachers' Federation
Big Sisters of BC Lower Mainland
Boys and Girls Clubs of BC
Breakfast for Learning BC & Yukon
Canadian Association for Young Children
Canadian Federation of Students - BC
Canadian Jewish Congress, Pacific Region
Canadian Mental Health Association BC Division
Canadian Red Cross RespectED
Capilano Students' Union
Caring for First Nations Children Society
CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates for Children) of Greater Victoria
Cerebral Palsy Association of BC
Child and Youth Care Association of BC
Children's and Women's Health Centre of BC
Coalition of Child Care Advocates BC
Columbia/Kootenay Advocacy and Education Resource Society
Communities that Care - Squamish
Community Action Toward Children's Health
Council of Parent Participation Preschools in BC
Deaf Children's Society of BC
Developmental Disabilities Association
Dietitians of Canada, BC Region
Directorate of Agencies for School Health BC
Early Childhood Educators of BC
East Kootenay Childhood Coalition
Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver
Family Services of Greater Vancouver
Federated Anti-Poverty Groups
Federation of BC Youth in Care Networks
Federation of Community Social Services of BC
Health Officer's Council of British Columbia
Helping Spirit Lodge
Hospital Employees' Union
Immigrant Services Society of BC
Infant Development Program of BC
Island JADE Society
Justice Institute of BC
Learning Disabilities Association of BC
Literacy BC
Mary Manning Centre
McCreary Centre Society
MOSAIC
National Council of Jewish Women of Canada
Pacific Association of First Nations Women
Pacific Community Resources Society
Pacific Immigrant Resources Society
PLEA Community Services Society of BC
Provincial Association of Residential & Community Agencies
Parent Support Services Society of BC
PeerNetBC
Penticton & District Community Resources Society
Phoenix Human Services Association
Progressive Intercultural Community Services Society
Public Health Association of BC
Social Planning & Research Council of BC (SPARC)
Society for Children and Youth of BC
S.U.C.C.E.S.S.
Summit Negotiations Society
Sunshine Coast Community Services Society
Take a Hike Youth At Risk Foundation
Toxic Free Canada
United Way of the Lower Mainland
University Women's Club of Vancouver
Vancouver Coastal Health - Population Health
West Coast Legal Education and Action Fund
Westcoast Child Care Resource Centre
Westcoast Family Centres Society
Western Society for Children
Women Against Violence Against Women
YWCA of Greater Vancouver

Nab.......how about you pull out all of the coalition partners in that list that do not depend on tax dollars or gov't payroll. It would be a very short list. Not hard to understand why most of these "groups" would not call for fiscal restraint is it?

Even if you buy into the spin of numbers and definition of child poverty, 14.3 vs a national ave of 13.7 and then applying statisical significance (% of potential error), BC is in line with the national average. Not suggesting this might be an acceptable number but it certainly doesn't point to a problem here that isn't experienced all across the country and every political stripe in power.

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Not meaning what was said nor saying what was meant

Box of secrets revealed to Mike de Jong
In the opening cluster of advertisements on today's Global TV noon news, a message from the Liberal Government:
"BC is stable and growing. We`re balancing budget by controlling spending..."
Global News Headline:
"A look at the books for the second quarter reveals a less than rosy picture..."
Global News Top Story
"BC`s projected deficit is close to $1.5 billion and growing..."
Watch for a continuing round of substantial salary increases among senior bureaucrats in the next few months. Additionally, government is preparing large severance agreements for top paid employees and Order-in-Council appointments. Regular government programs may be subject to restraints but that policy does not affect the executive suites.

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LABELS: MIKE DE JONG

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De Jong announced Wednesday that this year's deficit has just shot up another $328 million, and now stands at nearly $1.5 billion.

Despite that, de Jong and Premier Christy Clark all but guaranteed the Liberals will balance the books early in the new year.

So just how will the Liberals go from a $1.5-billion deficit to a $200-million surplus in just over two months?
"We're not in a position to rule anything in or out," de Jong replied, adding spending cuts and tax increases are all being considered to eliminate the red ink.

Ads should be first items on B.C. Liberal government's chopping block
By Michael Smyth, The Province November 29, 2012

The red ink is rising so high and so fast at the B.C. legislature that I wonder if it's already completely swamped the brains of the people in charge.

How else to explain the government's insistence on running a campaign of saturation feel-good advertising — at the same time they plead poverty and warn about looming spending cuts and tax hikes?

Don't they realize these TV commercials — self-praising the government for doing such a great job on the economy — are driving people crazy?

I pointed that out to Finance Minister Mike de Jong on Wednesday, and got a dismissive response in return.

"Yeah, I've heard some of those observations," he said, before turning away.

Pressed on the point, de Jong conceded the $15-million ad blitz is unpopular with many, especially since the ads seemed designed to help the Liberals before the May election.

"I've heard them described as partisan," he said. "I understand the controversy."

But he also said the ads are "appropriate" because they're "communicating with British Columbians about the state of their province."

So the multimillion-dollar ad buy will continue — at the same time the deficit is ballooning and the government considers tough measures to deal with it.

De Jong announced Wednesday that this year's deficit has just shot up another $328 million, and now stands at nearly $1.5 billion.

Despite that, de Jong and Premier Christy Clark all but guaranteed the Liberals will balance the books early in the new year.

In fact, de Jong said his Feb. 19 budget will likely boast a surplus of around $200 million, because the Liberals want a big enough cushion to convince everyone the books are truly balanced going into the May election.

So just how will the Liberals go from a $1.5-billion deficit to a $200-million surplus in just over two months?

"We're not in a position to rule anything in or out," de Jong replied, adding spending cuts and tax increases are all being considered to eliminate the red ink.

And as for breaking the piggy bank to suck up to voters?

"There is virtually no room for any kind of big-time, pre-election spending extravaganza," he said.

But there is room to run brazenly partisan ads on your TV set every night. If the government was serious about getting its deficit under control, the ad campaign would be the first thing on the chopping block.

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Why the red ink? Weellll......

Sunday, December 2, 2012
A government of universal deceit

Theoretically, politicians are stewards of the nation's resources and regulators of industries that exploit public assets. Yet those chamberlains receive contributions worth millions of dollars every year from the people they are supposed to regulate. Clearly, this is a conflict that occurs only because the beneficiaries are also the rule makers.

Gas producers like EnCana Corp and Canadian Natural Resources (including large shareholder Al Markin) have given BC Liberals close to a million dollars in recent years, according to Elections BC. I searched on the FRPC site for corporate contributors with the word energy in their names. The report showed an amount going to BC Liberals that was 74 times the amount given the opposition NDP. Those same companies gave nothing to the BC Conservative Party and the Green Party of BC.

Are these corporate citizens simply doing a civic duty, supporting democratic institutions? Of course not. They are purchasing influence over people who regulate their economic prospects. Government ministers, who should be acting as trustees of the public interest, choose to be agents and facilitators for businesses with deep pockets and generous inclinations.

We've been hearing for months from BC Liberals that revenue from natural gas production is sharply reduced in the current fiscal year. No doubt the public share is reduced but we should be asking why.

I suggest there was a political decision to relieve gas companies from payments they would otherwise have been obliged to make.

In the current fiscal year, sharply lower government revenues do not result from lower gas prices earned by the industry. Here is a chart of natural gas prices in the first half of the current fiscal year.

see chart here:
http://northerninsights.blogspot.ca/

This is not the first time that a business friendly government in BC has consciously reduced the public share of revenues earned from public resources. The following is a situation that I wrote about in a personal chronicle, Recalling BC Pioneers:

"Ian Mahood was angered by what he believed were under the table subsidies to large forest companies, achieved by 'short scaling' agreed to at the highest political levels. Scaling measured the quantity of log production, which was used to assess stumpage owing to government as the public share of the forest resource.

"American producers were already complaining that BC stumpage charges were too low and therefore an improper subsidy. They wanted punitive tariffs applied. However, the BC companies were complaining that stumpage was too high and depressing their profitability. The BC government dared not reduce stumpage rates because that would add fuel to the American arguments. Instead, an under the table agreement led to keeping the stumpage rates as they were but artificially depressing the 'scale'. That reduced the amount payable to government by BC producers but avoided giving ammunition to Americans because it was hidden.

"However, some contracts between major forest companies and independents called for the actual working loggers to be paid according to the government scale. By artificially depressing the measurement of timber produced, not just the stumpage was reduced; so were the payments to contractors for log production. In effect the small logging operators subsidized profits of the big guys, the forest license holders.

"Ian Mahood's company believed they were out large sums of money but Ian said terrific pressure was put on the loggers to keep quiet. Of course, the big companies and the government had significant leverage they could apply."

It seems to me the same strategy is at play today in the energy sectors. Government intends to reward corporate participants and it is doing so through the back doors. With an election only 23 weeks away, Christy Clark and Mike de Jong dare not admit their real intent.

http://northerninsights.blogspot.ca/

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^^It seems to me the same strategy is at play today in the energy sectors. Government intends to reward corporate participants and it is doing so through the back doors. With an election only 23 weeks away, Christy Clark and Mike de Jong dare not admit their real intent.[/quote] http://northerninsights.blogspot.ca/


They have had this same strategy all along ,looking after their friends and corporate backers.Strating with BC rail.Another good example below.

49. Crown land giveaways and contracts apparently based political donations http://lailayuile.wordpress.com/2009/04 ... st-assets/

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BC Liberals: The Smoke and Mirrors Continue!

Posted on December 3, 2012




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Smoke and Mirrors BC Liberal Style.

How do you hire somebody in the middle of a hiring freeze?

Simple do it the BC Liberal way.

Shift one employee somewhere elsewhere and tell the world you have a vacancy in that shifted position.

The BC Liberals did just that today with the hiring of Ben Chin into Sara the mouth piece’s old position.

Chin is the former aide to Dalton McGuinty. He worked there when McGuinty’s crew was known as the Fiberals. He should fit in well with the Clark team!

That also makes him a dyed in the wool Liberal, yet another piece in the Clark turn to the left.

Hiring Liberals and spending money that is not there.

How does that make you feel if you are a Conservative?
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BC Liberals Dig Us Deeper In Debt!

Posted on November 28, 2012

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Goofy: This Isn’t Fair!

Inept Premier BC Liberal Premier Christy Clark has been warning voters and taxpayers that today’s economic update was going to be full of bad news,

It was. The current year deficit has grown by $328 million.

According to current Finance Minister Mike De Jong is a delay in the closing of the sale of Little Mountain housing project. Dejong said he does not expect that to close until June.

DeJong then followed in Clark’s footsteps and said no matter, we will balance the budget next year as in February.

unbelievable.

Here are a few things glossed over by both Premier Clark and Finance Manager de Jong.

1) Gone is the $40 million or so revenue from the Telus sign deal at BC Place or whatever you want to call.

2) Whether you were for or against the privatization of the Liquor Distribution Branch,getting caught with their hand in the cookie jar cost the Liberals $700 million which the previous Finance Minister had used in last years budget to project a balanced budget this year. (Note: ironic isn't it that they were counting their chickens before they were hatched, and that idea has now been scrubbed? But they are notorious for "counting their chickens before they are hatched" for fudgit - budgeting purposes..... the HST was an even more massive example of that! Nab)

3) The piece de resistance ( although expenditure wise it pales in comparison to the above numbers) the $15 million your proud government just spent telling you how great they are.

Lets be clear about this too: As you are reading this thinking they are wasting your money, it’s beyond that. They are into your credit cards ( we don’t have any money) so it’s a lot worse.

To give this some context for you.Yesterday Toronto Mayor Rob Ford lost his job for using his letterhead to raise $3,100 for needy children while the BC Liberals used their letterhead to not only blow another $15 million to raise votes for themselves, but also sink you are your family $328 million further in debt.

Where is justice when you need it?

http://politicalinsider.ca/

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^^^There are lots of examples of the smoke and mirror show put on by the Liberals and am sure we will be subjected to Liberal slight of hand from now until the election,in their attempts to make themselves look much better that they actually are.Here are a few more examples.




SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2012
Only when their lips move

Trust me friends, my lips aren't moving
Days ago, I posted the article If BC Liberals lied before, can we believe them now? The main point was that our provincial government feels no obligation to speak honestly to the electorate. Almost everything said is shaped and reshaped for political effect. If the facts are inconvenient, they are reworked until more convenient. Unfortunately, indifferent reporters echo government claims without examining credibility.

For example, in the second quarter financial report, according to the Canadian Press,
"De Jong blamed the continuing dropping government revenues on falling coal prices and collecting less property taxes."
Does the Finance Minister's statement hold up to scrutiny? Let's see.

The ministry's second quarter report shows that coal revenues and property taxes, which amount to 1/6 of the total revenue shortfall, are down $46 million from the budget forecast. That is only 16% of the variance and about 2% of total budgeted revenue.

More significantly, expected natural gas revenues are down three times as much, by $142 million. However, it is expedient to not draw attention to sagging gas revenues while Christy Clark is boasting about liquefied natural gas projects worth a claimed $1 trillion. Of course, zero LNG projects are more likely than the five talked about by Clark, which is good news considering the vast quantities of low cost electricity taxpayers are expected to facilitate liquefaction. Producers are also expecting a break on the usual royalties. Together, those factors mean that most economic benefits of the considered LNG plants will flow to multi-national energy companies, not the citizens of B.C.

Ian Reid has an excellent piece about Liberal sleight of hand in budget preparation:
"At budget time the actual deficit – prior to the forecast allowance – was expected to be $768 million. Now, it’s projected to be $1,369, million which means the actual projected deficit has grown by $601 million since Christy Clark’s first real budget.

"That’s over a $100 million more than the BC Liberals told the media yesterday.

"Now, given their usual strategy, the whole budget is probably a pile of malarkey with an overstated deficit that will miraculously shrink just prior to the election to show us what great stewards the BC Libs are."
David Schreck also supplies a point of view that questions Finance Minister de Jong's candor.

http://northerninsights.blogspot.ca/201 ... -move.html

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The Fraser Institute right wing so called think tank can try to make it look like this Liberal government is so wonderful ,but reality paints a different story.This government doesn't know what it is doing.Time to vote the low lives out of Victoria.

BC: Taxpayer-Government Trust Ebbing Away
“You can’t put feathers on a dog and call it a chicken,” TV’s Dr. Phil once opined. Premier Christy Clark and Finance Minister Mike de Jong would do well to remember that advice as they prepare what could be their government’s final budget.

In recent months, we’ve seen several dogs running around with feathers stuck on them while pretending to cluck.

One week, there’s a hiring freeze in the provincial government. The next, three new staffers show up in the premier’s office.

One week, there’s belt-tightening and austerity being preached. The next, the advertising budget is revealed to have swelled to $64 million over the two years since the new premier took over – double what the old boss spent.

One week, no itemized bills can be found for the controversial $6 million Dave Basi-Bob Virk payout. The next, a government lawyer admits to finding them.

One week, government is so close to announcing a $40 million B.C. Place naming deal with Telus that the company has gone out and ordered signage. The next, government cancels the deal.

One week, taxpayers are promised they will get MLA expense receipts posted online. The next, the B.C. Liberals and NDP scrap that plan and post lump sums with no details instead.

On budget day, the deficit was announced at $968 million. At the first quarterly report announcement several months later, it ballooned to $1.14 billion. And three months after that, at the second quarterly report, it’s up to $1.47 billion.

One week, we hear from the Premier that every $10,000 matters when it comes to balancing the budget. The next, we see her government plans to spend $1.5 million for Family Day parties, timed just three months before the election.

One year, we hear from the government about our low tax burden. The next, the former premier’s chief of staff talks candidly about how government is “raising fees, licenses, premiums, penalties, levies, utility rates, tolls and other hidden forms of taxes,” and “deferring tax burdens to future generations through debt, deferral accounts and public-private partnerships.”

One year, we hear how government’s Pacific Carbon Trust will “foster economic growth from new opportunities… [by attracting] offset purchases from private citizens, companies and other governments alike.” Four years later, we see the Trust sells 99.7 per cent of its carbon credits by forcing hospitals, schools and other taxpayer-funded organizations to buy them.

Trust must be the cornerstone of the relationship between a government and its taxpayers. Every year, we hand over our hard-earned money – a bank account worth $42 billion – to our politicians. We expect them to run our affairs professionally and efficiently and to keep us well-informed on their plans.

When that trust erodes, it’s very difficult for government to earn it back. But it can be done, if Clark and de Jong are willing to change their behaviour.

Balance the budget next year with conservative revenue estimates. Scrap the Pacific Carbon Trust. Beg Telus to take the naming rights to B.C. Place Stadium. Release all expense receipts – and the details the Auditor General wants on Basi-Virk. Cancel the Family Day parties, the big ad buys and have a real hiring freeze. Make the Medical Services Premium health care tax fair – or scrap it all together.

B.C. taxpayers are six months away from rendering an electoral verdict on this government’s performance. The chickens – or at least the dogs dressed up like chickens – are about to come home to roost.


By: Jordan Bateman
Posted: December 06, 2012
Topic: British Columbia
http://taxpayer.com/british-columbia/bc ... bbing-away