BC Conservative Party option.
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- Buddha of the Board
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Re: BC Conservative Party option.
*off-topic/Jo*
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- Walks on Forum Water
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Re: BC Conservative Party option.
Does not say it is only for Okanagan people
Would violate free speech.
But, hey. There is the possibility the Conservatives
Could get more seats than the Liberals.
http://www.threehundredeight.com/p/brit ... umbia.html
Would violate free speech.
But, hey. There is the possibility the Conservatives
Could get more seats than the Liberals.
http://www.threehundredeight.com/p/brit ... umbia.html
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- Buddha of the Board
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Re: BC Conservative Party option.
While digging through the BC Conservative's 28 page Pre-Election Platform (available in .pdf format at http://www.bcconservative.ca/wp-content ... Final1.pdf ) I noted this highlighted on page 12.... true or not true???
Nab
"B.C.’s record as a ‘have-not’ province
Canada’s provinces are designated - for
the purpose of federal equalization
transfers - with ‘have’ and ‘have-not’
status.
Simply, have-not provinces are those
that are incapable of generating
sufficient revenues to pay for federally
mandated programs – such as health
care and social assistance – and so
they receive special payments from
Ottawa called “equalization.”
Generally, British Columbia has been
a ‘have’ province.
Yet, on several occasions over the last
few decades, we’ve fallen into ‘havenot’
status and been the beneficiaries
of Ottawa’s equalization transfers.
In the 1980s, Social Credit governments
led by Bill Bennett and Bill
Vander Zalm received three
equalization payments from Ottawa.
Bennett got the first such payment, for
$139 million, in 1983/84, and a second
for $35 million in 1984/85. Vander
Zalm obtained $360,000 in 1986/87.
The NDP under Glen Clark garnered
a single equalization transfer, of $125
million, in 1999/2000.
Gordon Campbell’s BC Liberals
received five equalization payments –
$158 million in 2001/02; $543 million
in 2002/03; $979 million in 2004/05;
$590 million in 2005/06; and $459
million in 2006/07.
So big were these latter transfers that
B.C. actually had to send back an overpayment
of $330 million in 2003/04.
In sum, B.C. received equalization
payments under Social Credit that
added up to $174 million. Under the
NDP, the total was $125 million.
And under the BC Liberals the total
amount of equalization payments
made to British Columbia was $2.4
billion."
Nab
"B.C.’s record as a ‘have-not’ province
Canada’s provinces are designated - for
the purpose of federal equalization
transfers - with ‘have’ and ‘have-not’
status.
Simply, have-not provinces are those
that are incapable of generating
sufficient revenues to pay for federally
mandated programs – such as health
care and social assistance – and so
they receive special payments from
Ottawa called “equalization.”
Generally, British Columbia has been
a ‘have’ province.
Yet, on several occasions over the last
few decades, we’ve fallen into ‘havenot’
status and been the beneficiaries
of Ottawa’s equalization transfers.
In the 1980s, Social Credit governments
led by Bill Bennett and Bill
Vander Zalm received three
equalization payments from Ottawa.
Bennett got the first such payment, for
$139 million, in 1983/84, and a second
for $35 million in 1984/85. Vander
Zalm obtained $360,000 in 1986/87.
The NDP under Glen Clark garnered
a single equalization transfer, of $125
million, in 1999/2000.
Gordon Campbell’s BC Liberals
received five equalization payments –
$158 million in 2001/02; $543 million
in 2002/03; $979 million in 2004/05;
$590 million in 2005/06; and $459
million in 2006/07.
So big were these latter transfers that
B.C. actually had to send back an overpayment
of $330 million in 2003/04.
In sum, B.C. received equalization
payments under Social Credit that
added up to $174 million. Under the
NDP, the total was $125 million.
And under the BC Liberals the total
amount of equalization payments
made to British Columbia was $2.4
billion."