BC Election 2024

[erinmore3775]

More likely than not, there will be a union of the BC Conservatives and BC United to form a solid “conservative” opposition to the NDP. If that happened and the members could agree on a “common sense platform” then a minority government could be a possibility. OMG, deja vue all over again, the Greens holding the balance of power!

[A Concerned Citizen]

Remember folks …. Every single political party has been in on the nastiness that’s been done to us since 2020 …

The only difference between all of them (cons, libs, new dork pinkos, GRN, etc etc ) is the colour of the jersey they wear …. Rustad was clapping like a seal until the parties decided he would make for a new Faldo flag, horgan did it all to us and then eby came along as the frontman … falcon didn’t even know he had flown the coup …

Never trust a political party again …

[Hurtlander]

I’m voting Conservative in the upcoming BC election for three reasons. First an foremost, the NDP is far too extremist left with all woke activism, they no longer represent average blue collar working class regular folk.. Secondly, Kevin Falcon is an outright hypocrite. The way Falcon is now berating John Rustad and some of the Conservative candidates for being radical far right extremists is absolutely ironic and idiotic. Kevin Falcon dropped his membership in the CPC so he could meet the qualifications to run for leader of the BC Libs, but not only is he a supporter of the CPC at heart, he was a major supporter of Max Bernier who’s the single most far right politician in Canada. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Falcon
“ Falcon stayed involved in politics during this time. He endorsed Maxime Bernier in the 2017 Conservative Leadership Race. Falcon worked with friend and real estate developer Ryan Beedie to raise $130,000 for Bernier in a single night - a record for the campaign at the time.”
Thirdly: Right now my riding is represented by a very good hard working MLA, Peter Milobar, unfortunately because of boundary changes Todd Stone will be running to represent my riding for the upcoming election, I wouldn’t take a whizz in Todd Stone’s ear if his brain was on fire. I live on Yellowhead Highway 5, a notoriously dangerous highway that wasn’t designed for the traffic flow it’s been subjected to over the past 30 years, and it’s only getting worse. When Stone was the Liberal highways minister his solutions to make the highways safer was to not only increase all the speed limits, in some areas from 80 to 100, he also had absolutely every yellow cautionary sign advising motorists to slow to 80 or 70 or 60 on the more dangerous curves on the Yellowhead all the way from Valemount to Kamloops removed, which made the highway even more dangerous for tourists travelling that highway for the first time while towing a travel trailer for driving a motor home, and also for truck drivers driving that highway for the first time.. Barriere mayor Ward Stamer is running for the Conservatives to represent my riding, he’s a retired logging contractor that once owned a fleet of logging trucks, he’s been working tirelessly for major safety improvements to Yellowhead highway 5, unfortunately the NDP isn’t taking his concerns seriously enough.
ETA: Kevin Falcon is now trying to sell himself as a moderate centrist, in reality he’s further right than Rustad. BC united should merge with the BC Conservatives, Falcon should step down and Rustad should lead the party.

[lesliepaul]

National Post article hits the nail on the head with this sack of Eby!

[youtube]https://apple.news/AfQ_RXCAgSLaa3ku2Zs5QGQ[/youtube]

[Babba_not_Gump]

I’m voting Conservative in the upcoming BC election for three reasons. First an foremost, the NDP is far too extremist left with all woke activism, they no longer represent average blue collar working class regular folk.. Secondly, Kevin Falcon is an outright hypocrite. The way Falcon is now berating John Rustad and some of the Conservative candidates for being radical far right extremists is absolutely ironic and idiotic. Kevin Falcon dropped his membership in the CPC so he could meet the qualifications to run for leader of the BC Libs, but not only is he a supporter of the CPC at heart, he was a major supporter of Max Bernier who’s the single most far right politician in Canada. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Falcon
“ Falcon stayed involved in politics during this time. He endorsed Maxime Bernier in the 2017 Conservative Leadership Race. Falcon worked with friend and real estate developer Ryan Beedie to raise $130,000 for Bernier in a single night - a record for the campaign at the time.”
Thirdly: Right now my riding is represented by a very good hard working MLA, Peter Milobar, unfortunately because of boundary changes Todd Stone will be running to represent my riding for the upcoming election, I wouldn’t take a whizz in Todd Stone’s ear if his brain was on fire. I live on Yellowhead Highway 5, a notoriously dangerous highway that wasn’t designed for the traffic flow it’s been subjected to over the past 30 years, and it’s only getting worse. When Stone was the Liberal highways minister his solutions to make the highways safer was to not only increase all the speed limits, in some areas from 80 to 100, he also had absolutely every yellow cautionary sign advising motorists to slow to 80 or 70 or 60 on the more dangerous curves on the Yellowhead all the way from Valemount to Kamloops removed, which made the highway even more dangerous for tourists travelling that highway for the first time while towing a travel trailer for driving a motor home, and also for truck drivers driving that highway for the first time.. Barriere mayor Ward Stamer is running for the Conservatives to represent my riding, he’s a retired logging contractor that once owned a fleet of logging trucks, he’s been working tirelessly for major safety improvements to Yellowhead highway 5, unfortunately the NDP isn’t taking his concerns seriously enough.
ETA: Kevin Falcon is now trying to sell himself as a moderate centrist, in reality he’s further right than Rustad. BC united should merge with the BC Conservatives, Falcon should step down and Rustad should lead the party.

Good summation of the situation.
I didn't realize Falcon was a strong supporter of Maxime Bernier.

I know the boundaries have changed through Kamloops, I'll have to confirm whose riding I'm in.

[A Concerned Citizen]

I’m voting Conservative in the upcoming BC election for three reasons. First an foremost, the NDP is far too extremist left with all woke activism, they no longer represent average blue collar working class regular folk.. Secondly, Kevin Falcon is an outright hypocrite. The way Falcon is now berating John Rustad and some of the Conservative candidates for being radical far right extremists is absolutely ironic and idiotic. Kevin Falcon dropped his membership in the CPC so he could meet the qualifications to run for leader of the BC Libs, but not only is he a supporter of the CPC at heart, he was a major supporter of Max Bernier who’s the single most far right politician in Canada. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kevin_Falcon
“ Falcon stayed involved in politics during this time. He endorsed Maxime Bernier in the 2017 Conservative Leadership Race. Falcon worked with friend and real estate developer Ryan Beedie to raise $130,000 for Bernier in a single night - a record for the campaign at the time.”
Thirdly: Right now my riding is represented by a very good hard working MLA, Peter Milobar, unfortunately because of boundary changes Todd Stone will be running to represent my riding for the upcoming election, I wouldn’t take a whizz in Todd Stone’s ear if his brain was on fire. I live on Yellowhead Highway 5, a notoriously dangerous highway that wasn’t designed for the traffic flow it’s been subjected to over the past 30 years, and it’s only getting worse. When Stone was the Liberal highways minister his solutions to make the highways safer was to not only increase all the speed limits, in some areas from 80 to 100, he also had absolutely every yellow cautionary sign advising motorists to slow to 80 or 70 or 60 on the more dangerous curves on the Yellowhead all the way from Valemount to Kamloops removed, which made the highway even more dangerous for tourists travelling that highway for the first time while towing a travel trailer for driving a motor home, and also for truck drivers driving that highway for the first time.. Barriere mayor Ward Stamer is running for the Conservatives to represent my riding, he’s a retired logging contractor that once owned a fleet of logging trucks, he’s been working tirelessly for major safety improvements to Yellowhead highway 5, unfortunately the NDP isn’t taking his concerns seriously enough.
ETA: Kevin Falcon is now trying to sell himself as a moderate centrist, in reality he’s further right than Rustad. BC united should merge with the BC Conservatives, Falcon should step down and Rustad should lead the party.

The absolute last place anyone should be getting information to support election decisions is Wikipedia. It has been corrupted and has been and continues to be corrupted by big pharma … Falcon is a flake and rustad is only a false flag if you do your homework … of course eby can’t be trusted because he’s a slimy lawyer waging lawfare against citizens with our money …. Please dig deeper to find the truth …. The CPC is now connected to the BCCP an even though they started out saying there was no connection … they lied …

[Hurtlander]

Kevin Falcon never would have run for the leadership of the BC Liberals if he had thought the BC Conservatives were going to be performing so well in the polls. The number one reason Falcon wanted to change the name of the former BC Liberals is because he, and a good number of former BC liberal MLA’s are actually federal Conservatives, which is fine. But now the BCUP are trying to pass themselves off as Liberals by smack talking the BC Conservatives. The BCUP should do the right thing and merge with the BC Conservatives, and the very small number of BCUP that actually are true Liberals, should run in the upcoming BC election as Liberals.

[Babba_not_Gump]

NDP spending is out of control. In many ways what's happening in BC is a mirror of federal spending.

The government’s net debt (total debt minus financial assets) is projected to be $92.6 billion in 2024-25. In 2024-25, debt interest costs will reach a projected $723 per British Columbian.
Can you afford that?

And then there's government hiring.
For April of this year, there was an increase in private sector employees (1.3 per cent) but an even bigger gain in public sector employment (2.5 per cent).

Though that is only one month, 2023 was worse with the number of employees in B.C.’s burgeoning public sector increasing by an eye-popping 4.6 per cent. Kinda reminds of of the federal government and its employee hiring.

Left wing socialists forget (did they ever know) that private sector jobs fund public sector jobs. The economy cannot survive on public sector jobs. 

Eby's knowledge of economics is on par with Trudeau's.

If the NDP win another election, BC is done.
Drugs, crime, and homelessness will continue to proliferate uncontrolled.
The natives will control Crown land.
The forest industry will be packed up and gone.
Politicians and civil servants will continue to pull in healthy pay cheques and look forward to cushy pensions.
And you my friend, if you're lucky you will own a heavily taxed home or be living in subsidized rental housing.

Kevin Falcon needs to put is ego aside.

[seewood]

NDP spending is out of control. In many ways what's happening in BC is a mirror of federal spending.

In a nutshell, Perfect.

The continued deficit spending will kill BC and then Canada.

[Catsumi]

NDP spending is out of control. In many ways what's happening in BC is a mirror of federal spending.

In a nutshell, Perfect.

The continued deficit spending will kill BC and then Canada.

True. How can anyone in their right mind vote FOR their own destruction?

Totally baffled by this

[seewood]

True. How can anyone in their right mind vote FOR their own destruction?

many, like a couple of my step kids, can't do math and apparently live in the day, no concern for the future.

[Catsumi]

True. How can anyone in their right mind vote FOR their own destruction?

many, like a couple of my step kids, can't do math and apparently live in the day, no concern for the future.

My deepest sympathies

Join me in starting not to give a damn. They want it, they can have it.

My deep concern is for their peers, work hard daily, thinking straight, planning carefully and saving for the future, will be saddled with those thoughtless albatrosses around their throats. I only hope they can cut the parasites loose

[seewood]

My deepest sympathies

Thanks, but the baffling thing is one is a Bsc nursing, husband is a teacher and the other is a site supervisor/planner for Vancouver city in infrastructure. They have an education...
However, as I mentioned, it's about choices, they like the city and apparently are prepared to spend a good portion of their income for rent, instead of moving to a lower cost jurisdiction where income would be the same, and a savings account could be established for a house or retirement.
Choices....

[Catsumi]

My deepest sympathies

Thanks, but the baffling thing is one is a Bsc nursing, husband is a teacher and the other is a site supervisor/planner for Vancouver city in infrastructure. They have an education...
However, as I mentioned, it's about choices, they like the city and apparently are prepared to spend a good portion of their income for rent, instead of moving to a lower cost jurisdiction where income would be the same, and a savings account could be established for a house or retirement.
Choices....

We’re on the same page almost to the letter

My niece was RN, now a Nurse Practitioner, hubby a school principal. After 2 years in Vcr sold their condo, moved to Island, purchased a beautiful home and no regrets at leaving bright lights and huge expenses living in the big city behind.

Now can afford to have kids. Wow.

But they have to pay for the JT years of overspending and unwillingly support those who choose not to work.

Skills are transportable and wish they’d moved a bit further, south of 49.

[fluffy]

I hate to vote AGAINST a Party, rather than FOR a Party, but right now that seems to be my only option.

In a way, that's the choice being fed to us by parties who focus on criticizing the current government rather than saying what they can do for us.

I'm challenged to come up with any particular BC NDP policy, or collection thereof, that would cause me to not vote for them, just as I can't point to any policy or policies put forward by the hopefuls that would cause to vote for them.

"Axe the Tax" carries with it an underlying willingness to push environmental issues to the side in favor of economic growth, which I see as a shortsighted and irresponsible position. Climate change is here with a vengeance, as it's just going to keep getting worse. Both the BC Cons and BC United have environmental policies ranging from lame to non-existent, and that alone puts them off the list for me.