NDP Have BIG plans in BC again!!!

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LadyC

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Why won't you answer the question, pea? It's all well and good to complain about how the party in power is doing things, but how will another party do it differently?
 

Reverend Blair

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Apr 3, 2004
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RE: NDP Have BIG plans in

Everyone matters. Ordinary people deserve to be treated with fairness and respect. Carole James and the new
NDP team have 7 practical, common sense commitments to make life better for British Columbians of all
ages, from all walks of life and in every region. It’s time to end one-sided government that benefits only a few.
•Open 1,000 long-term care beds this year and 5,000 more over four years
•Reduce wait lists and clean up dirty, over-crowded hospitals
•Freeze post-secondary tuition fees, double apprenticeships and begin
to reduce K-12 class size
•Stop privatization to ensure low Hydro and ICBC rates and scrap the
$6 training wage
•Balance the budget and ensure people in all regions share the benefits
of a strong, competitive economy
•Restore support for the most vulnerable – seniors and children,
the disabled and the poor
•Re-establish the Ministry of the Environment and enforce clean air
and water standards

Looks like she plans to open a bunch of beds, C.
 

LadyC

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Looks like she plans to open a bunch of beds, C.
I don't think I even need to post a reply, as this is just too obvious.

How will she pay for all of that?

Oh, right... tax the nasty corporations and the rich people.


She might just as well have promised each kid a pony.
 

Reverend Blair

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RE: NDP Have BIG plans in

I warned you about trying to imply I was a communist, Spin. Your response was a reference to Castro. Don't try to make this thread about me.
 

LadyC

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Pea...
Repeatedly posting SPIN doesn't detract from the fact you haven't offered any ideas on how the NDP will make things better.

Take the list the Rev provided and tell us how any of it will be funded.
 

insignificant

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Apr 13, 2005
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OK, well I will post this from the BC Liberals site - hopefully it doesn't get deleted

Once again the NDP is issuing misleading statements about long-term care and seniors’ beds.

FACT: Between 1993 and 1999, the NDP actually reduced the number of care beds by 18% (source: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives).

FACT: Seniors spend less time waiting for a residential care bed under the BC Liberal government.

Wait for a residential care bed under the NDP (2000) = 360 days (Source: Vancouver Sun, 25 Feb 2000)

Wait for a residential care bed today (Vancouver Island) = 66 days. (Source: Average wait time for residential care services, Vancouver Island Health Authority)

FACT: Since 2001, the BC Liberal government has built more than 4,000 new, replacement or upgraded residential care and assisted living units for seniors.

FACT: By the end of 2006, there will be a net increase of more than 2,700 new beds for seniors.

FACT: By 2008, we will have achieved our goal of adding 5,000 new beds for seniors across the spectrum of assisted living, residential care and independent housing.

FACT: 1,700 new seniors’ bed units being built right now.

FACT: Under the NDP, wait times for a residential care bed was almost a year – 360 days. Today average wait times for residential care are now a fraction of that: ranging from 30 to 90 days. Our plan is working.

FACT: A 2002 inventory of residential care found that HALF of the existing residential care beds were either unsalvageable and required outright replacement or needed upgrading in order to be used for complex care. Many beds failed to meet modern building and fire codes; resident rooms were overcrowded; hallways and washrooms were too narrow for wheelchairs. Since 2001, we have been renovating, replacing or upgrading thousands of these units.
 

Reverend Blair

Council Member
Apr 3, 2004
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3110 Boundary Road, Burnaby, BC V5M 4A2
604.430.8600 toll-free 1.888.868.3637
www.bc.ndp.ca
Backgrounder
Strengthen public health care to reduce waitlists for key services, end
privatization, and respond better to patient needs
The Liberal government is putting patient care at risk by shutting down hospitals, closing emergency
rooms and cutting long-term care for seniors. And by opening up more of health care to privatized
services, Gordon Campbell is moving BC closer to a two-tiered system where those who can afford it
are able to buy their way to the front of the line.
Carole James will move British Columbia’s health care system forward, developing and delivering
innovation in quality public health care. Her solutions lie in prevention rather than privatization. In
strengthening hospitals, not closing them. And in listening to community needs, not making arbitrary
decisions behind closed doors.
The New Democrat Plan
Reduce waitl i sts and strengthen hospital services
Expand long-term care services, starting by opening 1,000 units in the first year and a total of
6,000 by 2009, to reduce waitlists and make life better for seniors
Reduce waitlists and privatization of surgical procedures by:
• investing $75 million in a waitlist reduction strategy
• creating new, public specialized surgical and diagnostic centres
End emergency room backlogs by:
• funding 200 acute care beds
• hiring more nurses
• expanding the role of nurse practitioners to BC hospitals
A greater focus on community health care, deci sion-making and prevent ion
• Stop closing hospitals and emergency services, and require health boards to consult with
communities on any significant changes to services
• Improve public accountability through local elections for some health authority board
positions
• Improve access to front line health care by investing in community-based prevention and
primary care – adding 12 new Family Health Care Centres
• Increase British Columbians’ access to family doctors by making it easier for highly skilled
foreign trained doctors to set up practice in BC
Improving services for BC’ s most vulnerable people
• Increase funding for home care and home support services to help seniors and others with
chronic illness live independently and to take pressure off emergency rooms and acute care
beds
• Invest in community based mental-health and addiction services, especially for people living
on our streets.

3110 Boundary Road, Burnaby, BC V5M 4A2
604.430.8600 toll-free 1.888.868.3637
www.bc.ndp.ca
Backgrounder
Work with business, labour and communities for a strong economy for everyone
Creating a more diverse and value-added economy requires a fair, competitive tax and regulatory
environment, no question. But so much more is needed: a skilled workforce, reliable public services such
as BC Hydro and medicare, a commitment to research and to commercialization of new ideas and
products, solid transportation and communication infrastructure, and – most importantly – a partnership
between the province and communities to develop economic strategies that work to provide stability for
businesses, employees, communities and families
The New Democrat Plan
• During periods of high commodity prices, return a significant portion of the provincial budget
surplus to rural and resource communities for investment in economic sustainability and
diversification
• Help forest communities plan for the economic impact of the pine beetle epidemic with reinvestment
of increased timber royalties from expanded local harvest
• Restrict exports of raw logs from public lands and ensure that forest communities gain jobs from
regional timber harvest
• Balance the budget
• Resolve land claims and strengthen meaningful consultation with First Nations
• Scrap the $6 an hour training wage, prevent the exploitation of children in the workplace, and
ensure fair employment standards and strengthened enforcement
• Ensure healthy and safe working conditions
• Ensure a strategic and competitive tax and regulatory environment that stimulates and supports
innovation, job creation and diversification:
• strategic tax reductions for innovation and job growth, e.g. film production tax credits
• no corporate capital tax for non-financial institutions
• no new taxes on small businesses
• reduce regulatory costs while maintaining high standards
• work with the federal government to extend EI to self-employed people
• Establish a Premier's Economic Advisory Council
• Utilize the strength of BC Hydro to establish British Columbia as a major world leader in the
development of clean, green power
• Market BC agriculture with a creative and energetic Buy BC program and ensure the
Agricultural Land Reserve is protected to strengthen opportunities for sustainable agriculture
• Improve freight and goods transportation on key trade corridors
• Ensure that the 2010 Olympic Games are socially, economically and environmentally
responsible, and bring benefits to all regions of the province.
This vision of an increasingly prosperous, stable and sustainable economy whose benefits are shared equally
throughout our province will not be achieved at exclusive meetings in Victoria between Gordon Campbell
and Liberal Party insiders. All regions, all British Columbians, deserve to be partners in that effort.
 

Andygal

Electoral Member
May 13, 2005
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RE: NDP Have BIG plans in

The Liberals have destroyed the education system. Their policies have resulted in reduced funding for special needs children, large class sizes, and courses being cut. I've seen these things, I am about to graduate from high school, I KNOW what the BC Liberals have done to this province, and I don't like it.

However, I voted Green, because even my dad says the NDP were horribly irresponsible at fiscal management.