The rich and connected appear to run British Columbia

[Angstrom]

I can remember 15 years ago hearing feminism was going to solve all these masculine world problems......

 

[taxslave]

Are you sure ? Do you remember Davy and Glen ?

Most of us do. That is why the Liberals will win.

The only way to manage the food chain is to eliminate, or at least mitigate, those at the top: cull the human population.

I'm good with that. When is your funeral?

Dan Levin writes that Christy Clark and her B.C. Libs have turned British Columbia into a haven for capital to run wild without any social responsibility or public benefit:

Like many places, British Columbia set up a system of tax incentives to lure businesses to the far western Canadian province in the hopes of creating jobs and transforming Vancouver into a global financial center.

But if the program has been good for business, it’s been less beneficial for British Columbia.

Participating companies have created few jobs, according to government figures, while more than 140 million Canadian dollars ($106 million) have been doled out in tax refunds since 2008, when the initiative was expanded.

The incentives operate under a cloak of secrecy that is unusual for similar efforts in Canada and the United States, critics say. The province will not name the companies that get the breaks. The only information available about them is on the website of a nonprofit that promotes the program.

“This is essentially a temporary foreign-worker program for the rich, with secret government subsidies for multinational corporations,” said Dermod Travis, the executive director of IntegrityBC, a nonpartisan political watchdog group based in Victoria, the provincial capital. “The government is selling B.C. as a tax haven for the global elite to park investment here, but not have to contribute.”
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Regardless of what the extreme left is trying to pass off as scandals in BC the fact is the BC Liberals are the ONLY party interested in creating private sector jobs. Real jobs, not mcjobs serving popcorn to rich foreigners or changing diapers on someone else's parents.

 

[Kreskin]

I would like to see Glen Clark return to power so he can start BC's spaceship building industry.

 

[JLM]

I would like to see Glen Clark return to power so he can start BC's spaceship building industry.

He couldn't build a boat that worked!

Are you sure ? Do you remember Davy and Glen ?

Davy was OK. He put a stop to using all the good farm land for building lots, although he did take it a little too far. Even I.C.B.C. was good for the first couple of years, as it did get the auto insurance out of the clutches of crooks like Allstate.

 

[Twin_Moose]

Surrey is getting ready to ditch the RCMP. Will there be a domino effect?

 

[JLM]

Surrey is getting ready to ditch the RCMP. Will there be a domino effect?

Is the R.C.M.P. per se the problem?

 

[Twin_Moose]

Could be, easy solution there demand change of whole divisions, but to start from scratch will be a lot worse before getting better. And the cost will be the hot issue in the near future reducing their effectiveness.

 

[JLM]

Could be, easy solution there demand change of whole divisions, but to start from scratch will be a lot worse before getting better. And the cost will be the hot issue in the near future reducing their effectiveness.

Just a layman's opinion- Surrey is a huge area with huge problems. Split it into two constabularies, keep half the R.C.M.P. the best ones and relocate the rest across the province/country. Start a second constabulary from scratch, not necessarily R.C.M.P.

 

[Twin_Moose]

I could see that as a viable option just like rural Sask. Yorkton has both in the city

 

[Curious Cdn]

I could see that as a viable option just like rural Sask. Yorkton has both in the city

When my dad was a lad early in the twentieth century, Saskatchewan had a Provincial Police Force like Ontario, Quebec and Newfoundland do.

 

[JLM]

I wonder if the R.C.M.P. has gotten too big.

 

[MHz]

Any community over 100,000 people should have their own residents serve as the Police, leave the rural parts to the RCMP. They all use the same databases anyway.

 

[justlooking]

Is the R.C.M.P. per se the problem?

Not Halal enough.
Also too difficult to get the cream skimmed off the top of the police action budgets.

 

[Curious Cdn]

Not Halal enough.
Also too difficult to get the cream skimmed off the top of the police action budgets.

Pretty hard to make pork Halal.



Just kidding.

Love the Mounties.

 

[Cliffy]

Pretty hard to make pork Halal.



Just kidding.

Love the Mounties.

Gives a whole new meaning Gives a whole new meaning to mounted police...

 

[MHz]

Parking ticket dispute??