If Vancouver and the Island were ran seperately the rest of BC would be in awesome shape and Van/Van Island in even deeper ****.
Yeah half of SK went to go there to build the joint.
Thats it. Rub in the fact that 2/3 of my neighbours are freeloaders. Used to be that rural people all had a good work ethic. 40 years of union domination has taken that away. WHich is one of the 3 main reasons we have few mills anymore.
Yes and No..........Vancouver Island was booming (Port Alberni was to top payroll town in B.C.) until the environmentalists stuck their noses into things. Lumber, pulp and paper were king. Now the boom towns of Gold River, Tahsis and Zeballos are ghost towns. Port Hardy could be next.
One of the other 3 reasons.
As I have posted other places we have managed to kill the goose that laid the golden eggs. Unions with their incessant demands for higher wages, shorter hours and protection of the lazy,
Multiple levels of government with taxing authority hitting up industry for ever higher "donations" to unnecessary projects and monuments to stupidity.
Environmentalists with the help of vote buying governments piling on ever increasing amounts of regulations, fees and permits with demands for mountains of useless and often redundant paperwork have made B.C. uneconomical to operate in.