smoke, mirrors and smearing
All the writers who are critical of the previous government and those who
voted ndp ought to give their head a shake and learn the facts. They
have double standards stating ndp supporters have short memories and
are union-driven when they forget all the broken promises from the new
error document and who pays for the liberal campaign.
First they assume the ndp get all their money from big government unions
and the liberals are squeaky clean. On the contrary the ndp get 88% of
their funds from individuals, yet the liberals get three quarters of their
funds from big corporations. Secondly some unions support the liberals
the teamsters gave Gordon Campbell a standing ovation, after Maui,
protested the ndp at one of James whistle stops, and had liberal candidate
signs on the back of their trucks. The firefighters in Esquimalt paid for a
big advertisement in the Times Colonist endorsing Tom Woods, yet another
example of a union publicly backing a liberal. So far that is two holes in
Gordon Campbell’s lie that the ndp and unions are one and the same.
The liberals and their supporters claimed that public sector unions like,
the HEU, BC nurses union, and the BCTF were spending millions to put
the NDP back in power. These unions were in fact creating awareness of mere
factual and damaging information regarding the liberal cuts to health and education,
but did not say to vote ndp. The liberal advertisements implied that only the ndp was the
opposed their cuts when, in fact the green and other parties campaigned against the
cuts. Since the more than one party opposed the cuts and the union advertisements
did not tell anyone to vote green nor ndp it is very lame support to the liberal
lie that big unions are the ndp, or that unions were necessarily trying to put
the ndp back in power.
They blame all the horrible 90’s on the NDP as though the BC economy was
last place during all of the NDP years. In fact BC was only last in 98 after the
Asian market meltdown; the NDP can not be blamed for market conditions
abroad. The follow years BC was 3rd or 4th, and the BC economy grew by
3.4% in 2000, the NDP’s last full year in power. They left the liberals two
consecutative balanced budgets. Deliberately turning a surplus into a deficit
to justify putting thousands out of a job and therefore unable to support
local business is not bright economic plan. The critics of Glen Clark forget
that after the 96 election Glen Clark personally used his union skills to
mediate a deal with the now defunct Canadian Airlines and its’ workers
saving 2000 jobs in Richmond; those weren’t government jobs. The political
right wing nuts are also very bias when it comes to capital spending on
infrastructure. For instance the socred government built the first skytrain
for the EXPO 86 and got relected under Vanderzam. No one called the skytrain
wasted tax payers’ money because the ndp were not in power. When the ndp won
re-election and opted to extend the skytrain east with the millennium line the right
wings critics and papers where all over it as a waste of taxpayers’ money and slamming
missed deadlines, and budget over-runs. Budgets are at best educated guesses, and
deadlines are just goals, but none the matter. It did not matter to the critics or the
then liberal opposition that the millennium line meant jobs for people who might
not have otherwise be using their trades to support their families and local business
when jobs where need. It did not matter to the opposition that Glen Clark might
have been a visionary ahead of his time in building the millennium line. Fast forward
to 2003 and the Liberals are spending a billion dollars on RAV line in west Vancouver
all for games that aren’t coming to BC till 2010, but that isn’t a waste of money
anymore than the skytrain built in 86 because you see the ndp aren’t in power.
It is only when the ndp are in power that such large infrastructure projects are a waste
of money.
The BC liberals are their corporate cronies are lying by omission. They are pretending
that one side of inter-provincial migration, and business climate. In fact many
people have moved to BC during the ndp years from other parts of Canada. The
Ontario ministry of Social Services offered welfare recipients one way tickets
to BC because their clients BC was were the jobs are; that happened under the watch
of Mike Harris’s pro business government not under Bob Rae’s ndp government.
Anyone who does realize either seen too much liberal propaganda or does not care to
talk get to know people. Furthermore they are many reasons that businesses
fail. Businesses fail from market saturation, poor customer service skills, and poor management
of inventory or staff moral to the fault of management etc, but it is so much easier
and convenient for business people to blame the ndp instead of themselves. It is also
convenient for the liberals to turn a blind eye to all the BC business started opened
during the 90’s, and all the downtown businesses that closed up since 2001 cause
when you put the two together it shows the economy is fluent; business open and fold
regardless of who’s in power. Needless to people both move to and away from BC yearly,
and the economy goes in cycles.
