Well that is going to be bad for everyone. Looks like we’re headed back to science denial, tax credits for the rich, program cancellations for the poor, a weak fed that ignores the marginalized, bitcoin for some reason, deregulation, attacks on democracy, and just a general attitude of government by bumper sticker skeleton middle finger.
I remember when PP was in government, they weren’t good days, but I guess Trudeau has been in for so long that the list of true and imagined grievances is going to sink him and the rest of us with him.
Don’t forget increased intentionally fucking over BC.
• Harper and PPs complete capitulation on the softwood lumber agreement to the US, multiple times decimated rural BC.
• They moved harbour control for the 2nd busiest port on the west coast of the Americas, out of Vancouver and have them remotely operating out of Comox.
• They illegally forced the TMX expansion pipeline through, and overrode concerns of the city of Hope that the new line runs over their watershed and they ignored native issues with the pipeline. Note that it doesn’t run over Nestles well. They moved the line for fucking Nestle, not a city of people though.
• They shut down the coast guard facility for the Vancouver harbor and forced them to operate out of Richmond. So in the recent issue of a boat running into a seaplane, where the coast guard took under 10 minutes to respond, if Trudeau had not repurchased and opened the facility, their response time would have been in the range of 40 minutes to an hour.
Not to mention a return to “balancing” the budget by selling off assets to developer friends and scandals like taking the G8 security budget and using it for graft and bribery in your own ridings.
BC doesn’t exist, as far as the Cons are concerned. Western Canada is Alberta (and sometimes Saskatchewan), and Eastern Canada is Ontario.
No, Saskatchewan also doesn’t exist. We get very little from the feds, for two reasons:
- We never vote Liberal, so they do little to earn our vote.
- We always seem to vote Conservative, so they do little to earn our vote.
When good things happen it’s because of a unicorn like Ralph Goodale. The NDP could have a fighting chance for a few seats here, but they need to actually campaign and realise that they’re #2 in nearly every riding in the province.
Perhaps the NDP shouldn’t have hitched their horse to the Liberal bandwagon. The fact that they’re showing so poorly is just as mind boggling as the Liberals losing this seat.
The orange steering the reds hand over fist has given us things you will never realize if you don’t actually look at things ever.
Now would be a great time for the federal NDP to have a leadership race. A year until next election. Singh is past his prime. Get some free press.
