‘When our resources are sustainability developed all British Columbians benefit.... we must put our Made in BC stamp on them, and get them to world’ – BC Conservative leader Trevor Bolin

On Sunday (July 7^th), our BC NDP government announced exclusive funding for Vancouver and area residents to receive free tickets to attend concerts put on by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, which I wrote about here on the blog:

“Those living in the Metro-Vancouver, lower mainland region, receiving free tickets to symphony concerts”

On Monday (July 8^th), one of the announcements from BC Government News let us know that:

Approximately 200 students, teachers and parents from around the world gathered at Government House in Victoria to share their unique perspectives on the role youth can play in protecting and restoring life on land for the benefit of future generations

And now today (July 10^th), comes a provincial government announced that:

People will soon have easier, more affordable access to menstrual products with the launch of the United Way Period Promise research project.

Through a $95,000 B.C. government grant, the project will distribute menstrual products to 12 non-profit agencies that serve vulnerable populations throughout the province ...

And of course, we have the never-ending rise-sharing issue that seems to have been one of the highest priorities for the BC Liberals, the NDP, and it’s even something the BC Conservatives have decided is policy they should be concerned about.

Are these things of value and importance?

Certainly, they are, HOWEVER these are the kinds of things governments should be looking at as secondary (at least in my opinion) issues to be dealt with.

What should be the main concern and focus of Premier John Horgan, and his NDP government?

For starters ... the thousands of job losses in the forest industry as mills shutdown, and/or curtail shifts.  In almost ever case, these job losses have been in smaller interior, northern, and rural communities.  Merritt, Chasm, Quesnel, Fort St. John, Houston, Mackenzie, Vavenby, 100 Mile House ... the list goes on and on.

These small communities lose jobs in the forest industry, which leads to spin-off jobs being reduced by companies supplying products to these sawmills (or in many cases they close their doors because of a lack of business) ... people start to move away ... more businesses close ... schools get shut down ... government service are withdrawn.

 

And then the final nail in the coffin for these small communities is that they simply cease to exist, or only a handful of people remain. 

“Our Forestry industry is tanking faster than we can even keep up on through social media. More law suits being filed against new energy resource projects, the Premier himself dead set against Trans Mountain, the fisheries industry trying to be heard from a government who doesn’t listen”, stated BC Conservative leader Trevor Bolin when I asked him about these issues earlier this morning. 

“True job creation in BC needs to come from being on the front line of all of our vast resources, and understanding how the benefit everyone”, he continued. 

For me, I wish to state loudly, and clearly .... I am disgusted at what appears to be the complete and total lack of concern for the drivers that for so many years provided the jobs that drove our economy ... created strong rural communities ... and funded the government with tax resources for the needs of our citizens.

Who gives a crap when we hear about news announcements stating that:
“More than 100 people will get training and work experience in the forest sector, giving them opportunities for job success and improved lives, through $3.3 million in provincial government funding”.

THERE ARE NO NEW JOBS to go to .... jobs are being lost a hundred, two hundred, thee hundred and more at a time.

BC is at a cross-rounds, which the BC NDP have driven us too.

They are deliberately letting the resource industry of British Columbia flounder because of commitments they have made to the federal government on carbon emissions and carbon taxes (just to name two) ... to radical environmental groups which in many cases receive a lot of funding from US entities ... and in some cases due to the partnership they made with the Green Party in BC so as to prop up the minority government.

High-tech industries, all the way, is the goal of this government, which fails to realize WE CAN HAVE BOTH – green high-tech industry, and environmentally sound resource industries – the BEST OF TWO WORLDS.

Again, quoting the Conservatives Trevor Bolin: 

“We should be proud of what BC can offer nationally and globally in all of our resource industries. We can change not only how it’s done in Canada, but how it can be done better worldwide. Let’s work together to advance our forestry markets, our natural gas, oil and propane export markets.”

“When our resources are sustainability developed all British Columbians benefit.... we must put our Made in BC stamp on them, and get them to world”, he concluded.