Thoughts on BC Politics and More

  There was a time when young people like me went to school to learn how to learn. I remember in 1966 when my dad was my teacher. I handed in an arithmetic test. All the answers were correct, but I did not show him how I came up with the answers, and so my dad gave me a zero.   What does this have to do with anything, you may ask?   Being able to determine the truth is significantly more important than someone telling you what to believe. How you determine the truth is even more important than the truth itself.   55 years later, the majority of people have not been taught how to think for themselves.   I say that with certainty because people like Justin Trudeau have become Prime Minister with absolutely no merit whatsoever. How could voters choose him as the answer without seeing the work he had never done??   You can blame Harper all you want and suggest that he is the reason we have a Federal Liberal party destroying our country right now, but that idea defies logic.

  According to the BC Wrongful Death Law Reform Society the fight for a fair wrongful death law has recently generated considerable media attention in British Columbia, with news outlets across the province reporting on the campaign.   I have to admit I was not aware of this campaign, until I saw it on a Global News story out of Vancouver early last week.   According to the society, BC’s current  Family Compensation Act  (FCA)  only takes into account the direct financial losses resulting from death, while others who may not represent an immediate financial loss ‘are a class of people whose lives are not fully valued or respected when they are killed in BC’.   In other words, a great many lives are worthless in the eyes of B.C. law, a point which was also made several times in the news story I saw. And even though the provincial government has been made aware of the issue over many years, BC’s wrongful death laws, unlike every other province, have not had any meaningful changes