Thoughts on BC Politics and More

BC’s three opposition parties united this week to demand the auditor general probe a so-called “kickback scheme” involving one of the companies responsible for administering millions of dollars of government grants to clean technology projects. BC United, BC Green and BC Conservative MLAs voted for an independent probe of accounting firm MNP, which the government has hired to administer at least two grant programs, but which is also facing allegations it demanded so-called “success fees” of as high as 20 per cent of the grant amount to help firms win money . . . . CLICK HERE for the full story

The BC Liberal Party "Troll" truck has been showing up at NDP campaign stops in recent days A friend and acquaintance asked me today, " If the BC Liberals are Liberals, then why do the use Federal Conservative 'blue' so prominently on their signs and advertising?   Isn't the Liberal color supposed to be Red? " Let me say, before going further, this individual has not lived in Canada for all that long, and so someone asking the question made perfect sense. I said to them, and I'm paraphrasing now, "BC is kind of a weird place. For a long time we had Liberal party ... the Conservative party ... and then after awhile we had the CCF, which eventually became the NDP. Now the Liberals were Liberal in every way ... the Conservatives were Conservative in every way ... and the CCF was the peoples party made up of socialists, unionists, and what I'll call social democrats. With a Conservative / Liberal coalitio...