Thoughts on BC Politics and More

As is appropriate, election campaigns are about differences and divisions. Wedging your opponents against the voting cohorts they are seeking, pointing out their flaws and inadequacies, and dragging them into policy fights that are accretive to you politically with the groups of voters you aspire mobilize. That is politics; that is campaigning. Wading past the torqued divisions, however, lay a host of policy issues around which there can be a consensus. And, in this campaign, in this moment of a need for an economic realignment to counter the sabotage of President Trump, a handful of issues have emerged with none as clear as the often-heard comment that “we need to break down our internal barriers to trade" ... CLICK HERE for the full story

BC Conservative Leader John Rustad says the province ought to re-open independent international trade offices in Asia, including in China, to counter tariff threats from US president-elect Donald Trump. “I would re-open all the trade offices in Asia,” said Rustad Tuesday. “All countries trade with China, Europe trades with China, the US trades with China “Now obviously we have to be careful; we have to protect our interests,” said Rustad, whose comments preceded a report Thursday from the Globe and Mail stating Beijing is willing to deepen economic ties amid the frostier US - Canada relations ... CLICK HERE for the full story