Now I
have to admit the search term did intrigue me – first of all wondering what
story it was I had written that had caused the blog to pop up in Google’s
search engine … but also wondering who else may have written something on that
as well.
Guess
what, when I checked that search term in Google, there were over 23 million
(23,100,000) results that came up in one quarter (0.25) of a second. Seems like that has been something often
written, and thought about, when it comes to our BC Liberal government.
By
now you are probably wondering about the top stories that came up when I
searched for “bc liberal doublespeak” … so here they are for you to read and
review:
The
BC Liberals are creating yet more uncertainty for BC’s non-profit sector by
continuing to speak out of both sides of their mouths when it comes to gaming
grants, say New Democrats.
“Community groups in Prince George understand
that Rich Coleman has promised them he would be restoring gaming grants to
their previous level of $159 million. But on the same day, community groups in
Kamloops and Kelowna are desperately looking for new ways to raise money
because of the devastating cuts they received this year,” said New Democrat
housing and social development critic Shane Simpson.
Just
months after BC Liberal Premier Christy Clark blamed the federal government for
the collapse of the Prosperity Mine project at Fish Lake, her minister
responsible for mines and energy, Rich Coleman, has an interesting choice of
words to now describe consideration of the project. Rich Coleman has taken political double speak
to new heights …
According
to the B.C. Liberal government's own Heritage Impact Study (August 2008), the
rationale to destroy the oldest cannery south of the Fraser River was based on
a lack of access to it because of the SFPR.
Interesting reasoning: we didn't kill heritage, but only access to it.
The government continues to fabricate its ill-thought-out Gateway Project plans
with typical B.C. Liberal double-speak.
As BC
enters the "silly season" and political machines gear up for the
upcoming provincial election, the Campbell Liberals are busy breaking yet
another election promise by funneling millions of dollars into
government-funded political advertising.
Twenty years after the self-titled
anniversary of George Orwell's prophetic novel "1984", the BC
Liberals have adopted Orwell's "doublespeak" as the official style
guide for government communications.
… the
finance minister told us other ads will point out "some prices are going up too. We're not pretending in those ads that
everything comes down. I think those ads are informative. And I would argue I
think they're balanced." Specifically, Mr. Falcon referenced an ad
that will show how a candy bar is pricier under the harmonized sales tax while
baby diapers are cheaper.
When
Ms. Clark recently announced that she was abandoning her idea of holding a free
vote in the legislature on the HST and was now fully behind a provincial
referendum in June, Mr. Abbott and Mr. Falcon all but suggested she was unfit
to govern. “On these significant issues,
the public wants certainty and clarity, not more double-speak and misdirection,”
said Mr. Abbott. Mr. Falcon accused his
competitor of being guilty of “ready,
fire, aim,” policy making.
But
as a political commentator and communications consultant, I'm appalled at how
amateurish British Columbia looks right now.
I suspect it's a position shared by some BC Liberal MLAs, all but one of
whom declined to endorse Clark in the leadership campaign for increasingly
obvious reasons.
Dear
Christy and my BC Liberal friends … please don’t shoot me; I’m just the message
bearer. Obviously there are more people
than just me (23 million by the looks of it) that have something to say about
“bc liberal doublespeak”.
I’m
Alan Forseth in Kamloops, with the thoughts of one conservative, on this round
ball we call planet earth.
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