People need positive leaders, positive solutions to our problems with policies to match

Yesterday, Christy Clark and the BC Liberal Party posted a new video on their YouTube channel.  A video in which she began by saying “It’s been quite a year for British Columbia …”

I couldn’t agree with her more on that!

Last year was both interesting and exciting … it was a year in which BC Liberals and the New Democrats elected new leaders … and one in which the fledgling BC Conservative Party went from 5% in the polls to 23% in the months following the election of John Cummins as leader, the development of dozens of constituency association, and the building of a strong party foundation.

But back to the video, and the words of Christy Clark.  For example these words at the 9 second mark … “We’ve come together to bring the right kind of change to our province”

Sorry Christy but the actions of your government don't match the words being spoken --- and the talk of openness and member participation – well that’s about a year late now.

The platform and ideas she is NOW asking to have contributed ‘by the people’???   They are already part of the BC Conservative Party Policy and Guiding Principles document; one developed and created by the rank and file members of the party during the past year. 

Why do I know this??

It’s because I was a part of the process, and I saw many great common sense ideas and suggestions that came in from members’ right here in the Kamloops, Thompson, Nicola region.

Those ideas were discussed, worked on, and then submitted to the policy committee that oversaw them being careful put together into a proposed policy document for review by all of the members.  THEN … over 150 people came together to fine tune and approve it as a finished document at the party AGM last September in Nanaimo.

That finished document contains the Policies and Guiding Principles of the BC Conservative Party

But let me get back to Christy's video.  In concluding her short minute and a half pep talk to members of the BC Liberal Party she said:

“ … I’m looking forward to our plans to engage party members, and to hearing your ideas … to working with you, and putting them into action … I’m looking forward to working with you in the new year.”

If she had started out that way last spring, after being elected the new leader of the BC Liberal Party, she would not be currently tied in the polls with John Cummins and the BC Conservative Party … and the negative attack ads, a year and a half in advance of the next general election, would not have already begun.

This is timely to wrap up with today ... and it just came in to me as a message from a friend:
“I think people need positive leaders, positive solutions to our problems with policies to match. A leader who can sell a common sense positive vision for BC's future will win the next election.”

In May of 2013, each one of us will get the chance decide, as individuals, who we think and believe can provide the kind of positive leadership and direction we are looking for in British Columbia.

I’m Alan Forseth in Kamloops … with the thoughts of one conservative.