Note to the BC Liberals … “Take a stand ---and lead”

Earlier today Liberal MLA John Rustad (Nechako Lakes) posted a link to a news story, on his Facebook page.  The opinion piece, “Fact finder might help resolve education crisis”, was written by Jon Ferry and is in today’s Province newspaper.

The story is a good read, and to me it offers a clear confirmation that our elected government is failing to do what we elect them to do … govern.  But as Jon Ferry points out in his piece, there may be a lack of willingness to do what must be done.

The BC Liberals have gone steadily downhill in public opinion, and that began just a few short months after they elected Christy Clark as their leader.  They have lost 25% of the people who voted for them in the last election to the BC Conservative party … and a further 10% who have gone over to the NDP. 

One would tend to perhaps agree then with the comment of Jon Ferry when he says:

"The Christy Clark government, however, is now so wounded in the opinion polls it may be unwilling to provoke a political backlash by appearing too draconian."

I am a member of the BC Conservative Party, so one would be correct in thinking I would not readily offer any advise that might help them (not that they would listen), but here goes anyways

You (the BC Liberals) are indeed wounded … and it is because people are NOT seeing leadership from your government.  Is the government prepared to take the leadership role they have been elected to provide us?

Jon Ferry's statement that, "... the government first needs to appoint an independent "fact finder" to come up with common-sense suggestions for resolving the current education crisis . . . and crises to come" is right on the money.

And he has scored a bull’s-eye as well when he says that need to have the same plan in place to resolve any further crises when they come up.   

Issue after issue has come up during the past 2 years where they have danced around problems that have come up (BC Rail, BC Hydro, BC Ferries, Community Living BC, among them).

Take a stand ---and lead.  Don’t hope the problems will go away, because they won’t.  IF the BC Liberal government does not offer, and provide, that leadership, they will indeed be relegated to the history books as others have recently said they will.

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