Given their own track record, hardly a peep can be heard from the NDP

Yesterday, BC Conservative Party Leader John Cummins asked, “Why is it so difficult for the BC Liberals to be truthful about the province’s finances?”

He asked that after Finance Minister Mike de Jong released BC’s first quarterly report for the budget year 2012/13.

Is this the government plan --- 'we'll just write it off'

A media report from the BC Conservative Party also stated that:

Cummins noted that the BC Liberals have a long history of deception and deceit regarding British Columbia’s finances.

This history of deception however goes back a lot longer than the BC Liberals time in office, and as one person I know said; “sadly...most people just do not want to know.”

This is nothing new --- and nothing recent for that matter. 

Regrettably I found that to be true when I ran for the BC Reform Party in the 1996 provincial election ... and sadly nothing seems to have changed since then.

Too many people only want to hear the sky is 'blue', even if there's storm clouds roaring in, and howling winds right behind.

I’m going to toss some numbers out ( your eyes will now glaze over) on BC’s provincial debt.  These are numbers that I would guess no more than five or ten percent of the population are even aware of:

• when the NDP took power in '91 the provincial debt was $17.26 Billion
• when the BC Liberals took power in 2001 the provincial debt had hit $24.9 Billion
• by 2011 the Liberals had taken the debt to $45 Billion
• and for 2014/15 the Ministry of Finance has projected that provincial debt will exceed $66 BILLION

The total provincial debt just keeps getting higher and higher, but given their own track record, hardly a peep can be heard from the NDP.

On top of that, many in the media don't seem to understand ... or care

And the voices of small 'c' conservatives can't be heard because they are accused of misrepresenting the debt … and of fear mongering.

The only time governments get to write off debt is when they go bankrupt.  Is that the legacy we want to leave for future generations of British Columbians ... our children and grand-children?

The sad thing is unless people pull their heads out of the sand, it's only going to get worse.  What do you think?  Would you agree?

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