Showing posts with label fraser river. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fraser river. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

GOOGLE and a tale of “bc liberal doublespeak”


I was taking a look yesterday, at where some of the people being referred to my Conservative Thoughts blog are coming from.  One thing happened to catch my attention, and that was a referral for Google’s search engine – it was for the search term “bc liberal doublespeak

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.

Sunday, September 25, 2011

John Cummins, "Justice a high priority for BC Conservatives"

September 24, 2011 (Nanaimo)


At the annual general meeting for the BC Conservatives today, John Cummins made two policy announcements; both addressing justice gaps in the province.

"As Conservatives we believe in the law - that it should be applied evenly, fairly and without discrimination," said Mr. Cummins. "Today I am announcing two important changes a new BC Conservative government would make to uphold the law in BC."

British Columbia is one of only a small number of provinces where the police cannot lay charges. This means that when the police arrest a criminal, they recommend charges to the crown prosecutors who then decided if the case merits charges. A consequence of this is that prosecutors, who are overworked, pick and choose the cases with the highest chance of conviction that fit into their heavily booked schedules. 

As a result many criminals go free, or lesser charges are dropped. This is one of the reasons BC has what is described as a catch and release justice system.