Cost savings measures for BC Ferries … a new political poll … unemployment
… balancing the budget … John Martin nominated for the BC Conservatives … the
garbage wars … Christy Clark trying to change political stripes … negotiations
on the teachers’ contract.
All this and more took center stage this week in BC political news. Here’s a round-up of some of the stories in
case you missed them …
... the remarkable thing about the steady decline of the BC Liberals is
that the party remains stubbornly unable to distinguish a branding problem from
a content problem ... the province's ruling party has been steadily
hemorrhaging center-right votes ... to the long-dormant provincial Tories ...
the response from Premier Christy Clark and her supporters has simply been to
double-down on superficial right-wing marketing gimmicks while remaining
blissfully oblivious to the idea that conservative voters might actually be
motivated by anything more substantial ...
EDITORIAL: Latest poll
confirms the obvious
… we need yet another poll to state the obvious? From the moment former premier Gordon
Campbell signed his political death warrant by foisting the hated HST upon
voters mere weeks after winning an election, the BC Liberals have been bound
for the afterlife now inhabited by the Social Credit, Progressive Conservative
and Progressive Democratic Alliance parties … does not appear anything will
change the party’s fate in time to avoid an unpleasant reckoning when voters go
to the polls …
… it didn’t take long for John Martin to be assigned duties in the BC
Conservative’s shadow cabinet …the party’s candidate in the upcoming
Chilliwack-Hope by-election, was named justice critic … “This Liberal
government has failed British Columbians on the justice file. They have starved
the justice system and now thousands of criminal prosecutions could be thrown
out.”
