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When NDP took power they kept a right-wing, BC Lib-appointed top bureaucrat in the Energy Ministry, conspiracy theory fan Dave Nikolesjin. Recently they replaced him with more far-right Fazil Mihlar of the Fraser Institute. #BCElection2020
When NDP took power they kept a right-wing, BC Lib-appointed top bureaucrat in the Energy Ministry, conspiracy theory fan Dave Nikolesjin. Recently they replaced him with more far-right Fazil Mihlar of the Fraser Institute. #BCElection2020
..Next up, & related: NDP give us 79% increase in fossil fuel subsidies over BC Lib levels, a significant rise in fracking (incl right near #SiteC & other dams), & signing off on a militarized raid on #Wetsuweten to protect #CoastalGasLink in a climate crisis. #bcelxn2020 #bcpoli
.."Natural gas" is fracked methane, the potent GHG. Also on NDP& #39;s gas file, the #LNGCanada project, an uneconomic house of cards in which we forego royalties but are left paying for the damage & transmission lines etc. "LNG is a Losing Bet": https://thetyee.ca/News/2020/10/22/BC-LNG-Losing-Bet/">https://thetyee.ca/News/2020... #bcelxn2020
Then we have #SiteC, also uneconomic, whose $$$$$ electricity will actually slow electrification of the economy as hydro rates soar, pushing us back to the gas that it greenwashes, and whose long-known yet denied geotech safety issues are ballooning its cost... #BCElexn2020
Now to housing. In three years, no NDP action on the Little Mountain eviction scandal. Why didn& #39;t govt repo the site after Holborn (Geoff Meggs here w/ Holborn & Trump heirs) paid no taxes in 10 yrs, didn& #39;t pay for the site & built nothing? Too busy building Trump Tower? #bcpoli
Recently, in midst of unprecedented homelessness crisis resulting in part from an unforgivable slough of whole-building evictions in the DTES, NDP finally announces..450 housing spaces. Are you kidding us, @selinarobinson? After all this time, and *billions* on #SiteC, that& #39;s it?
..Also, while NDP govt spent shedloads of money on infrastructure to support offshore extraction corps, including $$$$$ transmission lines to greenwash LNG, we have a province-wide failure on social housing, home care, the opioid crisis, reneging on universal $10/day daycare...
..Then NDP betrayal of teachers, & that& #39;s not the only labour sector betrayed: even sectors the NDP pretends to champion, like forest workers, are betrayed by giveaways to multinational corps who lay off workers & close mills *even while increasing the cut & bullying BC for more*
..And NDP giveaways to forestry corps for what? Few jobs, only 2.8% of BC GDP, but clearcutting the whole province & turning fire-retarding, water & species-protecting old growth into... pellets. They& #39;ve *accelerated* old growth logging over BC Lib levels. https://thenarwhal.ca/bc-pacific-bioenergy-old-growth-logging-wood-pellets/">https://thenarwhal.ca/bc-pacifi...
The NDP& #39;s failure to fix a situation in which pro O&G bureaucrats sit on the Oil & Gas Commission & push fracking & their quakes right next to the fragile dams *that they are also responsible for.* Oh and their fake feint on #TMX then lying back and doing nothing about it..
..NDP& #39;s failure to act on election promise of Species At Risk legislation in midst of multiple extinction risks, which @GeorgeHeyman in debates has the gall to blame on "First Nations and their pace." Are you kidding me? You can& #39;t use FNs as false alibi, George. Stop. #bcelxn2020
..Still on environment, virtually no NDP repair of BC Libs& #39; gutted environmental assessment and monitoring. The latter would certainly supply a source of green jobs, but don& #39;t hold your breath for good ecosystem and forest mgmt with monitoring... The extraction co& #39;s might get mad
Perhaps worst of all, NDP& #39;s cynical sabotage of our best chance at Pro Rep via insufficient leadup time & education & a deliberately complicated ballot Q instead of just legislating PR on a trial basis which was 100% doable. Without PR, no leverage on the NDP& #39;s oil & gas agenda.
BCers don& #39;t understand Pro Rep because unlike most places in the world, we don& #39;t enjoy it at any of 3 levels of gov& #39;t, so people believe fearmongering by NDP corp lobbyist pals like Bill Tieleman. PR improves democracy & thwarts corp lobbyists; FPTP turns NDP into BC Lib clone.
Let& #39;s just not pretend the NDP are progressives. They& #39;re actually courting corporate capture in nearly every ministry, and they talk UNDRIP out of one side of their mouth & send in semi-automatic armed mounties out of the other. This isn& #39;t stewardship in the public interest.
Even if you& #39;re not ecosocialist, as I am, you still can& #39;t really argue that this NDP bunch are environmental stewards, great friends to labour, or remotely interested in addressing the twin & intertwined crises of inequality and climate change.
They don& #39;t deserve a majority.
They don& #39;t deserve a majority.
PS I haven& #39;t even got into the question of the NDP& #39;s way over-praised #Covid19 response, the recent revelations about their year and a half long coverup of disastrous news on #SiteC, Horgan& #39;s I don& #39;t see colour, Cullen& #39;s and Heyman& #39;s FN bozo eruptions...
.. Addendum: Here& #39;s @VoteCompass& #39; assessment of where the 3 main BC parties sit on the political spectrum. Vote tribally if you wish, but let& #39;s be honest about what we& #39;re really voting for. #BCelxn2020
