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<h1 style="text-align: center;">BC liberal government - track record</h1>
<h2>[WHAT]</h2>
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<li>] by Don Sagrott founder@sospep.com - A collection of stories pertaining to the government of BC, formed by the Liberal party, from 2002 - today. the GOOD, the BAD and the UGLY</li>
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<h2>[WHY]</h2>
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<li>] a summary of the current BC Liberal parties governments performance record, links to more details on each event</li>
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<h2>[WHERE]</h2>
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<li><strong>] READ THE FULL ARTICLE</strong></li>
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<h2>[WHEN]</h2>
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<li><strong>] 2016-02-20</strong></li>
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<h2>[-PROs-] aka "the good"</h2>
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<li><strong>+] strong economy</strong></li>
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<li>] real estate, construction, technology, agriculture, tourism .</li>
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<li><strong>] balanced budget ( 2016, 2015, 2014, )&nbsp;</strong></li>
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<li><strong>] booze</strong></li>
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<li>]&nbsp;improvements to liquor laws</li>
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<li><strong>] mild opposition Northern Gateway pipeline&nbsp;</strong></li>
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<li><strong>] holiday</strong></li>
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<li>] A new family day statuatory holiday is introduced. Will fall on the 3rd Monday of February each year, beginning in 2014</li>
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<li><strong>] <a href="/view/article?id=4949" target="_blank">inaction</a></strong></li>
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<li>] in the Greater Vancouver/Fraser Valley red hot real estate market, protects homeowners equity positions.</li>
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<li><strong>] 120 KPH&nbsp;</strong></li>
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<li>]&nbsp;Increasing the speed limit to 120 on the Coquihalla highway</li>
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<li><strong>] free parking&nbsp;</strong></li>
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<li>]&nbsp;Removing parking fees from provincial parks introduced by previous liberal government</li>
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<li><strong>] announcement - NEW St. Pauls hospital(Vancouver)</strong></li>
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<li><strong>] announcement - NEW george massey tunnel replacment - bridge(Vancouver), $3.5B</strong></li>
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<li><strong>] announcement - NEW $100M Venture Capital Fund for Tech sector</strong></li>
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<li><strong>] announcement - ADDITIONAL - $355M for "affordable" housing</strong></li>
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<h2>[-CONs-] aka "the bad"</h2>
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<li><strong>] child labor laws</strong></li>
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<li>]&nbsp;In 2003, the Liberals had a great idea of lowering the legal working age to 12 years old. On May 9, 2013, First Call released an eye-opening&nbsp;<a href="http://rabble.ca/news/2013/05/christy-clarks-excuses-child-labour-bc-defy-logic-and-good-public-policy" target="_hplink">report on B.C.'s child labour laws</a>, showing staggering statistics such as: 43% reported injuries including a handful on permanent disability, Worksafe BC paid out 1.1M in claims to children</li>
<li>] REF=2</li>
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<li><strong>] YATS ( yet another Teachers strike )&nbsp;</strong></li>
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<li>] <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/topic/Tag/B.C.%20teachers'%20strike" target="_blank">2014</a>&nbsp;- the latest strike in a series of Teacher strikes</li>
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<li><strong>] edugate&nbsp;</strong></li>
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<li>] REF=2</li>
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<li><strong>] Nestle</strong></li>
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<li>] signs deal with gov for $2.25 per Million Liters of BC water. No restrictions on quantity</li>
<li>]&nbsp;<a href="http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2015/02/24/Nestle-Pays-Nothing-to-Bottle-Water/" target="_blank">http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2015/02/24/Nestle-Pays-Nothing-to-Bottle-Water/</a></li>
<li>] COMMENT sarah miller -&nbsp;The plant only created 75 jobs more then half of which are not full time or listed as permanent. Also the fact that Nestle is the owner of the plant, a company that is known to take water from areas all around the world in severe droughts and unimaginable conditions for residents and farm land. The owner of Neste openly states human beings don't have a right to water.&nbsp;</li>
<li>] REF=2</li>
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<li><strong>] fired&nbsp;</strong></li>
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<li>] BC&nbsp;health care minstry's unjust firing of eight health ministry researchers with allegations of breach of privacy. Gov claimed there was an RCMP investigation, but <a href="http://www.vancouversun.com/health/RCMP+probe+fired+health+workers+never+happened/11106928/story.html" target="_blank">RCMP never recieved any documentation</a> to begin one. Everyone calling for a public inquiry, gov refuses. Big pharma implicated&nbsp;</li>
<li>] REF=2</li>
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<li><strong>] religion &nbsp;</strong></li>
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<li>]&nbsp;<a href="http://globalnews.ca/news/1933249/province-gives-1-million-for-upgrade-of-historic-vancouver-church/" target="_blank">no seperation of church and state here</a></li>
<li>] REF=2</li>
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<li><strong>] yogagate</strong></li>
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<li>]&nbsp;<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/06/11/christy-clark-yoga-twitter-burrard-bridge_n_7563640.html" target="_blank">http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/06/11/christy-clark-yoga-twitter-burrard-bridge_n_7563640.html?</a></li>
<li>] REF=2</li>
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<li><strong>] translink tax</strong></li>
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<li><strong>] $old for 43M &lt; appraised value to liberal party donor*</strong></li>
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<li>]&nbsp;<a href="http://www.vancouversun.com/business/hosed+Port+Coquitlam+land+sale+Liberal+donor/10971517/story.html" target="_blank">gov sold 150 hectares of port coquitlam</a> land to liberal party donor for $43 million below appraised value.</li>
<li>] REF=2</li>
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<li><strong>] ethnic vote*&nbsp;</strong></li>
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<li>]&nbsp;<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/02/27/bc-ethnic-vote-plan-liberals-leaked_n_2777292.html" target="_blank">"building political capital in ethnic communities by taking what will be perceived as thoughtful and caring actions."</a></li>
<li>] REF=2&nbsp;</li>
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<li><strong>] mass closures of public services*^&nbsp;</strong></li>
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<li>] <a href="http://lailayuile.com/100-reasons-the-bc-liberals-must-go/" target="_blank">List of programs that have recieved cuts to services under Liberal government</a></li>
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<li><strong>] cuts&nbsp;</strong></li>
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<li>] in services to balance budget,&nbsp;&nbsp;closure of 24 out of 68 courthouses, 10 jails, 176 schools, 85% of legal aid offices closed, the elimination of conservation officers and removal of programs such as the early intervention autism programs.</li>
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<li><strong>] sold</strong></li>
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<li>]&nbsp;sale of government assets to balance budget</li>
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<li><strong>] insiders&nbsp;</strong></li>
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<li>] Refurbish BC Ferry for $15M, sell to BC Liberal party insider for $1M &nbsp;</li>
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<li><strong>] proposed site C dam.^</strong></li>
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<li><strong>] Mount Polley</strong></li>
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<li><strong>] $514 million dollar stadium roof&nbsp;</strong></li>
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<li>] Dallas Cowboys built a brand new state of the art stadium from the ground up for 1B, BC taxpayer paid over .5 B to repair the roof of a middle aged stadium?</li>
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<li><strong>] <a href="/view/article?id=4798" target="_blank">Panorama</a>&nbsp;</strong></li>
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<li>] and other health care IT systems - wasted hundreds of millions of dollars on systems that were not delivered, delivered late or delivered incomplete</li>
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<li><strong>] Shawnigan Lake</strong></li>
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<li>] approving a toxic dump site located over a town's drinking water source</li>
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<li><strong>] clawback</strong></li>
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<li>] after 9 years without an increase, the 2016 budget raised the disability benefit by $77 month, then took back the free transit pass valued at $54 month</li>
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<li><strong>]&nbsp;<a href="/view/article?id=4949" target="_blank">inaction</a></strong></li>
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<li>] in the Greater Vancouver/Fraser Valley's red hot real estate market, leaving the "working classes" <span style="text-decoration: underline;">priced out</span> of the home ownership market</li>
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<li><strong>] <a href="/view/article?id=5089" target="_blank">stipend</a>&nbsp;</strong></li>
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<li>] BC premier Clark recieving a 50K salary top up(aka stipend) from the BC Liberal Party for "fundraising" efforts.</li>
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<h2>[-and-] "the ugly"</h2>
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<li><strong>] selling the LNG fantasy?skullfuckery</strong></li>
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<li>]&nbsp;Christy is desperate to keep her LNG dream alive but do we really want to</li>
<li>] Opinion -&nbsp;<a href="http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2015/12/21/Premier-Clark-LNG-Fibs/" target="_blank">3 lies Premier is telling about LNG</a>&nbsp;- by Damien Gillis - Sorry, it's not clean. It won't pay off. It's not popular. Here's why.</li>
<li>]&nbsp;<a href="http://thetyee.ca/News/2015/12/14/Christy-Clark-LNG-Promises/" target="_blank">Interview - Clark on LNG-promises</a></li>
<li>] REF=2,&nbsp;</li>
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<li><strong>] delete delete delete</strong></li>
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<li>] government caught deleting emails to avoid access to information requests.&nbsp;</li>
<li>]&nbsp;<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/email-scandal-1.3284856" target="_blank">http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/email-scandal-1.3284856</a>&nbsp;- Report on the triple delete email scandal</li>
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<li><strong>] hiring Laura Miller as Liberal Party CEO, twice&nbsp;</strong></li>
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<li><strong>] childcare ministry&nbsp;</strong></li>
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<li><strong>] the highest child poverty rate in canada, again</strong></li>
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<h2>[HOW-TO]</h2>
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<h2>[REFERENCE]</h2>
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<li>] # 6116 -&nbsp;<a href="/view/task?id=6116" target="_blank">CREATE-article#</a>&nbsp;4967 BC liberal government track record(this) ] By Don Sagrott, founder@sospep.com - A collection of stories pertaining to the government of BC, formed by the Liberal party, from 2002 - today. the GOOD, the BAD and the UGLY</li>
<li>] <a href="/view/person?id=72" target="_blank">Christy Clark</a> - Leader, BC liberal party, profile, contact details</li>
<li>[2015-07-15]&nbsp;<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/sarah-miller2/top-9-scandals-christy-clark-liberals_b_7658002.html" target="_blank">http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/sarah-miller2/top-9-scandals-christy-clark-liberals_b_7658002.html</a>&nbsp;</li>
<li>[2016-01-15]&nbsp;<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/sarah-miller2/christy-clark-scandal_b_8984182.html" target="_blank">9 More scandals of Christy Clarks BC Liberal Government</a>,&nbsp;</li>
<li>+] dear Christy&nbsp;</li>
<li>]&nbsp;<a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/sarah-miller2/bc-surplus_b_7821072.html" target="_blank">http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/sarah-miller2/bc-surplus_b_7821072.html</a></li>
<li>]&nbsp;<a href="http://www.timescolonist.com/news/b-c/b-c-economic-growth-worst-in-canada-analysis-1.1738939#sthash.4tDiyl8e.dpuf" target="_blank">http://www.timescolonist.com/news/b-c/b-c-economic-growth-worst-in-canada-analysis-1.1738939#sthash.4tDiyl8e.dpuf&nbsp;</a></li>
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<h1 style="text-align: center;">~ comment mine ~</h1>
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<p>&gt; such as: closure of 24 out of 68 courthouses, 10 jails, 176 schools, 85% of legal aid offices closed, the elimination of conservation officers and removal of programs such as the early intervention autism programs.</p>
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<p><strong>Shelley Falk-Ouellette ON site C&nbsp;</strong></p>
<p>&nbsp;&gt; Not only has she taken #1 agricultural land out of the ALR behind our backs, it is alluvial soil and has the potential to feed a great number of people. It is the only alluvial soil in the north and will be forever lost. With the drought in California and the very high price of imported food, we're losing a valuable resource. Among the reasons this dam should never be built are the cutting off of the Y2Y corridor, displacing thousands upon thousands of migratory shore birds during their migration, destroying breeding grounds for several endangered species, displacing land owners and farmers who have been in the valley for several generations, creating a carbon and mercury emitting reservoir, desecrating First Nations burial grounds, ceremonial sites and their treaty rights, putting the Peace Athabasca and McKenzie deltas at great risk and last but not least, putting a 9 billion dollar bill on the tax payers shoulders. Lets not even talk about the re-issuing of permits for the Mt. Polley mine to re-open. The damage to Canada's deepest glacier fed lake is an environmental nightmare that can never be corrected or cleaned up, but allows Imperial Metals to continue to pollute at will. When will her path of destruction end? When will the citizens of BC finally wake up and say enough is enough?</p>
<p>- the fees that originated during the Campbell era.</p>
<p>&nbsp;For example, she had no issues giving all of her inner circle 15%+ raises while telling teachers there was no money available for them. They have also squandered billions on projects such as the 2010 Winter Olympics, the Surrey Ring Road, the Port Mann expansion&nbsp;</p>
<p>- 300-500 staffers, MLA's declined&nbsp;</p>
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<p>.and the hospitals across the province that have had emergency rooms shut down and relocated to larger centres....get in an accident on the Coq and instead of Merritt hospital you have an extra 20 minute transport time to get to Kamloops</p>
<p>But what does it say about a government that brags about a $1,7 billion surplus when 1 out of 5 children live in poverty? When our children are funded $1000 LESS in their education then the average child in Canada? When our hospitals are overcrowded and school are falling apart? When seniors cant afford their housing/food/medication? When people cant get a doctor or a life saving surgery?&nbsp;</p>
<p><strong>Sarah Miller &middot; Nanaimo, British Columbia ON nestle&nbsp;</strong></p>
<p>I respectively disagree with the Hope water not being an issue. The plant only created 75 jobs more then half of which are not full time or listed as permanent. Also the fact that Nestle is the owner of the plant, a company that is known to take water from areas all around the world in severe droughts and unimaginable conditions for residents and farm land. The owner of Neste openly states human beings don't have a right to water.&nbsp;</p>
<p>If on the other hand this operation was managed by a more local based company that created more fulltime long term jobs and invested more in taxes and into the local economy, I would no doubt see it differently.</p>
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<p><strong>Robert Dixon &middot; University of Calgary ON economy</strong></p>
<p>"B.C. economic growth worst in Canada: analysis"&nbsp;</p>
<p>"Median income fell 2.4 per cent between 2006 and 2012, compared to a 3.5-per-cent increase nationally. OTTAWA &mdash; B.C. experienced the worst income growth &mdash; in fact, incomes declined &mdash; of any province in Canada during the 2006-12 period, according to an analysis of Statistics Canada data by an Ottawa think-tank. B.C.&rsquo;s inflation-adjusted median income fell 2.4 per cent, from $29,917 per tax filer to $29,200, during a period when Canada&rsquo;s overall employment income grew by 3.5 per cent. Median income is the midway point between the lowest and highest incomes. Ontario, with a manufacturing sector devastated by the 2008 recession, suffered a 1.7-per-cent decline and was the only other province to suffer negative growth. The bleak performance was particularly striking in B.C. cities, with Metro Vancouver employment incomes falling three per cent, Victoria&rsquo;s 4.8 per cent, and Abbotsford&rsquo;s 5.1 per cent".&nbsp;</p>
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