The growth of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is one of the most important indicators of economic health, and shows how well our provincial economy performs in terms of jobs and investment and the likelihood of improved incomes and living standards.
Source: BC Financial and Economic Reviews
This chart compares the final seven years of the NDP and the first six full years of BC Liberal government. There is no comparison. During the NDP’s reign BC badly under-performed as our province’s s growth fell behind the national average by a whopping 25 per cent. On the other hand, since the Liberals took over, GDP growth has exceeded national growth by almost 25 per cent.
Carol James and the NDP. Wrong party. Wrong leader. Wrong time.
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And the NDP and their supporters would have you believe that that's just a coincidence. While that's funny, the threat the NDP poses to British Columbia is most definitely not.
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I also notice the NDP has 3 years above average and one year at average. The Liberals have 1 year above the average and 1 year at the average. So the Liberals actually performed below the average more years ( 4 to 3) then the NDP and the NDP as a year in hand.
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The NDPs best year is far and above the best year on the chart.
ReplyDeleteOnce again it seems we get an argument without facts!
ReplyDeleteA fuzzy chart with no sources, no matter how bright and colourful, does not an argument make!
Your chart doesn't even jive with the official numbers http://www.bcstats.gov.bc.ca/data/bus_stat/bcea/bcgdp.asp
It shows that vote smart BC is either not very smart or worse purposely misleading the BC public.
ReplyDeleteThanks to Jared for the link to BC stats, which allowed me to also check out the table showing that per capita real disposable income actually dropped multiple years under the NDP.
ReplyDeletePerhaps that will inform a future entry by our friends at VotesmartBC.
http://www.bcstats.gov.bc.ca/data/bus_stat/bcea/tab1.asp
No wonder the NDP cannot run a peanut stand if they believe the economic performance of the province was the same under the NDP as it has been under the BC Liberals according to the chart above. Under the NDP, average growth lagged behind the Canadian average by 25 per cent and under the BC Liberals average growth was 24 per cent ahead of the Canadian average. For you NDPers the higher the line, the better. See, the lines on the right are higher
ReplyDeleteKick their a**. That will be all.
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ReplyDeleteNever mind the chart. I remember when my oldest son, the engineer had to leave the province to find a job. I remember when my neighbour had to wait 5 years for gall bladder surgery. I remember when my youngest son, the geneticist, couldn't take a calculus class in grade 12 because there was no money to hire a teacher.
ReplyDeleteIt's the personal issues we need to focus on, especially if we are not unionized employees who will be getting hefty wage increases to keep up with the taxes the NDP will impose on us.
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ReplyDeleteLets see how about the billion dollars that Gordon and his gangsters threw away by tieing up the fast cats. I inspected those ships personaly not a thing wrong with them. Completely a polical stunt by Gordon himself. How about the near billion dollars being spend on New ferries at the most expensive shipyards in the world. The sale of the BC Gas company for 9 billion to a middle east backed company, but one can find the 9 billion, the sale of the BC rail for nothing at all to CN. After Gordo's agent told all other buyers including me that CN had bid 1 billion dollars in cash for BC rail, that turned out to be a lie. The list just keeps going how many and how much do the people of British Columbia need to know about before they put the run to these Liberal
ReplyDeleteThe fast cats were dangerous to B.C. coast lines and marine environment.
ReplyDeleteAdditionally, they cost a lot of money and were to improve time. But the genuis behind them thought of time as going directly there and back, and did not take into account when the ships had to slow down to dock and such. Since they go faster they have to slow down further out... and before you know it instead of saving as much time as originally intended, it saves perhaps another ten or fifteen minutes. Not really anything special, or to write home about.
But sure, it is convenient somone who inspected them is on here to defend a political party? We cannot allow partisan ideologies from either the BC NDP or BC Liberals to cloud the facts on an issue like this. Anyway, I don't want to be partisan here. Just to state the environmental and economical realities of these fast cats in reply to the guy before me.