Carole James spoke yesterday to the Business Council of BC in an attempt to make nice with business, but despite her protests that she’s different from the NDP of the 1990s, no one was buying it.
James said if she were in charge, she’d build homes, instead of the kinds of infrastructure projects starting now that can help turn our economy around. She made it clear that she plans to change the labour code, likely eliminating the democratic rights of workers and making it easier for unions to organize. That is no surprise given the NDP’s intimate relationship with big labour, but is hardly the kind of thing a business audience needs to hear to have any trust in someone who wants to lead this province during an economic crisis.
She told the Business Council that she would “study” green projects like run of river hydro, which really means she’ll make the approval process so cumbersome as to put an end to them. She says she’s going to consult with business, but that’s political code for “I’m making changes and they’re not good for you.”
There have been a lot of questions lately about the NDP’s lack of any experience in the private sector, and how they could possibly run the province’s economy with no business experience among their candidates.
So we listened closely when James was asked about the complete lack of business experience in her field of candidates. And we couldn’t help laughing uproariously at her answer. It seems there are a whopping two candidates (among 85 ridings!?) with experience in the private sector – a lawyer and a farmer. Oh sure, that instils confidence, doesn’t it?
No matter how many times she claims to be different from the NDP of the 1990s, the NDP who destroyed our province’s economy, she’s not different. She’s surrounded by the same people and making the same mistakes.
Carole James and the NDP. Wrong party, wrong leader, wrong time.
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14 years ago
When you say business experience, do you mean greasing government for your friends to make millions?
ReplyDeleteGovernment isn't a business and shouldn't be run like one. This belief is one of the many reasons we are in an economic mess and the Campbell government is on trial. The problem folks like yourself have with the NDP isn't that they are anti-business because they are not. It is that they consider business as one of many stakeholders, not their special lap dog.
i also wan't to note vancouver fraserview ndp candidate Gabriel yiu runs a successful floral business. and in the 1990's the ndp lowered the small business tax rate to lower than alberta's, and the bcliberals did not lower small business taxes until 2008 a full seven years after they took office. most small business people know the ndp has always been the most small business friendly. the bcliberals stand up for wal-mart not small business
ReplyDeleteThere have not been "alot of questions" about Carole's experience outside of the one blog you link to.
ReplyDeleteHere is a very good response to that blog article from 'Battleground BC'
http://butchershoppe.blogspot.com/2009/02/bc-liberal-reach-around.html
It's amazing how bitter and angry Hochstein and the ICBA are. It would be more credible if you actually spoke out for businesses instead of the tired anti NDP rhetoric all the time. Why doesn't the ICBA get angry at the Liberals for all the small, medium and large forestry companies they have forced to close with bad forestry policy.
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