(May 5, 2009 – VANCOUVER) An Environics poll released yesterday shows the BC Liberals with an 11 per cent lead over the NDP, but that margin has the Independent Contractors and Businesses Association (ICBA) of BC and the Canadian Home Builders’ Association of British Columbia (CHBA BC) rallying everyone touched by construction in BC to ensure voters get out to the polls to stop the possibility of an NDP win.
“If the NDP win, they have promised to bring back policies that will destroy the competitiveness of BC’s construction sector, so even with this lead in today’s poll, we cannot be complacent,” says ICBA President Philip Hochstein. The poll was sponsored by ICBA, and results released today show that 47% of voters support the Liberals, with 36% of voters supporting the NDP, 12% for the Green Party, and 16% undecided.
“The NDP platform shows their hostility to the interests of home builders and home buyers, by proposing significant re-regulation that would disadvantage independent construction companies and raise prices across the board,” says Tim Kasten, President of CHBA BC. “Our industry has worked collaboratively to build a strong industry training system in recent years, but the NDP is proposing to undermine these improvements in one fell swoop. We can’t stand by and let that happen.”
With the NDP platform demonstrating a continued willingness to sacrifice economic logic and the greater good to the interests of big labour, Hochstein and Kasten are urging anyone involved in construction, home building or home buying to rally their friends, family and colleagues to ensure voter turnout is high on May 12th.
“The last time the NDP were in charge, they directly attacked independent, family-owned construction businesses with policies like union-only hiring, pension suspension legislation, and badly hurt the economy,” added Kasten. “Carole James and the NDP are the wrong party and wrong leader at the wrong time, and we have to be sure voters who agree with that get out to the polls.”
“If the NDP win, they have promised to bring back policies that will destroy the competitiveness of BC’s construction sector, so even with this lead in today’s poll, we cannot be complacent,” says ICBA President Philip Hochstein. The poll was sponsored by ICBA, and results released today show that 47% of voters support the Liberals, with 36% of voters supporting the NDP, 12% for the Green Party, and 16% undecided.
“The NDP platform shows their hostility to the interests of home builders and home buyers, by proposing significant re-regulation that would disadvantage independent construction companies and raise prices across the board,” says Tim Kasten, President of CHBA BC. “Our industry has worked collaboratively to build a strong industry training system in recent years, but the NDP is proposing to undermine these improvements in one fell swoop. We can’t stand by and let that happen.”
With the NDP platform demonstrating a continued willingness to sacrifice economic logic and the greater good to the interests of big labour, Hochstein and Kasten are urging anyone involved in construction, home building or home buying to rally their friends, family and colleagues to ensure voter turnout is high on May 12th.
“The last time the NDP were in charge, they directly attacked independent, family-owned construction businesses with policies like union-only hiring, pension suspension legislation, and badly hurt the economy,” added Kasten. “Carole James and the NDP are the wrong party and wrong leader at the wrong time, and we have to be sure voters who agree with that get out to the polls.”
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