Mr. Rustad has been a member of the Legislative Assembly in B.C. since 2005. He supported policies when he was part of the BC Liberals that he now disavows: The Liberals introduced the carbon-pricing regime, supported expansion of supervised drug-consumption sites, and brought in sexual orientation and gender identity education in schools. He says he regrets getting the “so-called vaccine” for COVID-19. In 2019, he voted in favour of the province’s law enabling the principles of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples – he told the House that it was “the right thing to do” – but now he wants to repeal that law.
“We are at the end of a cycle. The moral posturing of the woke agenda has collided with reality and no longer has credible solutions to offer to the actual problems of the world.” ~ Javier Milei, President of Argentina
The idealistic notions coming from government and academic sources do not mesh with reality… It's time those ideas stay in the fantasy world of philosophy for the sake of imagining different things and that's all. For any government to attempt to enforce woke ideas upon the medical profession, the educational system, and the general employment system does not make sense. The well-paid University profs, politicians, and those simply disgruntled with the way things are need to understand that they don't know what they're talking about. And admit it. you cant insist an unskilled person must be given a job operating a boat when a professional boat operator is also applying for the job.
"BC NDP Leader David Eby is promising the party will provide 25,000 new homes at 60 per cent of market value to help British Columbians put a roof over their head if the party wins the upcoming election." ..... Question: Whose money will he be using to buy these homes with? This is twenty pounds of manure, in a ten pound sack.
No matter if you are NDP, Liberal or Conservative, access to a waiting list is not access to health care. Sitting in an emergency ward for 8 hours without getting treatment is not health care. Being told the emergency room is closed is not health care. Being put on a surgical waitlist for months is not health care.
....from the Fraser Institute...... (this is worth reading) "The Eby government plans to run a massive $7.9 billion budget deficit this fiscal year. This would be the largest deficit in provincial history and the largest deficit in Canada (relative to the size of each province’s economy).
And yet, the $7.9 billion official deficit number actually understates the government’s financial mismanagement this year. Indeed, a closer look shows that things are even worse than they appear.
For starters, the government’s accounting of its revenue (and therefore its overall budget balance) makes no distinction between tax revenue and non-renewable resource royalties (mainly from natural gas).
Why is this a problem?
Because non-renewable resource royalties are onetime revenues, depleted each year when the resources are extracted and sold. In other words, you can’t generate tax revenues from the same natural gas source more than once.
Rather than spend away these revenues each year, the government should save and invest them so they generate an ongoing stream of revenue in the form of interest on investments. Treating non-renewable resource revenue like other forms of taxes is akin to selling the family silver one year but spending as though you’ll be able to sell the silver every year. For perspective, if you exclude natural gas royalties from total revenue, the B.C. government’s $7.9 billion deficit jumps to $8.7 billion this fiscal year (2024/25). Clearly, the government is relying heavily on resource royalties to fund its spending.
Another problem is the government’s treatment of carbon tax revenue. When the B.C. government introduced its carbon tax, it promised the tax would never be a “tax grab” because it would be “revenue neutral”—that is, all the money raised from the tax would be used to reduce other taxes so the government would collect the same amount as before. This aligns with widely accepted best practises for carbon tax design.
The government dropped this commitment, however, starting in 2013/14, and in later years reversed several business and personal income tax reductions that had been designed to offset the carbon tax. In fact, the government went much further, raising some tax rates higher than they had been originally.
So, the carbon tax is no longer revenue neutral. Some of the money is returned to British Columbians through a tax credit to low- and middle-income residents, but not all of it. By holding onto some of the carbon tax revenue rather than returning it to taxpayers, the government is keeping the deficit smaller than it would be if the government adhered to best practises for a carbon tax. In fact, if the carbon tax were truly revenue neutral, the deficit would increase by hundreds of millions of dollars.
And that’s not all. The Eby government’s official deficit number for this fiscal year is only based on day-to-day operating expenses including salaries of government employees and interest payments on debt. The government excludes spending on longer-term capital projects such as highways and bridges even though they increase provincial debt.
This government uses this accounting approach because capital projects are assumed to provide benefits over the long term. However, once you factor in capital spending, B.C.’s debt (after accounting for financial assets) increases by $18.9 billion this year, more than twice the government’s official operating deficit.
The Eby government has entered uncharted waters, with historically large operating deficits. What’s more, it’s conveniently including non-renewable resource royalties in general revenues, and using carbon tax revenue that should be returned to British Columbians to prevent the official deficit from growing even larger.
The government’s official deficit looks bad. When you take a closer look, things go from bad to much, much worse."
Osborne took her financial abilities directly from Tofino council chambers to her new role in Eby's provincial government. Spend. Spend all the money, enter into huge debt packages, dispose of the taxpayers' assets. Sling money around and claim that this is you serving the people, when actually all you're doing is blowing through their money. Give away public lands. Dramatically increase the civil service. She once said that "tax dollars" aren't like "real" money, so they can be spent more freely. She's cute, she's sneaky and devious, but she's an idiot, too, she thinks that her seat is safe.
Gotta agree, she deserves to be fired. This copy/paste shows how much she actually cares about her constituents and our province, she's only in it for her own gain. ........There's a shipbreaking operation in Union Bay that has been advised by authorities to deal with the discharge of unacceptable amounts of toxins into the sea. Concerned citizens there asked their MLA to speak on the matter. They were told that the MLA had no comment at this time, and was busy with other matters. Josie Osborne has no comment! She's a f***in' marine biologist! And she has no comment.
I’m old enough to remember 2017, a time when you could get a family doctor, afford to buy a house, there were only two genders, open drug use was illegal and the drugs certainly weren’t free, the judicial system was flawed, but criminals were somewhat punished, seniors could afford to live on a pension, religions were practiced behind doors not in the streets, women had there own sports, downtowns were safe to walk, Canada had a great national anthem and best of all an identity. Ah, the good old days.
As we approach a special day for some Canadians it is time to reflect on what happened. Yes some Canadians were conquered by better technology such as guns vs arrows but history repeats itself and many other Canadians in their lives or their family's lives experienced similar treatment before they came to Canada. In many parts of the world today they don’t even have arrows against the guns and other weapons and can only throw stones. All the other Canadians just seem to get on and make the most of their lives and are thankful to have found a safe(r) place in the world.
While the powers that be are ringing their hands and beating their breasts about reconciliation and residential schools nobody seems to notice that in the last eight years there's been 14,000 drug related deaths in BC and 174 in August alone. The present government doesn't seem to see that as a problem and is giving out free drugs and making the most lethal drugs legal and there's no consequences for being an addict. Many of those drug deaths are indigenous people but we don't call the current government's policy genocide. this laissez-faire attitude is disgusting and ranks right up there with the government continuing a long-standing policy of selling as much alcohol to anyone as they can buy regardless of the consequences to the medical system, healthcare professionals, the judicial system, law-enforcement, culture, families and society in general. bleeding hearts are all about the past as long as they don't have to confront the present and do something about it.
Mr. Rustad has been a member of the Legislative Assembly in B.C. since 2005. He supported policies when he was part of the BC Liberals that he now disavows: The Liberals introduced the carbon-pricing regime, supported expansion of supervised drug-consumption sites, and brought in sexual orientation and gender identity education in schools. He says he regrets getting the “so-called vaccine” for COVID-19. In 2019, he voted in favour of the province’s law enabling the principles of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples – he told the House that it was “the right thing to do” – but now he wants to repeal that law.
ReplyDeletePeoples positions change with experiance and knowledge. 11:43 look at Mr Eby if you want to witness flip flopping on a grand scale.
DeleteThey are all full of BS and its only about voting for the lesser of the idiots
ReplyDelete“We are at the end of a cycle. The moral posturing of the woke agenda has collided with reality and no longer has credible solutions to offer to the actual problems of the world.”
ReplyDelete~ Javier Milei, President of Argentina
The idealistic notions coming from government and academic sources do not mesh with reality… It's time those ideas stay in the fantasy world of philosophy for the sake of imagining different things and that's all. For any government to attempt to enforce woke ideas upon the medical profession, the educational system, and the general employment system does not make sense. The well-paid University profs, politicians, and those simply disgruntled with the way things are need to understand that they don't know what they're talking about. And admit it. you cant insist an unskilled person must be given a job operating a boat when a professional boat operator is also applying for the job.
ReplyDelete"BC NDP Leader David Eby is promising the party will provide 25,000 new homes at 60 per cent of market value to help British Columbians put a roof over their head if the party wins the upcoming election."
ReplyDelete..... Question: Whose money will he be using to buy these homes with? This is twenty pounds of manure, in a ten pound sack.
No matter if you are NDP, Liberal or Conservative, access to a waiting list is not access to health care. Sitting in an emergency ward for 8 hours without getting treatment is not health care. Being told the emergency room is closed is not health care. Being put on a surgical waitlist for months is not health care.
ReplyDelete....from the Fraser Institute...... (this is worth reading) "The Eby government plans to run a massive $7.9 billion budget deficit this fiscal year. This would be the largest deficit in provincial history and the largest deficit in Canada (relative to the size of each province’s economy).
ReplyDeleteAnd yet, the $7.9 billion official deficit number actually understates the government’s financial mismanagement this year. Indeed, a closer look shows that things are even worse than they appear.
For starters, the government’s accounting of its revenue (and therefore its overall budget balance) makes no distinction between tax revenue and non-renewable resource royalties (mainly from natural gas).
Why is this a problem?
Because non-renewable resource royalties are onetime revenues, depleted each year when the resources are extracted and sold. In other words, you can’t generate tax revenues from the same natural gas source more than once.
Rather than spend away these revenues each year, the government should save and invest them so they generate an ongoing stream of revenue in the form of interest on investments. Treating non-renewable resource revenue like other forms of taxes is akin to selling the family silver one year but spending as though you’ll be able to sell the silver every year. For perspective, if you exclude natural gas royalties from total revenue, the B.C. government’s $7.9 billion deficit jumps to $8.7 billion this fiscal year (2024/25). Clearly, the government is relying heavily on resource royalties to fund its spending.
Another problem is the government’s treatment of carbon tax revenue. When the B.C. government introduced its carbon tax, it promised the tax would never be a “tax grab” because it would be “revenue neutral”—that is, all the money raised from the tax would be used to reduce other taxes so the government would collect the same amount as before. This aligns with widely accepted best practises for carbon tax design.
The government dropped this commitment, however, starting in 2013/14, and in later years reversed several business and personal income tax reductions that had been designed to offset the carbon tax. In fact, the government went much further, raising some tax rates higher than they had been originally.
So, the carbon tax is no longer revenue neutral. Some of the money is returned to British Columbians through a tax credit to low- and middle-income residents, but not all of it. By holding onto some of the carbon tax revenue rather than returning it to taxpayers, the government is keeping the deficit smaller than it would be if the government adhered to best practises for a carbon tax. In fact, if the carbon tax were truly revenue neutral, the deficit would increase by hundreds of millions of dollars.
And that’s not all. The Eby government’s official deficit number for this fiscal year is only based on day-to-day operating expenses including salaries of government employees and interest payments on debt. The government excludes spending on longer-term capital projects such as highways and bridges even though they increase provincial debt.
This government uses this accounting approach because capital projects are assumed to provide benefits over the long term. However, once you factor in capital spending, B.C.’s debt (after accounting for financial assets) increases by $18.9 billion this year, more than twice the government’s official operating deficit.
The Eby government has entered uncharted waters, with historically large operating deficits. What’s more, it’s conveniently including non-renewable resource royalties in general revenues, and using carbon tax revenue that should be returned to British Columbians to prevent the official deficit from growing even larger.
The government’s official deficit looks bad. When you take a closer look, things go from bad to much, much worse."
Osborne took her financial abilities directly from Tofino council chambers to her new role in Eby's provincial government. Spend. Spend all the money, enter into huge debt packages, dispose of the taxpayers' assets. Sling money around and claim that this is you serving the people, when actually all you're doing is blowing through their money. Give away public lands. Dramatically increase the civil service. She once said that "tax dollars" aren't like "real" money, so they can be spent more freely. She's cute, she's sneaky and devious, but she's an idiot, too, she thinks that her seat is safe.
DeleteThere's always hope. It's possible that Josie might just be unemployed as of October 20th.
ReplyDeleteGotta agree, she deserves to be fired. This copy/paste shows how much she actually cares about her constituents and our province, she's only in it for her own gain.
Delete........There's a shipbreaking operation in Union Bay that has been advised by authorities to deal with the discharge of unacceptable amounts of toxins into the sea. Concerned citizens there asked their MLA to speak on the matter. They were told that the MLA had no comment at this time, and was busy with other matters.
Josie Osborne has no comment! She's a f***in' marine biologist! And she has no comment.
Why are Josie’s pictorial signs more red than orange? Would it have something to do with the federal coalition?
ReplyDeleteI’m old enough to remember 2017, a time when you could get a family doctor, afford to buy a house, there were only two genders, open drug use was illegal and the drugs certainly weren’t free, the judicial system was flawed, but criminals were somewhat punished, seniors could afford to live on a pension, religions were practiced behind doors not in the streets, women had there own sports, downtowns were safe to walk, Canada had a great national anthem and best of all an identity. Ah, the good old days.
ReplyDeleteBack then Tofino actually celebrated Canada Day !
ReplyDeleteAs we approach a special day for some Canadians it is time to reflect on what happened. Yes some Canadians were conquered by better technology such as guns vs arrows but history repeats itself and many other Canadians in their lives or their family's lives experienced similar treatment before they came to Canada. In many parts of the world today they don’t even have arrows against the guns and other weapons and can only throw stones.
ReplyDeleteAll the other Canadians just seem to get on and make the most of their lives and are thankful to have found a safe(r) place in the world.
While the powers that be are ringing their hands and beating their breasts about reconciliation and residential schools nobody seems to notice that in the last eight years there's been 14,000 drug related deaths in BC and 174 in August alone. The present government doesn't seem to see that as a problem and is giving out free drugs and making the most lethal drugs legal and there's no consequences for being an addict. Many of those drug deaths are indigenous people but we don't call the current government's policy genocide. this laissez-faire attitude is disgusting and ranks right up there with the government continuing a long-standing policy of selling as much alcohol to anyone as they can buy regardless of the consequences to the medical system, healthcare professionals, the judicial system, law-enforcement, culture, families and society in general. bleeding hearts are all about the past as long as they don't have to confront the present and do something about it.
ReplyDeleteits estimated that as much as 70% of the overdose deaths are indigenous young people.
ReplyDeleteThree cheers for the Needles, Drugs and Poverty gang!!
ReplyDelete