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Originally Posted by crazyjoeda
This whole referendum is a joke, and it's not funny.
The mayors should be working with the province to fund these projects. Christy Clark has got to be the worst premier this province has ever had. We need leadership on this issue and the premier is showing absolutely none.
Nobody wants to pay more taxes and few people will educated themselves enough to make a thoughtful choice in the referendum. The way I see it, we elect a government to make tough and sometimes unpopular decisions. Often the right thing to do isn't popular.
If a negligible sales tax increase for better transit is a good idea then it should be implemented.
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No, the worst Premier ever is still Glen Clark, despite the fact that the Millenium Line and the Fast Ferries were built. This guy built capital projects at the wrong time, and in the case of the Fast Ferries, wrong technology.
You could also pin Gordon Campbell as a runner up, despite having the Canada line built, and built on time... at the cost of P3 project requirements undermining the the long term funding of the project. This also got the Evergreen Line funded.
http://news.ubc.ca/wp-content/upload...erformance.pdf
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Politics and Performance:
British Columbia’s Economic and Fiscal Experience
under the NDP and BC Liberals 1991-2013
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See the problem with saying that X is the worst ever, is that it's only within a very narrow context. Getting Boo'd at the Olympics probably cements Gordon Campbell as the one to be the most publicly embarrassed. Glen Clark? He's president of the Jim Pattison Group. Gordon Cambell? Canadian High commissioner to the UK. Cushy jobs await after being a "bad" BC Premier.
The referendum is a Joke, and it already is as good as dead when unofficial polls are already 75% against it. Both Global and CTV ran polls already with similar numbers. If there's any chance of getting people to vote for it, reach for your media contacts.