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Originally Posted by csbvan
I can't believe that, when I move to Quebec this summer, I will be moving to a less corrupt jurisdiction
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You can not get any less corrupt than Quebec, it runs very deep, with unions, politicians and organized crime all colluding with each other. Don't forget things like SNC-Lavalin and Bombardier bribery on the international stage. It's bad enough to require it's own task force.
Meanwhile in BC, the extent of corruption tends to be accusations of the BC government, repeatedly, taking money and selling off public assets, or the RCMP being involved in crimes of their own.
One could be excused for not understanding or even caring about the depth of corruption in BC, but just because we accuse the politicians of being corrupt, does not make it so.
And that is something that young voters seemingly are unwilling to concede.
The NDP offers nothing to young voters but empty promises of "being better", but that is not meaningful when the status quo is only measured against the NDP's previous bad image.
Most political conversations go something like this.
"Gee the Liberals suck about ____"
"Not as bad as the NDP's fast ferry fiasco" ($450 million, from $210 million)
"Your right, it's not that bad yet"
So the Liberals will get away with everything until they waste a not-insignificant amount of tax payer dollars on some epic boondoggle. That's all BC Tax payers care about. LNG and Site C are not those. The only boondoggle in the cards is the Surrey LRT, and the City of Surrey will ultimately get the blame for it.
There is ultimately nothing remarkable in the last budget. For the Liberals to fail as badly as the Glen Clark NDP, one of these province-ordered projects has to double in budgeted cost before the election. The most likely project is the GMT replacement which seems rushed, but it will just be getting started in 2017.
In the grand scheme of things, there is nothing to pin blame on the Liberals except the real estate price escalation, and even that has more to do with Federal anti-money-laundering rules, and Quebec's foreign investor program, and nothing to do with the BC Liberals.
So I will not be surprised if the BC Liberals win again. Clark lost her seat last time, I would not be surprised if that happens again.
But the NDP still has no winning strategy, and still refuses to rebrand, so maybe they don't want to win.