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Stockwell is nice guy, not great speaker
To the editor: Stockwell recently announced $9
billion for new prisons during one of the largest deficits in
Canadian history. Where the economic argument alone is
enough to raise concerns about Mr. Day, the fact that Canada’s crime
rate has dropped year after year only confirms those worries. |
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Don't bet against Heed to 'Kash in' yet again By Michael Smyth, The Province August 6, 2010
If former cabinet star is cleared, premier may reinstate him It's been over three months since the Kash Heed comedy of errors,
featuring his multiple resignations and reappointments to cabinet.
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| This is a personal comment made by "Quibbler" that we saw in
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Vernon Morning Star July 7, 2010. It was posted under an
article about Vanderzalms HST fight. The 30 organizations (and some of their member companies) that support the HST, along with their donations to the Liberal Party of BC over the past 4 years are: Business Council of BC, .. no donations found thus far. BC Chamber of Commerce, .. $1.080.00 from various chambers. Institute of Chartered Accountants of BC, .. $17,495.00...from various Accountants. Retail Council of Canada, .. $5,750.00 BC Technology Industry Association, .. $30,590.00 Canadian Manufacturers and Exporters, .. no donations found thus far. Mining Association of BC, .. approximately $926,080.00 Council of Forest Industries, .. about $982,215.00 BC Trucking Association, .. $79,650.00 various trucking companies who are likely members. BC Road Builders and Heavy Construction Association, .. $122,000.00 Coast Forest Products Association, .. about $1,148,100.00 New Car Dealers Association of BC, .. $442,089.00 BC Construction Association, .. $21,000.00 BC Pulp and Paper Steering Committee, .. no donations found thus far. Truck Loggers Association, .. $33,020.00 Motion Picture Industry Association of BC, .. $13,575.00 plus approx $15,000.00 from Vancouver Film Studios Greater Vancouver Gateway Council, .. $12,840.00 from various members. Railway Association of Canada, .. $172,410.00 from CN's David McLean, $43,780.00 FROM CP and $9,250.00 from Southern Railway with BNSF coming in at $4,026.75 Independent Contractors and Businesses Association of BC, .. $60,160.00 direct contribution - plus $612,000 in 2005 and $267,900 in 2009 for a total of about a million in anti-NDP, pro-Liberal advertising from 2005 to 2009. (Thank you Ian!) Initiatives Prince George Development Corporation, .. $695.00 Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, .. $19,820.00 Association for Mineral Exploration BC, .. $9,680.00 New Media BC, .. $1,000.00 Western Convenience Store Association, .. $47,320.00 Canadian Energy Pipeline Association, .. $5,400.00 plus various Pipeline companies donations, .. $131,921.00 BC Agriculture Council, .. no donations found thus far. Coal Association of Canada, .. no donations found thus far. BC Food Processors, .. $10,490.00 Aggregate Producers Association of BC, .. no donations found thus far. Construction Labour Relations Association of BC, .. $61,183.00 Coalition of BC Business, .. $142,000 in anti-NDP, pro-Liberal advertising I'm certain I've missed quite a few, but this should give us an idea. If the biggies can afford these types of donations for politics, they can afford to pay their share of taxes. A couple of other donations caught my eye as well: $16,457.00 from McDonald's Restaurants...instead of rewarding Campbell for lowering wages for this sector, why don't you give your trainees a raise? $345,116.54...from various other restaurants in BC. Wow! Business must have been great in order to serve up that kind of political giftie! Hope you think the same way in 6 months. |
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Newspaper calls for BC minister to resign and columist calls his
actions “misleading” November 29, 2009 — BC Blue The Victoria Times Colonist has called for the resignation of Ben Stewart, Westside-Kelowna Liberal MLA, minister of citizens’ services for his bungling and failure to let the 1,400 people whose files were stolen aware that their personal security was endangered. (see editorial here) Also, Paul Wilcocks from the Times reminds us that even when letters went out finally seven months later to notify the people, some of these letters went to the wrong person causing an added privacy breach! Wilcocks calls the minister’s actions misleading, that he omitted facts, wouldn’t provide basic information when asked about the theft, and that the internal investigation he said he ordered a week ago still doesn’t have any terms of reference. (see story here) Also: see my (as a BC Conservative Party rep) call for his resignation here |
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Press release asking for BC minister’s resignation November 26, 2009 — BC Blue This is the release I put out on behalf of the BC Conservatives today asking for the resignation of the Liberal Minister Ben Stewart for his mishandling of the case of 1,400 people’s files found at a government worker’s home. The kicker added to this scandal today was that this employee was still on the government payroll after the RCMP found all these personal documents and ID making apparatus in the home. Vernon – The BC Liberal government has just revealed that it knew about a very serious security breach involving allegedly stolen information from 1,400 British Columbians on income assistance, but did nothing to notify those people to protect their personal information. It was the RCMP who found missing documents inside of a Victoria home of a government worker last April, and those documents were handed to the BC Liberals in May. Yet it was not until seven months later that the victims were informed. “I wish I could say I’m surprised,” remarked BC Conservative Party Director and former candidate for Vernon-Monashee, Dean Skoreyko. “Unfortunately for the people of British Columbia, this is the modus operandi of this government.” (continue reading here) Also: see previous post here |
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BC Liberal government knew of personal security breach 7 months
prior November 25, 2009 — BC Blue The RCMP gave the files on 1,400 income assistant clients found in a government worker’s apartment to the BC Liberal government back in May but the minister Ben Stewart says he was only informed about it “2 or 3 weeks ago” and defends not telling all the people affected until last week. (see story here) My questions are: 1) who didn’t pass this information to him and have those people been fired 2) did he receive this information and suppressed it during the May election? Either way this minister should resign as he either has no control of his ministry or he willfully put 1,400 people’s credit history and ID theft threat behind his burning desire to get re-elected? |
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MINISTER SHOULD RESIGN OVER MISSING DOCUMENTS Conservativesbc.com - November 26, 2009 Vernon - The BC Liberal government has just revealed that it knew about a very serious security breach involving allegedly stolen information from 1,400 British Columbians on income assistance, but did nothing to notify those people to protect their personal information. It was the RCMP who found missing documents inside of a Victoria home of a government worker last April, and those documents were handed to the BC Liberals in May. Yet it was not until seven months later that the victims were informed. "I wish I could say I'm surprised," remarked BC Conservative Party Director and former candidate for Vernon-Monashee, Dean Skoreyko. "Unfortunately for the people of British Columbia, this is the modus operandi of this government." Skoreyko said it's reminiscent of the recent allegations surrounding former Liberal assistant deputy health minister Ron Danderfer of corruption and bribery. These revelations only came to light when members of the media looked at an RCMP investigation into it. It raises two very serious questions: 1) has the person(s) responsible in his department who failed to reveal this information been fired? 2) did the Liberals know about this before the May election, and did they sit on the information in order to seek reelection? The minister now handling the file, Ben Stewart for Westside-Kelowna, says that he "may" have found out about it only two weeks ago. "That doesn't change the fact that this government hasn't been held to account on its own actions," said Skoreyko. "Was this Liberal government trying to escape responsibility for losing sensitive and personal information about the residents of this province," said Skoreyko. The BC Conservative Party finds it offensive that the government did not notify those affected by the security breach in a timely manner and call for the resignation of the minister for his handling of the case. Dean Skoreyko 250.494.8225 deanskoreyko "at" gmail.com |
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