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Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Apr 11th, 2016
Important events don’t always seem to be so. So it is with the changes last month in both the Green party and the NDP. Going back, say a fortnight, the ruling Liberals were unpopular as hell, led by an airhead who likes to have her picture taken and ride in airplanes. Despite that, I would […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Mar 8th, 2016
Dear John Horgan, I hate to say this, but I told you so, and the flock of chickens I promised have now come home to roost. Many months ago I took you to task for supporting LNG without reservation. I told you that by doing this you had prevented your party from questioning each and […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Jan 3rd, 2016
This is the time of year and the point in the government’s mandate that analysis of the months to come is de rigeur. Time will demonstrate that Christy Clark’s big mistake, when assuming the premiership, was not nullifying Gordon Campbell’s Energy Program which has, predictably, enriched large international corporations and bankrupted BC Hydro. Had Clark […]
Posted in General on Jan 2nd, 2016
I wish you all the very best for 2016 – may you have sufficient wealth and 100% good health. Some political predictions for the coming year: There will be moves to replace both Christy Clark and John Horgan, neither of which will succeed. In the case of Clark there is no obvious heir nor any […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Nov 23rd, 2015
I suggest that everyone listen to this immediately – it is John Horgan, leader of the BC NDP, promising to shut down Site C and make up the energy difference through conservation, wind and solar power (listen here yourself to his CBC Daybreak North interview from Monday morning). Site C is something that never should […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Nov 16th, 2015
Political pundits are busy analyzing the recent NDP convention and I can tell you it’s easier to interpret the entrails of a rooster. Conventions organized to look like sunny expressions of the party’s solidarity and readiness for an election usually disguise more than they reveal. What this NDP clambake tells me is that the party […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Dec 23rd, 2014
I’ve been very critical, especially recently in the tyee.ca, of John Horgan, leader of the NDP, and the Official Opposition itself. This is, I assure you, nothing personal but is entirely a matter of the quality of the opposition presented and the effect it has on forming public opinion. Socred praise for Barrett NDP A […]
Posted in The Tyee on Dec 22nd, 2014
Betting on mirage jobs, NDP leader downplays huge risks to citizens and nature. Dear B.C. New Democrat leader John Horgan, The reader response to my last article criticizing your support of the Liberal government’s LNG policy was substantial, and to be blunt, you didn’t fare well. Clearly, you and I don’t agree on this one […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Dec 6th, 2014
I suppose it’s not unusual for an electorate to feel swindled. It sure as hell happens often enough. The BC electorate has every right to feel swindled in the election of 2013 by the Christy Clark government’s solemn promise to make us all wealthy through LNG plants. This was a very specific promise and even […]
Posted in The Common Sense Canadian on Jun 12th, 2013
Ok, John Horgan (BC NDP Energy critic), now I’m pissed off. You were quoted in the Vancouver Sun this week as saying you’re unhappy that the NDP lost, etc, weep, sob. Here it is in plain, unadorned English: I TOLD YOU SO! In fact, my advice to you and your party has been constant and goes back […]
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