Seems to me.....

Robert Mcdonald is scared,why such a vile speech if the NDP are truly 14 points behind and the people believe Gordon Campbell is the great manager?

I will say it again,goverment and political hacks don`t shoot dead ducks,Campbell is scared because he and Mcdonald know the real poll numbers.

NDP 49%

Liberals 34%

Conservatives 6%

Green 5%

undecided 6%

"Both Audain and Bains

"Both Audain and Bains expressed strong support for a multi-billion-dollar housing stimulus package in next week’s federal budget; neither used the word "Marxist" in their remarks."

Oh please, when will those robber barrons finally admit that they could never 'go it alone'.

They are the first ones always in line for the latest handout of free land, relaxed rules, favoratism and corporate welfare (you know, socialism).

corrupted hypocrites make me want to puke

Such delightful comments

...from a delightful man, that Rob Macdonald. Clearly a man of his word.

http://www.savesaltspring.com/tex.html

Here's his statement from the 2007 version of the same UDI event.

Macdonald echoed his claim of a year ago that B.C. will go through an unprecedented "golden decade.

But he added municipal governments, which control land use, pose the biggest risk to developers because they are "attacking and undermining" the industry through their opposition to developments.
http://www.businessedge.ca/article.cfm/newsID/14520.cfm

Half those "professionals" won't be around in a year, no matter who is at the helm of the province. They'll be broke. But it's unlikely that MacDonald will be broke, having been given the gift of a major highway upgrade right past his front door in Brittania Beach.

Sometimes it pays to purchase your very own politician.

Rhetoric...

Lol, I almost fell outta my chair reading that. The first thing that came to my mind was Vancouver mayor Tom "Terrific" Campbell's infamous quote from circa 1972, when he referred to hippy protesters as:

BTW, do any hamburgers post here??? :)

Rob's speech was certainly quite heavy on the rhetoric. One would expect same from the BC Fed's Jim Sinclair but Rob is Rob.

And the UDI crowd is comprised of a good chunk of moderate folk, not the ideological crowd. Even then:

Rob is one of the best in the biz and knows his stuff. Even Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson and his NDP muni-farm team, Vision Vancouver, have selected the UDI inclusive of Rob to oversee the Olympic Village matter. Politics certainly makes for strange bedfellows. ;)

http://www.francesbula.com/?p=1013

Political prognosticator and Mayor Robertson supporter Alex Tsakumis also had this to say about those UDI appointments:

As for Rob's anti-NDP rhetoric, it doesn't matter in any event. With the recent Mustel poll showing:

Lib - 47%
NDP - 33%
Grn - 16%

...as well as James relatively poor approval ratings vis-a-vis those of Campbell's ... the tea leaves have apparently already been set in place.

Mr MacDonald is still

Mr MacDonald is still fighting the cold war. How old is this guy? This dated political argument fell on deaf ears when John McCain was desperate and had nothing better to toss out.
Sadly the same vacuous prose dominates the mainstream media in B.C.

you decide

"If you make political discourse sufficiently negative, more people will become cynical and stop paying attention. That leaves more space for special interests to pursue their agendas, and that's how we end up with drug companies making drug policy, energy companies making energy policy and multinationals making trade policy."
And Urban Development Institute = real estate professionals/companies ...

Need I say more.

Gordon Campbell has made many mistakes

Gordon Campbell has made many mistakes, and there's many things I'd like to slap him across the face for... in fact, I'd like to put the boots to whoever sold BC Rail and BC Gas... but IMO Carole James severely lacks the skills (in several areas) to sucessfully navigate this province... Carole James aint no Gregor Robertson, not even close... IMO Carole James has about 50% of the brain power of Gregor Robertson.

Thank you Rob

What a relief! It's not just me. I've always considered myself to be left leaning but when I came to BC I thought I'd stumbled into a time warp. 1930s-type lefties were easily found fighting the same old battles and class wars that I hadn't heard about for decades. Such levels of intolerance, envy and distaste for success seemed strangely self-destructive in such a wealthy society that is also lavished in social benefits. How could these people be so negative when by all measures they are unquestionably one of the luckiest and richest society on earth?

Tell it to almost 25% of the BC children

Who live their lives in poverty.

A statistic which hasn't improved during the same period that Campbell ran total provincial debt to over 50 billions.

The folks who're rich and lucky and happen to be Gordon's friends do very nicely - the rest of society - say 80% are losing ground or treading water in the same period.

What do you expect now that the economy is sinking like the Queen of North.

Campbell has run the ship of state aground on Gil Island - which is what happens when you have a narcissistic drunk at the wheel.

Marxists, Leninists, Trotskyites, Maoists and Castroites?

Er... No. People of this persuasion are most definitely not in positions of power in the BC NDP. I've known some such people. They are the sort who protest NDP events on the grounds that the party is "pro-imperialist".

This fella McDonald is the

This fella McDonald is the 1st of many who will be coming out of the wood work in the next couple of months with the message that "liberal good" and "NDP bad" message. Can hardly wait for Michael Campbell's spin on things and be a featured talking head on Global/CKNW network. Bill Good has already done some discussions with twiddle dum and twiddle dee. (Palmer and Baldry)

Loved the article.

Oh yeah some guy whose worth $100 million talks trash and I should believe him? He has the best interests of an average person in mind? Sounds like he has "a few kangaroos loose in the upper paddock". I guess Wilf and Bobby won't be whining here as they finally have an item they can agree with.

Puh - leeze.....

"Or is the greater danger the possible four-year election of a provincial political party, controlled in part by people who have drunk the Kool Aid laced with the cyanide of socialism?”

Kool Aid laced with the cyanide of socialism? Is this guy for real? How much more offensive could you get?

You're right all. Most people's eyes glaze over when hearing this kind of crap. Good for us and a concrete sign of fear that the "glory days" are rapidly coming to an end for Gordo and his gang.

what a great speech by mr.

what a great speech by mr. macdonald. a little extreme maybe, don't really think there are any trotskyites.

Here we had what's been the

Here we had what's been the biggest boom for the economy. What have the lieberals left us? The biggest deficit in history. And they bitched about the NDP who left a surplus. What happened to all the $$$? I guess after you pay off the P3 contracts, privatization contracts, and the list goes on, along with the 40%+ wage increases to the bunch, as well as that 2 week party, things are going to get pretty tough.
And what do they want? ... a multi-billion-dollar housing stimulus package in next week’s federal budget; neither used the word "Marxist" in their remarks.

Yeah, governments can bail out business, and tough sh__ for the little guy. We, the lower/middle class need to take control of our governments.

We need an Obama in Canada.

ONLY IN BC

Only in BC would a speech as silly as MacDonald's be offered up at a trade association conference, and only in BC would it be considered newsworthy, and only in BC would it generate a long thread of comments.

Oops, ... I am making the mistake of adding to that last problem myself! I guess whatever's in the local drinking water affects us all.

curt

Lots of little guys here:

"What your B.C. Government is doing for the Public Sector:

* In 2005, your B.C. government launched a new innovative negotiating framework that offered $5.7 billion through 2009/10, which included $1 billion for signing by March 31 2006.
* As a result, the Province reached 166 negotiated settlements representing 320,000 employees – or 99 per cent of the public service.
* This included the first ever negotiated settlement between the B.C. government and the BC Teachers' Federation.
* Agreements in place now will ensure public sector labour peace through the 2010 Olympics.
* B.C.'s public service is now on average the third-highest paid in the country."

labour Peace, brother.

Realisticman...

And we all know how much Gordo and his gang respect public service negotiated agreements, don't we?

Labour peace, brother?

Macdonald accused past NDP

Macdonald accused past NDP governments of “destroying the economic welfare of our province as a whole, and destroying the lives of decent, hard-working union and non-union people in the private sectors of this province.”

The Golden Decade:

 Closed 1279 hospital beds 2002-2004
 Increased wait times by 30% on average since 2001
 Reduced home support services (cleaning, laundry and shopping) to
5600 residents requiring assistance in their homes.
 Increased Pharmacare costs for 420,000 seniors.
 Cut 17 drugs from Pharmacare.
 Increased MSP premiums by 50%.
 Cut over $200 million from programs for children and families under
the Ministry of Children and Family Development.
 Eliminated the independent offices of the Child, Youth and
Family Advocates.
 Eliminated the independent office of Mental Health Advocate.
 Cut $50 million from child care.
 Broke contracts with health science professionals, nurses, health
support workers and community social service workers legislated away key job protection rights previously provided under the Labour Relations Code to health care workers and community social service workers.
 Cancelled a negotiated $2.5 million wage increase for community
social service workers, and then rolled back their wages by a further $40 million.
 Rolled back wages of hospital support workers by 15%.
 Fired 8,000 hospital workers (87% of hospital workers in B.C. are
women).
 Privatized laundry, food, cleaning and other hospital services.
 Privatization resulted in wages being cut to $9.50 to $11.00 an hour
with few benefits.
 Reduced minimum wage from $8 to $6 an hour for new workers.
 Cut 550 staff at Workers' Compensation Board.
 Deleted one third of staff at the Employment Standards Branch.
 Closed 113 schools.
 Deleted 2,500 teachers (350 teachers because of declining enrolment;
the rest because of government cuts).
 Broke contract with teachers.
 Increased college and university tuition fees by 104%.
 Cut training and apprenticeship programs.
 Cut 1,200 staff between 2001 and 2004 from the 2 main ministries
dealing with the environment; Ministry of Water, Land and Air Protection, and the Ministry of Forests.
 Cut regulations protecting the quality of drinking water.
 Cut spending on wildlife protection and law enforcement to the lowest in 20 years.
 Introduced parking fees in provincial parks, reduced provincial park
attendance by 25%
 Privatized one third of BC Hydro to Accenture, a Bermuda based company.
 Privatized B.C. Ferries, ferry fares increased.
 Increased ICBC rates by an average 18.6% over the last 4 years.
 Increased drivers' license fees.
 Increased parks, hunting and fishing fees.
 Cut taxes by $2.2 billion - the biggest benefit going to business and
the wealthiest.
 Continues to close long term care beds.

Not the lieberals

Now I've heard on that bastion of free enterprise NW that this is not the lieberals fault. It is the fault of the left that we are experiencing this downturn. Why on weekends and nightly at 5:24 we hear that it is always the lefts fault. No bias there.Then I hear that it is the Unions fault GM does't take the bailout. Course the managers are never at fault just the workers. This rush to develop that Campbell has encouraged had to break sometime and it will be the taxpayer left holding the bag not the developers.