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Many problems started under Campbell government It is laughable former premier Gordon Campbell making all the criticisms he has made of our progressive B.C. government.
He has a large circle of friends in the Greater Victoria area who would love to see him, but he is unable to leave Comox unless he has a medical appointment; visits to friends are excluded despite clear evidence that connecting with friends and maintaining relationships strengthens mental health. In rapidly growing urban areas like Surrey, we are struggling with a shortage of classrooms to accommodate students. We need more schools, not larger class sizes, to address this.
Living downtown we see how tourists sit on Government and a few blocks north it’s crickets by comparison in Lower Johnson or on side streets off Government. Ironically the success of closing Government to motor-vehicle traffic has caused areas around it, with cooler shops really, to suffer. The shopping gets dumbed down to just trinkets you can get in your suitcase, not what people need who live here. The restaurants get dumbed down and over-priced.
Buyers and renters will have more money to spend and will drive up the prices of the limited supply of homes. The policy will not make homes more affordable.Let’s end this plastic litter There is a deluge of plastics littering communities across the province. It would operate much like the provincial coroner. Independent of all governments, with powers to subpoena to investigate all cost overruns of public projects above a certain percentage — 15%?.Fernwood
George Herbert Mead once asserted that interest in the public good requires a certain measure of disinterest “in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up in.” These words seem resonant in B.C. today.
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