Gordo's gone!!!

if the NDP is bad, and the Liberals are bad, and the Conservatives suck who is there left….vote Green in and see what happens, or the Marijuana Party…..

I heard something on CBC last week (or maybe the week before) that said something to the effect that during polling the green party was more popular than the liberals and NDP… but when the pollers asked the respondents if they knew who the leader of the green party actually was, nearly all of them had no idea.

(i cant find a reference for that)

I would say it is a considerable contributor. As Jah, shit I mean Usul, said many people work Alberta and live BC. I am one of them.

I spend lots of money in BC, money I sure as hell would not have if I worked in BC. I invest in Canadian companies, including some BC companies-- bringing money into the BC economy.

Furthermore, the oil sands have many spin off industries that are not necessarily noticed by the average person. The other day I was prepping up a pipe spool fabricated by Ideal Welders based on Annacis Island- likely driven here by a BC truck driver. I'm willing to bet their largest customers are oil sands companies in Alberta. Oil sands jobs based in Vancouver… who would have thunk it.

I am not blind to it by any means. Our company has sold a lot of products for the oil sands and pipe lines, but in the grand scheme of things it was a small portion of our business. In the past 10 years BC has built all the stuff for the Olympics, the Sea to Sky, the convention centre, the expansion of the port, the expansion of YVR, most of the downtown high rise condos, quite a few high rise office towers, expansions to all of the universities, major hospital expansions, etc. And that is just construction in the lower mainland.

So I am sure it is a factor, I just haven't seen any data on how big of one.

hahaha, live 5 minutes from work, suckers!

hahaha, I work at home in my underwear, sucker :)

hahaha, I work at home in my underwear, sucker :)

Are you a prostitute?

hahaha, I work at home in my underwear, sucker :)

I undersuck my workwear, homer.

Are you a prostitute?

Hahaha, good one. Wouldn't that mean I'd have to remove it?

Actually it's a bit chilly these days, so I'm dressed warm.

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The ndp has proven that even when they have a decent leader they have no business running a province and for some reason have stuck with Carole James who, now that gordo is gone has NO platform. Literally I don't know if she has said anything in the past year that has been anything other than anti Campbell which is preaching to the coverted

Gee, sound alot like what a certain federal parties playbook sounds like.

The only reason people will vote the NDP back in is because they will think "Who else would I vote for and I don't want to waste my vote".

Harpers been doing the same reasonably well, so Im not too concerned with the Feds right now.

wtf have you been smoking? we're posting massive defficits and our finance minister hasn't made a single correct prediction in years…

As long as Kevin Falcon isnt the man, I'll be semi happy.

Unless Mr. Falcons actually qualified for the positions of Health Minister one term and now Transportation another. Privatizing fascist asshat.

Thanks to him and the liberals, doctors are getting paid well now, and actually don't have to work for free any more. Its all how you look at it I suppose.

good call Wayne.
I like Falcon for giving us new bridges, highways, overpasses, and now a "hopefully" more stable medical system in the province. It's great in so many ways, but needs a lot of work in others.

He's the man to do it.

Thanks to him and the liberals, doctors are getting paid well now, and actually don't have to work for free any more. Its all how you look at it I suppose.

Good for the doctors, but sometimes I miss the good old days when I would see the docs in the line ups for the soup kitchens and food banks.

Good for the doctors, but sometimes I miss the good old days when I would see the docs in the line ups for the soup kitchens and food banks.

hahahaha….. good one.

No I mean take this for example…. my wife just delivered a baby. She went in to the hospital yesterday at about 7am, was there all day and partially into the night, got home at 1:30am. She's back there now for another 6ish hours. Right now its about $1000/delivery. A few years ago it was $500. If it were a quick in and out it was ok, but if her lady is in labour for a couple of days it hardly seems worth the hassle for only $500. Now its actually pretty good.

There was a time when none of the hospital visits, paperwork, follow up, rounds, referral letters, being on call for a weekend, etc were not paid for. On top of that no benefits and you have to pay overhead, MOA's, etc. That's a separate issue though. Could you imagine not getting paid for all this extra work that is required for you to do? Kinda silly yea? This stuff takes up several hours per day, unpaid.

But now all this extra work (besides charts) is paid for by the province. Years ago, family docs were trying to be phased out by the provincial government. Now they are realizing that paying family docs and trying to have more of them actually leads to less $$$ on the medical system overall. They are paying doctors all over the province for meetings in which the goal is to find better ways to deliver patient care and make the medical system run more efficiently.

Thank you liberal government.

There was a time when none of the hospital visits, paperwork, follow up, rounds, referral letters, being on call for a weekend, etc were not paid for. On top of that no benefits and you have to pay overhead, MOA's, etc. That's a separate issue though. Could you imagine not getting paid for all this extra work that is required for you to do? Kinda silly yea? This stuff takes up several hours per day, unpaid.

Good thing the provincial government stepped up and did this for small business owners/entpreneurs trying to make a go at it too….. oh wait.

Good thing the provincial government stepped up and did this for small business owners/entpreneurs trying to make a go at it too….. oh wait.

Because universal health care is a right while running a small business is not.