The HST, despite a 77 per cent voter disapproval rate has now been inflicted on us. With a stroke of Campbell's pen, big business gets richer while Statistics Canada reports that the average household will be $521 per year poorer. Add the latest increase in the carbon tax and the hits just keep coming. The Liberal government may not be cheap, but it is convenient, for business.
Big business can happily go to sleep counting the shorn sheep (aka taxpayer) jump the fence. Their only concern these days is finding a bed big enough to withstand the combined weight of Campbell and his parrots joining them.
Though I do have to say B.C.'s political landscape has achieved some clarity. Since the entire Liberal government, en masse, has stumbled out of the closet and exposed themselves as representatives of big business we do know with certainty where they stand. For a "democratic" government to unanimously vote against the people's wishes must be some sort of precedent. It sounds more like an autocracy or dictatorship.
The B.C. government is even giving organized crime some competition these days. They are involved in extortion (HST) and gambling (both online and off). I don't know what one would call the fact that they have sold themselves to business.
Despite appearances in British Columbia, the government is employed by the people. We need to take a lesson from business when employees won't take instruction, fire them.
What Jonathan Mayhew said in the 1700s is just as true today as it was then. "No Taxation Without Representation"
Richard Blake
Vanderhoof
