The debate on Bill 9, also known as the HST legislation is soon to come to an end. The Liberals will soon hold the final vote on the act on Thursday allowing the law to come into effect on May 1st. No, the HST is not going into effect in under a week, but purchased made before hand to be delivered on or after July 1st will be charged HST. This rant though isn't about the HST (shocking I know), this is about why they are speeding up this whole process.
Mike de Jong stated earlier this week that the elected representatives of this province must get to work on more important issues. Just think about that for a moment. Everything that this government has done since the 2009 election has been controversial, and really quite regressive as far as effectiveness. Funding cuts to education, health care, and even families with autistic children. What's next? Will it be corporate votes? Will it be the disestablishment of BC Rail? Or something else that wasn't included in the Liberals platform?
The point of this is I'm scared for my province. Eight years of Campbell tyranny was bad enough, but just in this past year, they have used every dirty trick in the book. We must do whatever is necessary to either get the Liberals back on Common Sense Crescent, or better yet throw them out of their desk in the Legislature via a recall petition or face the possibility of a 20th century British Columbia, again...
I am willing to admit that there have been some solid pieces of legislation that have come from the 39th Parliament. To be fair, the Liberals haven't put out terrible pieces of legislation, but the stuff that is acceptable isn't earth shattering, and is easily overshadowed by a certain Finance Ministers lies.
If getting on to "more important business" includes things like the Motor Vehicle Amendment Act, or the Zero Net Deforestation Act then all should be fine. If however, we start to see some bills calling for the privatization of BC Hydro or ICBC, I think a coup is in order.
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