You still don’t get it people! The Conservatives are the federal government and the Liberals could very well be the next one… the North Coast languishes because it has no real representation in Ottawa besides an opposition mla from a remote corner of Canada. Believe me, The north coast of BC might as well be in Siberia which is probably closer to Prince Rupert than Ottawa. The NDP was opposed to the sale of BCRAIL —that sale is the reason the Container Port exists…You are putting your support behind a lame duck MLA again.
The city of Prince Rupert will never reach its full potential at this rate. Don’t complain about being left out in the cold way out here in BC…you brought it on yourselves.
Good luck and full speed ahead.
[quote=“dolly”]You still don’t get it people! The Conservatives are the federal government and the Liberals could very well be the next one… the North Coast languishes because it has no real representation in Ottawa besides an opposition mla from a remote corner of Canada. Believe me, The north coast of BC might as well be in Siberia which is probably closer to Prince Rupert than Ottawa. The NDP was opposed to the sale of BCRAIL —that sale is the reason the Container Port exists…You are putting your support behind a lame duck MLA again.
The city of Prince Rupert will never reach its full potential at this rate. Don’t complain about being left out in the cold way out here in BC…you brought it on yourselves.
Good luck and full speed ahead.[/quote]
Er, uh, ah, federally we elect MP’s not MLA’s, you’re confusing the two issues and the two representatives it seems.
While you might have a point about not supporting a member of the would be governing party, it might be helpful to the exercise to know the difference between provincial and federal representatives don’t you think?
Proving a point is always a problem when your credibility is a tad lacking.
We won’t have the opportunity to decide the fate of the “lame duck MLA” until later in the year and any provincial election.
[quote=“dolly”]You still don’t get it people! The Conservatives are the federal government and the Liberals could very well be the next one… the North Coast languishes because it has no real representation in Ottawa besides an opposition mla from a remote corner of Canada. Believe me, The north coast of BC might as well be in Siberia which is probably closer to Prince Rupert than Ottawa. The NDP was opposed to the sale of BCRAIL —that sale is the reason the Container Port exists…You are putting your support behind a lame duck MLA again.
The city of Prince Rupert will never reach its full potential at this rate. Don’t complain about being left out in the cold way out here in BC…you brought it on yourselves.
Good luck and full speed ahead.[/quote]
Although the idea of ‘having an MP from a riding who’s party is governing the country’ is an ideal situation, this doesn’t mean that economic growth for that same riding comes to a stand still. If this was the case, our riding and countless others across the country would be lame ducks. The feather in PR’s cap is the fact that we are a port city. This, alone, puts a blip on the radar back East.
The organized labor pools that come with living in a port city are many. Teachers, nurses, shore workers, cannery workers, city employees, Ridley Terminal and the Grain Elevator workers are all nestled in our small town. I don’t see a change coming soon.
Yeah look how well having a Tory MP helped adjacent ridings! Vanderhoof actually looks like Hooterville these days. Empty boarded up buildings if you go a block deep. Even the train station is gone, they dump you in the snow and there isn’t even a pathway left or an overhead light or sign to see where you’re supposed to go.
Toss in Liberal MLAs and the area’s existed entirely on grant & retraining money for years. The mult-million $ revitalization project made all those boarded up places look prettier, it’s the gold mine making everything work here now.
Which brings me to my next question, do you actually believe Harper had dick shit to do with ‘the economy’ ? Business runs the economy! If you believe the gov’t even should then you’re a socialist by definition. You think they’re gonna leave billions of dollars of gold in the ground because their tax rate didn’t go down 2%?
Bill Belsey presided over the biggest economic decline in Prince Rupert’s history. He was a part of the sitting government. Instead of representing Prince Rupert in Victoria, he was essentially representing Victoria in Prince Rupert. ie: making excuses.
So whenever someone tells you that you need to vote a government member in, just say “Bill Belsey” and you win the argument.
You can blame it on the present and previous incarnation of the Prince Rupert City Council for our town’s current woes.
Also, the Conservative/Canadian Alliance/Reform Party in the past have proven to be very useless here in our riding before we went orange. Although I have voted Liberal in other ridings, I always prefer Nathan Cullen to continue to be an MP for Skeena-Bulkley Valley. He’s the better guy for the job.