The crux of the matter Here in BC, government has a long history of marching ahead boldly with " action plans", grandiose schemes, flashy advertisements.... and pretty much all for naught. When anyone takes time to pick away at the schemes and presentations, like an onion the core is eventually revealed and more often than not, it's just a rotten smelly mess. The Liberals have, since first elected, systematically stripped, degraded and otherwise mismanaged every single core ministry in this province and that is in-arguable. I have spent considerable time documenting all of it in the 100 reasons the BC Liberals must go. Court services closed, legal services cut, mental health services degraded and cut, health care expansions widely hailed and lauded... without staff to complement new facilities. In Surrey, when the Jimmy Pattison centre opened, it was like a ghost town. Why? Not enough staff to operate in a fully functional manner. Why? There was a shortage of qualified staff. What did they do? Steal staff from Surrey Memorial and move them to Jimmy Pattison up the street, leaving suddenly cancelled surgeries and longer wait times at SMH. Wow, what a solution. That we are, for so many reasons, at a very crucial juncture in the history and future of this province. Environmentally, financially, socially.. so much of where we go and what we leave for our children, and our grandchildren, hinges on the next election. This is crux of the matter. This is why, examining every party, every