Earlier this year the NDP denied the province was in a recession. In order to fast track the Skytrain project in Vancouver they have chosen to ignore the environmental impact studies required by the very laws they passed only a few years ago. Similarly, for approval of a resort ranch development, they have chosen to ignore the existence of the Agricultural Land Reserve, until then the prize piece of legislation in the NDP's provincial history. Today, the NDP is thinking of pursuing lawsuits against tobacco companies while collecting tens of millions of dollars from cigarette sales. The reality in BC is sadly very clear.
Government is a way of life here.
BC has entered into a sort of state of feudalism, separate and distinct from the people, like lords to tenants. And like lords to tenants, government is law and government is reality. People here cannot imagine living without it any more than a medieval tenant could imagine voting. Earlier in the day, at the knowledge and technology forum Mr. Hunter chaired, speakers representing the high-tech industry asked the government for an education system that would produce the engineers they needed to plug into their companies. Indirectly they were asking the government for another parade of citizens trained to accept that this is the extent of civilized society, that humans can be organized in no better way.