Our Platform...

PARTY PLATFORM
BC Provincial Election - May 12, 2009

10 POINT PLATFORM
 

1. HEALTH CARE

	Implement Performance-Based Health Care Solutions
	Allow More Competitive Delivery Options Within a Publicly - Funded Health Care System

2. ABORIGINAL LAND CLAIMS

Oppose Aboriginal Title in the Recognition and Reconciliation Bill

3. THE ENVIRONMENT

	Eliminate the Carbon Tax
	Maintain Control of Our Lakes and Rivers

4. THE ECONOMY

	Reduce Regulation and Taxes to Stimulate Business and Create Jobs
	Expand Resource Development

5. TAXATION

	Reduce the PST by 1 percent in 2009
	Make the BC PST More Investment-Friendly
	Lower Personal and Corporate Income Taxes
	Eliminate the BC Property Transfer Tax
	Eliminate Excessive Salaries Awarded to Government Employees and MLAs

6. EDUCATION

	Provide Education Funding Based on an Equal Per-Student Funding Formula Payable to the School of Choice
	Repeal the Corren Agreement and Restore the Principle of Parental Rights in the Education System for BC Children
	Provide Tuition Assistance for All Qualifying Post Secondary Students

7. INFRASTRUCTURE

	Initiate Equalized Province-Wide Infrastructure Funding
	Eliminate Discriminatory Tolls

8. CRIME and JUSTICE

	Reform the Justice System and Enhance Personal Security
	Address Crime Where Crime Begins
	Create and Publish a Criminal Offenders Registry
	Revamp the BC Human Rights Tribunal
	Reform Statute Law for both ICBC and Work Safe BC, and Create Understandable and Accessible Appeal Processes Within the Courts for Both

9. GOOD GOVERNMENT

	Provide MLAs with the Right to a Free Vote in the Legislature
	Implement a Preferential Ballot Electoral Voting System
	Implement Elections for BC Federal Senators

10. FREEDOM of SPEECH

Completely Repeal the Gag Law

Background:
We have heard from growing numbers of British Columbia voters who are unhappy with the BC Liberal Government and their record of scandal and incompetent management. Examples include the BC Rail scandal, the Tree Farm License scandal, the ICBC scandal, the Gag Law and most recently the Recognition and Reconciliation Bill.

There is growing concern over apparent misleading statements regarding the 2010 Olympics. Some estimates now place the total cost of the 2010 Olympics at $5.7 billion and the impending deficit as high as $2billion. It is embarrassing to have a provincial government that wants to mislead our citizens to the degree that they  eliberately fudge the 2009 provincial budget including the placement of operating costs in capital projects to hide the true cost of Olympics. This is shameful and further undermines the public trust in the political structure.

It is clear that the 2009 Liberal provincial budget is grossly misleading. BC Liberals are now touring the province announcing funding initiatives principally made possible with federal dollars and touting them as their own. Now that the BC Liberals have abandoned their conservative partners and taken a dramatic shift to the left with the introduction of the carbon tax, big pay raises for high level civil servants and the gag law, many voters are telling us they are tired of the incompetent and “ethically challenged” Liberals and our voters are looking for CHANGE.

Those voters also recall the NDP as having a similar record with poor economic and political mismanagement. When they look at the “fiscally challenged” NDP, many realize that they trust them even less than the Liberals to manage the economy of British Columbia. The Green party remains an extreme left single issue party.

The voters tell us they are looking for a viable alternative to the Liberals the Green and the NDP. YOU DO HAVE A CHOICE. The BC Conservative Party can, and will, provide CHANGE YOU CAN TRUST... and YOU CAN BE A PART OF IT.

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Many policies are required to run a province efficiently and effectively. We believe in small government, low taxes, strong families and we look first to the free market economy for solutions rather than expecting government to solve all problems. We believe in equal opportunities rather than forcing equal outcomes.

During this election campaign, we will highlight policies to help move this province forward with a goal of Improved Quality of Life.

Authorized by Lis Quinn, Financial Agent, 250-992-1285

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