bctaxpayer: How so? 49% plus of the popular vote needed for NDP to win government.
Adrian Dix is going to have to explain the blunders that are happening in NDP Manitoba and NDP Nova Scotia.
He and his team will be hearing this question at every all candidates meeting during the election campaign.

NDP MANITOBA AND NDP NOVA SCOTIA EQUALS NDP ADRIAN DIX

Enjoy your retirement Minister Bell. It will be good for your heart and your soul.

Just like the bc taxpayer again getting the name wrong .WHO THE HELL IS JOHN it's pat bell jobs minister.maybe the bctaxpayer should buy some glasses before he goes to the ballet box!!!! Go LIBS Go!!!!!!

Somehow, my posts are disappearing.

While health concerns may have prompted Mr. Bell’s decision to leave politics in May, that may not be the entire story.

Mr. Bell must be terribly disappointed in the performance of the Jobs Plan. After taking credit for 40-50,000 jobs that were reported by the LFS in the month before the Jobs Plan was even announced, it has gone downhill ever since.

The HD Mining-Temporary Foreign Worker Program and the delusional throne speech which promised thousands of jobs and a $100 billion dollar Prosperity Fund were probably the last straws.

Mr. Bell probably is probably aware that Alberta stopped contributing resource revenue into the Alberta Heritage fund in 1987-only 10 years after inception. Aside from a $4 billion infusion of resource revenue in 1986-88, the total resource contribution to the fund has only totalled $16 billion over 30 years (where it stands today). Meanwhile, except for an inflation allowance, the Alberta government has drawn from the fund’s investment income an amount totalling nearly $36 billion into general revenue.

So, it is unfathomable that British Columbia can create a $100 billion fund over 30 years and yet pay off a growing debt that already stands at $56 billion. Additionally, taxpayers have an obligation to pay off nearly $100 billion in PPP contracts and IPP purchases. While these obligations are not debt in the true sense, the $100 billion is still payable by taxpayers in the form of user fees, tolls and rates. This huge obligation is an opportunity cost which means that money cannot be spent on anything else.

So, Mr. Bell may well have seen the light....perhaps....

It is noteworthy that Mr. Bell’s health concerns do not prevent him from engaging in partisan comments (audio vault-CKNW-this morning). So posters need not hesitate as long as their comments are reasonably respectful.

I wish Mr. Bell well-going forward. I met Mr. Bell at the Parliament Buildings last year and thanked him for his support in an unrelated matter.