Whether it is good or bad, nothing can make this man happy. The man was promoted to a key ministry as minister by Glen Clark at the the same time that Glen Clark was involved with a friend about applying for a casino licence. Told Mike Farnworth, that if he screwed up, he would be fired. Farnworth went to Chief of Staff, Adrian Dix, to discuss over the situation and thought something sounded fishy. Was told by Dix, it pays to know people in high places, and don't worry, just do as Clark says. Farnworth did give approval to the licence, later saying in court that he would have not given approval knowing the circumstances behind the North Burnaby Inn. Here we have a cabinet minister, now a opposition critic today, always blowing a gasket saying that B.C. Liberals never produce a business plan on their decisions. Farnworth, sure did not do any background checks on the North Burnaby Inn, but yet gives a licence. Don't preach if you don't practice it. I guess he listens to the pope. The pope talks about birth control but never practices it.

Joe. Most of these NDP faithful don't really know what the NDP stand for. Do you think they ever ask themselves why the only province in Canada to have an NDP government is about to give them the boot.
BC has one of the lowest tax rates in Canada. That will change under NDP.
The last time the NDP were in power contractors didn't get Gov't. Jobs if they weren't unionized. How fair is that. The NDP are all about unions. It will be Jim Sinclair running this province.

TonyB
There was an article on this blog with a link to a site from the Nova Scotia Gov't. It had all the provinces listed and the prices of gas etc. And the various taxes. I am here to tell you my friend that BC was the lowest or the second lowest in Canada. It is fine to Rattle on about all the taxes we pay but are we over taxed compared to other provinces. I don't think so.
Having said that I am not happy about all these taxes we pay either. But I can tell you one thing for certain. Under the NDP we will be paying considerably more. They are the tax and spend party. That is what they do. Drive business away and cater to the unions. A leopard doesn't change his spots.
Why should Jim Sinclair have anything to say about running this province. Was he ever elected in provincial elections. Next you will say to give Susan Lambert her way and haqve her sit in on decision making which is what she wants.

People that live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. Historically for the short time the NDP have been in power they have had more corruption than the Liberals. If you are going to hang Christie for all of Campbells misdeeds then please let's hang Dix for his predessor follies and his own corruption. He is the one who had to resign from Gov't.

The NDP is in the same classification as the "Soprano's" and the "Corleone's". Some of the past and current NDP MLA's that have run into trouble are Adrian Dix, MIke Farnworth, Glen Clark, Robert Strachen, Elizabeth Cull, Andrew Petter, Dave Stupich, Dave Zirnhelt, Carole James, Ujjal Dosanjh, Mike Harcourt, Bob Williams, Moe Sihota, Dave Barrett, Joy MacPhail, and Graham Lea. All of their blunders and scandals cost the taxpayers of B.C. a lot of money. The baggage is just too great to take a chance on. If you are willing to vote them in, then also take back your former spouse from a previous divorce to re-create the nightmare.

RoseH: You are very welcome.

A little NDP medicine in Manitoba. Unions supplied election workers for 13 NDP candidates. The NDP campaign office paid the respective union the regular daily salary each worker would normally earn. The unions then kicked back the exact same amount as a "donation" so that the actual cost to the NDP campaign was zero.
The campaign agents for each candidate listed the workers as unpaid help-donations in kind, which are not eligible for a legislated 50 percent subsidy from the province. But the paperwork was first sent to a central auditor. There, the official election expense statements of the 13 campaigns were altered so that the union workers were listed as paid help.
The altered documents were returned to the official agents, who, seeing no changes to the bottom lines, signed them and sent them in to Elections Manitoba. The trick was that now the NDP would be re-imbursed from the public purse for half the expense of the union help. The audit found this out and all monies was returned. Maybe this will happen next spring with the B.C. NDP when Adrian brings in Brian Topp as campaign manager. He has a record of whitewashing documents when he was chief of staff in the former NDP Saskatchewan government.

Adrian Dix is two faced. Adrian Dix criticizes the B.C. Liberal government for not mentioning about the HST in the 2009 B.C. provincial election campaign, yet Nova Scotians voted in their first NDP provincial government in 2009 and in the election campaign, the Nova Scotia NDP promised no tax increases. What happens? They increase the HST by 2%.
Adrian Dix criticizes the B.C. LIberal government about the online gambling, and yet in Manitoba, the NDP government is doing the same, as the NDP in Manitoba says it brings in additional revenue.
Adrian Dix criticizes over the possible sale of some government assets, while in Manitoba, the NDP government is doing the same. The BCTF takes sides with Adrian Dix and in Nova Scotia, the Nova Scotia teachers federation requests that the Minister of Education resign because of budget funding. Adrian Dix complains about B.C. Ferry CEO David Hahn being paid over one million dollars in renumeration, yet in Nova Scotia the NDP is paying Nova Scotia power CEO Rob Bennett the same. His last pay raise was 23%.
Adrian Dix complains about B.C. hydro rates which are the third lowest in Canada, yet in Nova Scotia power increases the rate by 6% making it the second highest rates in Canada for hydro. 1000kwh of hydro costs $82.71 in B.C. and $136.23 in Nova Scotia.
Adrian Dix says freezing government employee wages isn't fair, yet the NDP Nova Scotia and Manitoba NDP governments are doing the same. Adrian Dix says the B.C. minimum wage could be higher yet it is the highest in the ten provinces along with Ontario.
Adrian complained when B.C. once had a training $6.00 wage, for new wage earners, separate from the minimum, but in Nova Scotia, the NDP has two minimum pay rates, one for experienced workers, and one for nonexperienced workers, in other words a training wage.
The NDP is Manitoba does not recognize Family Day and Rembembrance Day as statutory holidays, and the NDP in Nova Scotia does not recognize Family Day, Victoria Day, Thanksgiving Day, or Remembrance Day as statutory holidays.
I believe Adrian Dix is presently barking up the wrong tree, when everything he complains about is done with provincial NDP governments in Manitoba and Nova Scotia, although NDP Nova Scotia are headed to official opposition status as taxpayers have completed having their brains examined. Adrian Dix has said a big NO! to the EnBridge pipeline, and yet his buddy, Jim SinClair is dead silent on Adrian's announcement.
Could the alliance between these two be diminishing as Jim SinClair does believe in job creation. It's now time Adrian, taxpayers were not born yesterday, start using one face only.
Would be interesting to find out what make of vehicle Jim SinClair drives. If it is foreign, then he can explain to us why he was against B.C. ferries being built in Germany and against raw log export.

HUGH F: Just facts and figures Hugh, something we have not heard from Adrian Dix. Lay all cards on the table. Why don't you, Hugh, take a chance and give us readers some anwers. Why would you not take back a former spouse from a previous divorce to re-create the nightmare and why are we supposed to vote in a NDP government that would be voted out in May. 2017. I have done my share of facts and figures. I would like an honest answer from you. Not an attack reply, just two good answers to the above questions.

HUGH F: Wrong again! Whoever wins will only have at the most a 10 seat majority over the other.

HUGHF: That's right about the donor lists. Those donor lists pay out mega dollars in pay cheques every second Friday to B.C. taxpayers. Jim SinClair and company do not.