I too, would like to see more independents. But we will have to pay our MP's and MLA's more money if we want them to represent us. The party system is very powerful in this country. With all the dumbed down left and right rhetoric. It would be really nice if more folks would educate them selves and vote. Anyone want to guess how many voters will show up in may to vote. My bet is under 60%.

When cornered by the facts and a light shone on it, only then can they do the right thing. Economic treason isn't a matter of left and right, it's a matter of respect for Canadian citizens.
Now lets find out which politicians were bought by the Chinese.

It is interesting to note that one of the cornerstones of the government's Jobs Plan has crumbled into coal dust. The other cornstone (shipbuilding) which was not of her making but she takes credit for it until it, too, could hit a reef. We do not know if the shipbuilding program will succeed. The results are too far in the future to assess today. Who knows? It might be like the F-35 project.

Mr. Bell told Bill Good that HD Mining did not mislead the BC government with its foreign worker plan. Many would agree with that statement because the provincial goverment and HD Mining were joined at the hip. And, the BC government was looking the other way so that it could claim that the Jobs Plan was working. But, no one was looking out for Canadian workers and immigrants.

Going forward, when our resources are being extracted, the companies should be required to assume more of the responsibility for training workers for their specific resource project. The companies should know and, in fact do and know what skills are required to extract oil, gas, minerals, coal or wood.

In fact, they know what skills are required even before they put a drill or shovel into the ground.

BC is having a hard enough time to train enough skilled workers to replace those workers who will retire or die in the next decade. Resource extraction will require additional skilled workers.

So, it makes sense to me that the resource extraction companies must also commit funds to help train skilled workers who are Canadians or immigrants..

I suspect no one has difficulty with efforts to bring work into Canada and possibly even some foreign workers provided it happens within the parameters of the law; I can see circumstances where a company wants to have certain workers oversee a project.

The problem here is with the transparency. Liberals would not find themselves in hot water, if they had been more honest, instead they obstructed efforts to get at the truth. Therein lies the problem.