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BC small business concerned about potential NDP win
VANCOUVER/CKNW (AM980)
Gord Macdonald | Email news tips to gmacdonald@cknw.com
9/18/2012

A new survey has found small business owners in BC are worried about the NDP winning next May's provincial election.


600 were questioned in the poll commissioned by the "Coalition of BC Businesses", and coalition chair Mark von Schellwitz says they are nervous.

"77 per-cent are pessimistic about hiring under a BC NDP government.  68 per-cent believe the NDP would increase challenges and barriers to doing business, and 56 percent actually said that they'd consider postponing a major expansion or investment decision until after an election, until we see where the NDP is headed."

He says his members want to know before the election what Dix plans to do.

He was speaking on the Bill Good Show on CKNW.

 

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  1. noparty posted on 09/18/2012 11:38 AM
    I think they are right to be wary. However the present Liberal govt. didn't always do what they said they would and sometimes did what they said they wouldn't Whatever the NDP says you can take with the same grain of salt. They will be no different----pander to those that got them elected.
  2. brianp1950 posted on 09/18/2012 12:43 PM
    Give me a break is this considered election spending? What are you afraid of having to pay your fair share? I know you think you guys are the only people that create jobs but have you ever considerd what has happened under this current group? every dollar they take out of my pocket is one less dollar I have to spend on whatever you are trying to sell me, you might have the greatest widget in the world but if no one can afford to buy it what difference does it make?
    1. Ron_26 posted on 09/18/2012 04:19 PM
      @brianp1950 Well, if you were unemployed, you'd have no dollars to spend. Quite a difference I'd say.
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  3. joes_2868 posted on 09/18/2012 01:07 PM
    Take a look around. The NDP is history in Saskatchewan. Before the election call in 2011, the offcial opposition party, the NDP had 20 seats. After the election they were still the official opposition with only 9 seats. Saskatewan does not even have one NDP federal seat. The NDP in Ontario is history in regards to importance. They are the third party like the Conservatives in B.C. The NDP party did win government in Nova Scotia in 2009 for the first time ever, however they are headed back to the official opposition in the upcoming provincial election, tying Dave Barrett and the NDP for one term wonders. The NDP did win re-election in Manitoba in October, 2011 but today voters are saying they would vote for the official opposition party, the Progressive Conservatives. If the NDP was to win the next B.C. election, it would be a one term wonder and would be voted out in 2017. They say coalition governments cater too much to business yet the NDP caters too much to the unions. B.C. is an investment province and investors usually don't invest in NDP territory and if already in business tend not to expand and layoff staff. One thing for sure is that if Adrian Dix becomes premier, a lot of B.C. taxpayers will be heading with their pink layoff slips to a employment insurance office to make a claim. From 1952 to 2013 terms of government, B.C. taxpayers have put coalition governments in for 48 years compared to the NDP of 13 years.
  4. Ken280 posted on 09/18/2012 05:31 PM
    The NDP in British Columbia, you say will be bad and look after their friends who voted for them? what the hell happened in the last 11years who have been looking after who's friend. You people are going to loose this argument so give it up already. we have had the perception of untruths and corruption. You can't hide always in the 90's this is another time we have all grown up and the people are on the move to throw out whom ever was in power and did not deliver with balance of fairness to all. unions you say are bad but it is ok, for big business to use the government for the policy that looks after their needs but if it is the working people union or non no raises. Some even hated to give an increase in the min wage for the low wage earner and now the right winger's are after peoples pensions and government workers to lower the wages to suit them, why not give people a decent living in one of the riches Country and best province in the world. The HST has been in line for long time now what about the lower prices that was promised and if taxes are always passed along to the people, it mean that business are really paying no tax at all? Eh!
    1. JD_9814 posted on 09/19/2012 08:29 AM
      @Ken280 Ken you are absolutely correct. I run a small business and the HST is reimbursed from HST I pay for that business - its a great tax for business, but very unfair to families who pay HST on basic items. They should have reduced HST to 9% which would have given same revenue stream as combined PST and GST as before. The way it is now, its just a money grab from families.

      I like the tax, but not the manipulation and deception with which is was implimented.
  5. joes_2868 posted on 09/18/2012 07:22 PM
    Ken280. A waste of time because they cannot win the 2017 election and that is the truth.
    1. Ken280 posted on 09/19/2012 03:16 PM
      @joes_2868 Mr Joe! You sir are blowing a gasket! Now you live in the past(90's) and future (2017) we want to look at the books Mr Joe and we will get the facts and you better hope that you still get your payday!! who cares about the election of 2017.We still have to get rid of this crowd and Sir if the split is on the right! looks like you are in for a long wait and if the books are so damning to the Liberal coalition it will be hard to bring them all back to win anything. Change is in the wind the right was might, now just in flight running away like rat's from a sinking ship! now take them facts Mr. Joe~~Adrian Dix is a very smart man, but you live in the past I know everyone wants to know the NDP plan so badly so they can start the fear mongering. I for one would hold off at the right moment then tell everyone the plan of going ahead. look at CC statement that she will follow on the same path as the NDP on the pipeline,seems she waits to hear DIX and then follows the NDP just like the min wage increase that you right wingers did not complain about too much but if that Was the NDP wow! we all know what would be said now! Oh! I am just stating facts MR.JOE knows all.
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