Good for Mr James and finally some flexibility by JC - is there hope for this party ?

That's one of the great things about the BC Conservatives, part of their policy is that MLA's can speak up for their constituents. They don't have to vote with the party majority, unlike all other political parties at all levels of government.

If all of the people who keep speaking against the BCCP as a viable option in the upcoming election would just read through their policy document, basically do some research before just automatically slamming them as a choice, I think they would see that the BCCP would be a great option as the MAJORITY party in BC.

I am a member of the BC Conservative Party and support the pipeline. However I also support members, candidates and leaders to speak their mind and not tow the party line if they do not believe in it or their constituents don't believe in it. People are elected to serve the people, not the party.

Do you think the princes of Commerce supported Christye because they new she would push everyone's nose out of joint. The purpose being to get loyal Liberals to jump to the other free enterprise party.

Lots of sneaky stuff going on now days.

I was so surprised when the Liberals picked Christye for their leader. Didn't anyone listen to her talk radio show? It was clear to me.

ChrisM_18: That's right. Cummins is not the answer. If the Liberals have to go, the NDP are not the answer. The proper thing to do is to put both the Liberals and NDP in opposition status.
The voting is polarized. Voters go to the voting poll with the intentions of who they want to vote for and some change their mind because they are worried that a party might form government, so they change their choice of party.
If the total voters went to the voting booth and elected for exactly who they had in mind, there is a very good chance, that B.C. would have a minority government.
This next election will be decided on the swing ridings. These swing ridings can go either way. In the 2009 election these ridings were won by under 5% difference between the Liberals and the NDP.
There are 17 swing ridings. In the 2009 election, 10 were won by the Liberals, 6 by the NDP, and 1 by the Independent, that of Vicky Huntington.
The taxpayers in Nova Scotia had Conservative and Liberal provincial governments.
Remember that these are the provincial arm of the Federal wings of the party.
The B.C. Liberals are a coalition of Conservatives and Liberals, just like the Saskatchewan Party in Saskatchewan who are the government in Saskatchewan.
The Nova Scotia taxpayers decided to take a chance on electing a provincial NDP government in 2009, just to give them a try after many terms of conservative and liberal governments.
They remember, why not, an election will have to held on their perfomance anyway.
The NDP won the Nova Scotia election for the first time in history of Nova Scotia politics. They have now destroyed the province and it is time for a provincial election in Nova Scotia once again.
The outcome of the next election is said to be once again a Liberal provincial government.
The taxpayers gave the NDP a chance, but they demolished the province.
Will go down in history, as a one term government just like that of Dave Barrett's NDP government in B.C.
If taxpayers do give the cheque book of the province to Adrian Dix on May 14, 2013, he will only have the cheque book until 2017.
In 2017, he will be voted back to opposition status.
A new coalition party will form government and then once again have to go in and clean up the mess left by Adrian Dix and take drastic measures just like Bill Bennett of the Social Credit and Gordon Campbell of the Liberals had to do to take the province back to prosperity.
The NDP are history in Saskatchewan and Ontario. The NDP are the third party in Ontario and hold 17 seats out of a total of 108.
Before the provincial election of 2011, in Saskatchewan, the NDP, the official opposition party, had 20 seats and after the election had only 9 seats and their leader even lost his seat.
Imagine, they were the opposition party going into the election and still were slammed by the voters.
Governments are all the same, but some are better than others.
It is very comical here in B.C. Presently B.C. is a "HAVE" province and has a AAA- credit rating, second highest in Canada next to Alberta.
This does not seem to sink into the voters. You have to work to obtain these two accomplishments.
The major six banks in Canada do not have one AAA rating, reason being they take too many chances in lending out money.
The election will come shortly. The sad part is that not every taxpayer will cast a ballot and the taxpayer not realizing that they have the final say in who is the government.
DON'T BLAME NDP PREMIERS OR LIBERAL PREMIERS, BLAME OURSELVES. WE ARE THE ONES THAT GIVE THEM THE JOB.
A lot of taxpayers seem to forget, that B.C. is an investment province. Investment companies do not believe in NDP governments.
When a NDP government forms in B.C. the investment company takes it out on their employees. Lay off slips are handed out.
It seems odd that this is the case, but this is politics. Amazing of how you plan on voting goes right down to the factor, will that pay cheque still be their every second Friday.
This does not happen with taxpayers employed by the municipal, provincial, and federal governments. Work as usual regardless of who is the provincial government.

bctaxpayer: Firstly tell us about Dave Stupich.

Just finished reading an article on former NDP premier Mike Harcourt. It was about the Dave Stupich NDP scandal.

Mr. Harcourt tried to contain the damage by claiming whatever happened in Nanaimo was limited to that riding and had been done by a previouse generation of NDP'er's.

The government and party was clean he said.

But the Parks report found otherwise, showing that while Mr. Harcourt had been denying any involvement by the NDP outside Nanaimo, provincial NDP directors, had voted to make a SECRET PAYMENT BACK TO THE NCHS.

THE PAYMENT WAS MEANT TO COVER UP AN EARLIER TRANSFER OF FUNDS BETWEEN NCHS AND THE NDP.

NOTHING BUT CORRUPTION UNDER THE NDP!

Sounds just like a story from the TV show the Untouchables.

LeonW: You are doing it right now. 49% plus of the popular vote needed for the NDP to win government. Not much hope in that happening.
Me a whiner, I don't think so. You NDP'er's just can't stand feedback!

Yes I agree The Liberal leader picked when Campbell resigned was poorly thought out. That said your name calling does you no credit.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character. Ralph Waldo Emerson