The Civic Election Results in Greater Vancouver: Bad Omens for Premier Clark
You’ll notice, with no surprise, that Premier Clark continues to campaign, instead of governing (which she hasn’t the first clue how to do) for an election she’s forsworn until 2013.
Bollocks….
Last, summer, after lying to the public and the media about her true intentions (it was to stop the BC Liberal money-men from ushering her out the door), she never stopped campaigning. This is not only because she doesn’t know how to commit to hard work (she’s never done any hard work in her political life) but because she can’t. MS. Clark is well-aware of the potential for an election this spring. She’s talked about it with Mike de Jong, because he’s fool enough to have, in turn, talked to several key members of the BC Liberal team. And every single last one of her inside circle have confirmed the same to party insiders: if they see a shot in the spring, they’ll take it.
While there may be several reasons for this, the results of this past weekend should douse those flames.
But then again, that would require some intelligence.
In key cities and municipalities where the BC Liberals will need sure votes, those cities either veered to the right or decidedly to the left; meaning, that their two main opponents, the BC Conservatives and the BCNDP had a very good weekend.
Let’s take the two major cities in the Lower Mainland as examples.
Vancouver is awash in NDP colours. The results that returned Gregor Robertson and his radicals: Wealthy enclaves of West Point Grey and Kerrisdale losing polls to the NDP backed Vision party. Huge swaths of previously guaranteed votes going to the left–definitively so. This is not a good omen for Ms. Clark, who has been unable to capture the imagination and hearts of BCers, concentrating instead on empty promises, vacuous messaging and shameless photo ops. It’s as if she knows she’s going to lose and is simply adding to her personal photo album–and all on your dime.
Constituencies like Fairview, Point Grey, Langara–they’re all gone. The NDP will sweep them with ease and the BC Liberals can only count on one seat in Vancouver–Vancouver Quilchena, but even there, a very prominent conservative with high name recognition is planning on running there. IF the NDP run a strong candidate there too, you could see the unthinkable: an NDP MLA in Quilchena. It’s not as far-fetched as you think.
In Surrey, where Dianne Watts soared to a third term–after being under attack by manufactured stories and scurrilous lies, she managed to grow in traditionally NDP areas. Since Ms. Watts is considered the anti-Christy by many NDPers, you have to wonder if a run for her is possible, but not in the capacity my pal Harv Oberfeld identified over the weekend.
Dianne Watts would never step in to save the BC Liberals as she’s told close supporters that the brand is dead. She made it clear to Global TV last summer and again in the fall on the same station. “Everyone is responsible for their own doings. They need to take responsibility for their actions, good or bad. You can’t expect someone truly from outside to come in and put a new face on old ideas.”
That was not only a formula for a new party “a new face on new ideas” but a veiled shot at Ms. Clark, who Ms. Watts privately views with legitimate disdain (as does Carole Taylor, the only plausible premier, other than Watts). Ms. Clark, hardly an outsider, was Deputy Premier when she was gift-wrapping BC Rail secrets for Erik Bornmann, Jamie Elmhirst, Bob Virk and Dave Basi, but too, under her portfolios, great damage was done to school children, seniors and the mentally challenged. Add all that to her horrific turn as the current Premier and the recipe for a full-on Clark disaster is ready to bake.
If the BC Liberal Party collapsed, as it looks like it may–due to massive defections, and the BC Conservatives could be convinced to stand down (not an impossible task either) you would see many of those left leaning seats turning to populist Watts, who identifies as neither conservative or liberal, under a new party that would pose a significant challenge to Adrian Dix.
Dianne Watts remains the most significant political force in the province and is unstoppable if she should decide to step up. Her type of populism (and popularity) hasn’t been seen in this province since W.A.C. Bennett.
Either way, Christy Clark didn’t have a good weekend. And that’s after wasting tens of thousands of dollars on trips to India and China, with the man she truly considers her deputy premier, her adviser and close confidante Mike de Jong. She accomplished absolutely nothing and is so vacant that she is trying to pass off memoranda and handshakes as solid agreements. She brought home nothing, zilch, zero, unless you consider video of Mike deJong “rocking it” (as the Premier so eloquently put on her TWITter feed) to bhangra hits. Honestly, think of the visual: Gumby on acid…
And then there’s more ‘Basi-Virk’…
No wonder people stay home.
Except in Surrey….
As long as Mike deJong wasn’t “rocking it” somewhere else with someone else…. What happened in India stays in India.
I would love to be a fly on wall were Ms Watts and Ms Taylor to be discussing BCCHRISTY
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You don’t need to be…
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Dianne Watts, whose municipal Surrey gov’t set up a development company using taxpayer funds but cannot be accessed or audited by the those very taxpayers. Right just what this province needs!!!!!
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Ron:
As one of my valued left wing readers I must ask you politely to give your head a shake and stop reading Laila Yuile’s complete horse shit.
I have lived in Surrey and used to own property in Surrey. I know the city for over thirty years. My father has owned (non-development) property there for almost fifty years. we’ve worked with Bob Bose (who deserved to lose), Doug McCallum (who deserved to lose) and Dianne Watts–who is firm, but fair. No free rides and when she tells you something she means it. she’s brought great promise, progress and dignity to Surrey. She would be transformational as premier.
She brought together in one working party, Consetvatives, Liberals and NDPers. Name anyone else to have done that? That’s surely to God what we very much need!
The Surrey Development Corp. is fully audited and completely accountable (financials are readily available and are independently reviewed every year). Laila Yuile has turned into a complete embarrassment. Her personal hate on for Dianne has completely clouded her ability to not only write objectively but much of what she’s written is either totally fabricated or shes lost her mind–and I’ve heard she may have to pay for some of that.
You need to set aside your political bias and look at matters objectively. I would never vote NDP but would have been tempted if Carole James were still leader–she has great integrity. I urge you to tune out when Laila writes about Dianne. There’s something really wrong with Laila. Very wrong. And that she was communications clerk for Ross Buchanan ‘s ridiculous campaign puts her and Mike Klassen in the same boat. Being a commentator or REAL writer is not something you can whore like that and expect to be taken seriously.
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What you’ve written about Doug McCallum totally corresponds with a statement made by a really hard-working and reputable Surrey construction contractor in the early 1990s: “Whatever he touches turns into shit”. I think McCallum’s track record fully corroborates this prophetic opinion.
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The man is a mess. His reign of error was abominable.
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Now Mr Dix will be emboldened to take the BCNDP hard left. However, never let it be said the BC Conservatives split the free enterprise vote. That happened in February, at the BC Liberal leadership convention.
Elections in Abbotsford and Pitt Meadows proved candidates better listen to what the people want instead of telling them what they will do to them with their hard earned tax dollars. An unsuccessful mayoral candidate, endorsed by two previous mayors, used an out of province call centre to solicit for votes. I had more calls from this guy’s team in two weeks than I have in the last three years. Yet, the winner, with 100 volunteers on the ground, connected to voters to get the vote out.
“Honestly, think of the visual: Gumby on acid.” Will this suffice, Alex? Check in about the 2:30 mark.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftUGgpxrjlc
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That’s hysterical.
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Alex, yours is always an entertaining and sometimes troubling read. Troubling when you dig to the truth and we see what lies beneath the crud of popular politics. Entertaining – because you take shots at previously impervious office bearers. Today as you talk about Dianne Watts with such favourable commentary, on the one hand I am heartened because I am a resident of Surrey and on another hand because I voted for her. Well, didn’t just about everyone who cast a ballot. In fact the election results demonstrated to me either that it is easier for a voter to elect an entire party, i.e. Surrey First, or she has fashioned a committed group of equally focused and determined candidates that people respect. It was a sweep – her sweep. Now if we could have a party leader provincially who would actually move the mountains of injustices that inept and inefficient bureaucrats and employees have created for citizens, there would be parents who are no longer bankrupted trying to recover their children from government care, and children who are not irreparably scarred after one, two, three, even four years in care before being returned. Yes, that has happening and is still happening. I have been advocating for some of these precious people.
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Very kind of you. I appreciate your sentiments. I, too, think Dianne has done a good job.
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At the risk of being too repetitive or having folks think my comments are like the fixed calls on radio, I have to say that I love your insights and analysis provincially. The truth resonates so deeply and, yes troublingly and entertainingly. After a decade of fluff passing as news and journalism and having letters to the editor passed over for pro-government propaganda, I’m thrilled to read you, Harv, and Rafe. I can’t get enough!
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And I am genuinely privileged to have readers like you. Thank you!
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Dr. Unruh is right about Watt’s Surrey First team and the fundraising / election machine behind it. Like the BCA (NDP) in Burnaby, the voters/taxpayers are not mad at those in power. Generally, the value for tax dollars is seen to be there.
As to the next Provincial election, the key issue will be “about the economy, stupid”. They electorate might even buy the argument in favour of “shared economic pain”, but not if The New BC Christie Liberals don’t reel in the expenses in a fair and just manner ~~ which does not include attacking the developmentally challenged, the disabled and the downtroddens. The Province is not wanting a cheerleading premier, but rather, a premier who knows how to sail in these economic rough seas, and whose priority is to save the passengers and crew!
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Some EXCELLENT points!
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Well this should be interesting for Christy…
the Occupy Vancouver is now in the process of setting up at the Provincial Courthouse…provincial land, making it Christy Clark’s problem not Gregor’s..wonder if we still will be paying for it?
to watch live go here.
http://www.livestream.com/axiomaticaorg
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Here is a better link for Occupy.
Indigenous land is the theme..
http://www.livestream.com/occupyvan
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Here is a link of Premier Cute “fed up” with those OccuPESTS: http://youtu.be/eW7t5l_PKgg
I hope this Premier gets it done because “we get it” already. But not hoilding my breath until the SWAT shows up.
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Yes, Josef, I liked her messaging on the issue too, but unfortunately, she then demonstrated how out of touch she is with the court system and how the law works. Lawyers can’t be bleary eyed, as they don’t need to be.
She took the same stance on the riots and we all know how that turned out.
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Alex: Was it not you who said, several months ago, that you would refer to her as Ms. Clark and never Premier Clark. Anyway, she’s Premier only to her buddies in Victoria.
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No, actually, it was Harvey Oberfeld and many soon followed.
I refer to Christy as ‘Premier’ because it’s a fact and I respect the office even if I don’t respect her. I think it’s absurd to play semantics with the fact she’s the Premier, like it or not–and I certainly dislike it since she’s unqualified and she cheated to win, but that’s immaterial on the issue of what one would call her. To each his own I guess.
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i wonder that when chisty clark looks in a mirror she see *s a reflection at all . she is a ghost of politics past
dianne watts wins because she has passion and integrety
dianne watts gives credit where credit is due.
christy clark takes credit for other*s work and none for her own crap
the bc liberals are dead
i for one met wac bennett many times he was a gentleman and dianne watts is a lady
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And Dianne Watts knows how to politely and firmly say ‘No!’ to a friend.
I know FOUR developers who went to the City with plans and when they were rejected and approached Dianne, she said the same thing. No favoritism, no nonsense. The campaign Ross Buchanan ran is textbook what not to do. He and Laila Yuile were making it up as they were going along. I’ve never met a bigger conspiracy theorist than Yuile. She’s unbelievable.
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i may not always agree with diane watts or some of her city councillors.
however i respect her
like wac bennett she has found the formula for success
1/ she listens
2/ she believes in concensus
3/ she really does care about surrey
4/ integrity
alex this is not a diannne watts love in , i am just stating facts
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Yeah, I know. I’ve disagreed with her before on a few things, but by and large, she’s aces.
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If she runs a good, or even excellent campaign (if or when she calls an election), I wonder if you’ll flip flop like you did with Anton, and carry Christies signs for her? Considering your stance on never voting NDP (understandable), and the propensity for Conservative right wing nutters to howl at the moon, it makes me wonder if or when you’ll warm to her. I’m sure it’s temping to want to tear me a new one for calling you a flip flopper, and you know I like and respect you, but that one just tasted bad in my mouth. But, to each his own, right?
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No, it’s not tempting to want to tear anything or anyone. It’s a valid observation you’re making and I’m only too pleased to address your points.
1) I regret endorsing Suzanne, on the one hand, and yet on the other, there was no one else with a reasonable shot at possibly knocking off Gregor.
2) I didn’t flip flop on Suzanne. although I can certainly see why and how you’d characterize it that way. I qualified my endorsement, if you care to remember, by explaining how despite my valid concerns, I had nowhere else to go. I didn’t feel any better about it, but I genuinely believe the city is in peril with Vision ruling the roost.
3) You can wonder all you want. I WARM TO NO ONE WHO IS CORRUPT AND DISHONEST. Suzanne is neither. Christy is BOTH! In spades!!!!!!!
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Dianne Watts – and a new party emerge? Because Dianne Watts says she is neither Liberal/Conservative .. and why are we to believe that ??
Look, Gordon Campbell ran and won as a Liberal (but he was soon to be found out to be anything but a Liberal). The party made up of half of old Socreds — along with Campbell proved to be right-wing bought out by Big Business/Howe Street lot. Either Campbell was bought beforehand or right after (oh and let’s not forget how the media helped he and the party win 2 more majorities), and would reap great rewards if he did what certain people wanted.
I’m not saying I know Dianne for certain to be that way, but since we’ve seen it before, as possible premier, she could be bought just like Campbell and the puppet on strings starts again and we would be right back where we’ve been. And no one has to tell you the mess it’s become, even if there were a couple of good years under the Liberals.
Although I must say I’m glad there still are people around that have a lot of trust in some politicians.
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Actually, you need to pay a little closer attention to FACTS:
1) Dianne Watts hasn’t said anything in that regard. She’s proved it in action. Both Barinder Rasode (who is wonderful) and Judy Villeneuve (who I’ve LOVED for years ) are NDPers. Why would they work for Watts if she WAS a Liberal in the Campbell mold? I realize you’re jaded but do try to make sense please.
2) Gordon Campbell is, in fact a NEO-Liberal. Nothing about him is conservative. In fact, he is more aligned with the people who delivered Paul Martin than anyone else.
3) Your contentions about Campbell being “bought out” are defamatory and unproven. Please don’t comment like that on my blog or I’ll ban you. I don’t like Gordon Campbell any more than you do, but I’ll be damned if I’ll allow anyone to make unproven statements here, without a stitch of proof. That’s a very serious accusation. Can you back it up? How was he bought? Who bought him? C’mon…
4) The 2009 election had nothing to do with the media, Carole James herself would admit to a lacklustre performance by her team. She did the best she could.
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I am normally very careful in my comments on blogs .. you are correct, it is best to be careful with comments. But from what I’ve read on yours sometimes as well as so many other sites/blogs, I am about as mild as they come. In fact sometimes the bloggers themselves say things that I wonder where in the world do they have this proof, never mind the comments.
Sometimes I think it becomes a sounding board in rather crazy times, not that people are meaning to hurt each other.
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And I appreciate your comments and think you’re quite reasonable but you MUST be careful. I take some risks, but they’re calculated down to the last decimal and I make sure I can back up what I write. Period.
I don’t go to any other blogs. Harvey Oberfeld and Norman Farrell–that’s it! All the others are NDP leaning, rabid cauldrons of hate and venom. It’s disgusting stuff. And they get it wrong and commit to smears. it’s a joke, frankly.
You’re always welcome here.
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Yes and they ban great BCLib supporters.
Free speech for me not for thee.
True rubbish.
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Oh well, if you’re referring to the leftards up north and in Garden Bay, well that’s par for the course there. Gary E, all these guys are cranks with keyboards as Morely Safer quite astutely put it. But Yuile showed some promise. Well, that evaporated during the last month. You can’t put a revolving door on how much you value integrity. You either do, or you don’t.
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Thanks Alex. I do value integrity.
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I know you do bud, just trying to make sure you’re alright.
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Woohoo! back to putting Christy under the ‘scope. It’s been a bit of a drought with the municipal elections and I’m glad their over. Great job of splicing together two of your passions Alex.
Christy Clark is going to look really good in a rear-view mirror as BC speeds away from her reign of error.
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Thanks Lee. Glad to have the municipal stuff over too.
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OK, the excrement hit the fan today !! Chrispy put her spike heel down, she’s “I’m fed up with it, ” the “occupy” entitlement shenanigans).
No idea how she could be “fed up”, she been on her Asian “Wiggle & Jiggle Tour” for two bloody weeks !
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I know. It’s extraordinary behavior, but as we know, she has no shame.
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Bought or not, it is more than apparent who the Highest Commissioner answered to or who was pulling his strings anyway. That would fit into your fact file. Money in the right pockets is their politics by the look of it. Will Watts have the cajones, if she indeed looks at a provincial chair to stand up to big league developers, like lets say, natural gas who enjoy monster subsidies thanks to Campbell??
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Watts is a dangerous combination of smarts and savvy. All of that would be gone, I assure you.
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Then, I assume, you’re pretty pissed off about the carbon tax … you know, the one that takes your money and uses it to subsidize industries for non-existence problems.
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This doesn’t look so good
http://www.vancouversun.com/Husband+senior+Clark+aide+wins+lucrative+contract/5746890/story.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
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Dear Puff,
Some very interesting comments you made about Ross Buchanan and Laila Yuile. As usual, you got it wrong. The papers recognized that Ross brought forward valid questions that have been around for a long time before Laila got them. Ross Buchanan is an independent candidate, so therefore beholding to no one, except the people of Surrey.
There are many concerns out there..
“The battle for industrial land is heating up in Surrey with the city buying up property and going head-to-head with private developers.”
“The corporation, the first of its kind in Metro Vancouver, manages city lands and generates revenue through real estate investments and joint developments with the private sector.”
“Its controversial land purchase has led to the resignation of a director on the corporation’s board and angst among developers who warn the city is potentially setting itself up for a fall similar to Vancouver’s Olympic Village fiasco.”
“They’re entering an arena they know nothing about,” said developer Ryan Beedie, who owns about 70 acres in Campbell Heights. “They’re buying land and bringing it to market when there’s already ample supply … they’re going to compete head-to-
head with us.
“Now they’re facing competition from the city, which is selling land to the market at a time their own properties haven’t taken off.”
Eric Carlson, of Anthem Properties, said Surrey officials aren’t playing on a level field with the private sector.
Carlson said the corporation will likely see advantages in getting permits, rezonings and setbacks because of its connections with the city, especially if the market softens. Carlson said the corporation will likely see advantages in getting permits, rezonings and setbacks because of its connections with the city, especially if the market
softens.
But Michael Geller, a planning and development consultant, isn’t so sure Surrey is making the right decision. He stepped down as a director from the corporation last month, saying he didn’t “fully agree with some of the things” the group was doing. “I share some of the concerns expressed by developers that the corporation is
potentially competing inappropriately with the private sector,” he said.
“I have the greatest admiration for the mayor [but] the city needs to be very careful when it embarks on development activity as evidenced by the experiences of the City of Vancouver in southeast False Creek.”
The difference, said Geller, is that most municipalities limit themselves to simply assembling land and servicing it with utilities — leaving the job of building things to the private sector.
“The Surrey City Development Corporation is acting much more like a private developer than any of the other cities and municipalities,” said Geller. “I can understand the perception but it’s not the reality,” Cox said. “We’re really in the business to make money.
Cox said the corporation is in talks with one tenant interested in a large parcel in Surrey, and added it is also hoping to reap some more business from the mayor’s business trip next year to India. (Sounds like Crusty!)
I can see no conspiracy theories, as the Province, The Sun, etc, found nothing like that. Maybe you should read her work. It is informative, on topic, and not puffed with your “right’ slant on everything.
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Dear Kam:
As you’re aware, I usually delete your comments, precisely for the reasons you’ve once again demonstrated here, but this comment was interesting, in that apart from being a charter member of the far left wing cranks club, which includes the mentally unstable, habitual liar you adore and Ms. Yuile who only continues to shame herself and no one else, you raised some EXCELLENT examples of how cranks on the internet work.
Thank you SO much for this, as it’s an opportunity to, once again, demonstrate how people like you slither from site to site, unchecked and unaccountable.
1) Can you name ONE paper that actually made the statement you are attributing to them, in those words? Buchanan is a full-on dimbell if he thinks those of us who know Surrey better than he ever will, don’t see right through the mischaracterizations, willful or not. Independent candidates are always not beholden to anyone or anything? You should ask Mr. Tough Guy, Grant, Brian or whatever name he’s hiding under this week, to give you a higher dosage.
2) The media clips you cited are nothing more than reporting of comments and opinion offered by Ryan Beedie, who I know well and Michael Geller, who is a very close friend of mine. Beedie and his family are the largest industrial land bank in BC. They’re billionaires that have had a free run for decades in Surrey. The prices, some have argued, were being artificially driven by such a monopoly. The SDC is supposed to operate in micro-markets where it can enter into agreements, which will yield reasonable profits. It’s not supposed to make huge returns. Ryan’s whining was satiated when after several deals, it became clear the SDC was interested in smaller deals or pieces of larger deals. They didn’t have the expertise on the board to do that, but they do now. Have you ever sat on such a board? That size of company? I have. Several times. Lots of politics; lots of machinations and schemes and plays afoot. It’s never ending. Also, Ryan is a very close friend of Kevin Falcon’s and Kevin has been side sniping Dianne for years. He considers her a threat to his designs on becoming Premier. Notwithstanding that she’s brighter and better qualified (my post later today on Kevin will show that in spades).
3) Eric Carlson, who I’m also acquainted with, is a top shelf developer. Anthem are among the best in the business. And his concerns, at the time, were valid. But what does market competition have to do with Buchanan’s insane allegations that the SDC is unaccountable, when their books are audited yearly and their statements are readily available? Do you only appear confused or is this an offshoot of your treatment in Garden Bay in the burned out shack? LOL!
4) Michael Geller’s resignation from the SDC was on a matter of principle. He doesn’t believe that the SDC should be in market CONDOS. He didn’t object to any other investments. It was the condo investments, AT THE TIME, because the market looked like it was stalling. But that hasn’t happened in Surrey and as a result of Michael’s advice to Dianne, the corporation is only taking small pieces of such investments and leaving the vast majority of the building to market developers, as it should. So, where is Mr. Buchanan’s concern? What Geller expressed as an objection was noted and acted upon. If anything, and I’ve had this discussion with Michael before, I think he was hasty. The board had changed, Michael Goldberg from UBC’s Sauder School is now on the board and will make a superb addition. Plus, more development experience has come aboard so the possible conflicts in the early going have all been allayed. Issue? None, but your “left” slant on everything would have a platform if you couldn’t manufacture anything further now wouldn’t it?
5) Most municipalities do assemble land and service it as Michael suggests, but a great many, like Calgary and Toronto, have found ways of PARTNERING with developers to yield SOLID returns to the investor/taxpayer. The developments the SDC have invested in–most of them. aren’t even complete. How does Mr. Buchanan know they are a bust? This, to me–as a former developer of gated residential/vacation communities in the US, demonstrates, to use the patois of the street that you might be able to reckon, that you don’t know your ass from a hole in the ground. One this issue, the same can be said for Buchanan, Yuile and anyone else so myopic. I don’t know anything about being a pharmacist so I don’t talk to my mother about her cholesterol medication. I’m completely useless on skates, so I don’t give advice to young hockey players. I suggest you not try to speak of building buildings again. Same goes for Yuile, who since she flagrantly demonstrated such bias has permanently shamed herself (that she sees nothing wrong with what she did tells the real story) and Buchanan, who appeared confused on many issues during the campaign. Clearly, voters saw through that and turfed even his ally, Bob Bose, who based on his pitiful performance over time, should have moved along long ago.
Finally, Kam, I think when Brian Goof is back in Surrey, the two of you should send me a note. Last time the imbecile was here with his Captain’s hat (LOL!) you demonstrated exactly across the street from one of our buildings–where my office is housed. You keep referring to me as ‘Puff’ but that was thirty pounds ago. Since I know you’re both in such great shape, I’d like to show you how much better I look because I know you’re concerned with my health. So, PLEASE, next time the two of you are around, I’d be delighted to take you down to the water for a drink. It’s just a few minutes away from where I write my columns and posts, on a daily basis.
Thanks for stopping by.
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Alex, there were many, many BC Liberals getting paid to work the Vision campaign. They also had many key BC Liberal supporters as donors and volunteers.
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I’m well aware of this. Ian Baillie is part of the old Clark/Marissen crew. He recruited most of them.
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In today’s 24H news I read an excellent column by ex-policeman Leo Knight (there are other talented people who wrote for this little freebie, that we are aware of) wherein he notes the fact that none of the miscreants of the Occupy movement were ever charged with all kinds of crimes the rest of us would be hauled before the courts for. In fact I know of one grandmother who has spent months in jail for refusing to obey an injunction against demonstrating against abortion within the a “bubble-zone” designated by the courts. She is aware of that fact and refuses to obey the injunction, so assured is she of the injustice abortion visits on both mother and child. Yet not one charge has been laid against lawlessness of the occupiers. Mr. Knight notes that, “Enabling anyone to live outside of the law, for any reason, is wrong.”
Meanwhile, over at the other freebie handout, Metro News, it is reported that Coun. Geoff Meggs ( the fellow who wants to tear down the Dunsmuir and Georgia viaducts, in order that developers can build high cost condos and the likes, on the land beneath them.) is in favour of a developing the False Creek flats into a village of canals and VIADUCTS connecting huge residential spaces and parks and greenhouses and other dreamy ecological nonsense.
If my reading of history is correct the flats were once swamps drained and reclaimed decades before and were up to that time, not much more than a dumping ground for various refuse. I can well imagine the quivering mass of primordial soup this would become after the much anticipated earthquake.
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Off topic here, except it applies to most of our politicians, apparently. According to the latest news Larry Campbell may have been high on more than just himself, and Sam got a kick out of more than just watching hookers shoot up in the back of his van. And why could not a man who guided the City of Vancouver and the Province of B.C., not guide himself around his own patio; railing or no? Of course no one really ever understood Philip Owen, did they? Alex G. may want to speculate some more on the Moonbeam’s stance on this matter.
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I don’t need to: Robertson came out today claiming the other previous 4 mayors are right.
And they’re all wrong.
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Well, there we have it! Is it any wonder that this country/province is a mess? The lunatics are in control the asylum! But we knew that, didn’t we?
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