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Topic: B.C. transportation minister calls former MLA freeloader and cheat
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remind
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posted 05 November 2008 09:54 PM
A couple of points.It was Peter Ladner, Robertson's opposition to mayor who started the yelling about this, and the news here in BC basically gave him and his supporters free ads to smear Robertson. Of course Robertson did not bring it up in the BC legistlature when he was there, as it is municipal business. Which brings us to the point of why is the transportation minister saying anythiong at all about this other than to smear Robertson for his buddy Peter Ladner? It is also very easy to travel 2 zones and not know it, if one is not a regular sky train/bus user. All we are talking about a 1.25 difference here between 1 zone and 2 zones, and 3 zones is 5 bucks, while a day pass is 9 bucks.
fair zone map
[ 06 November 2008: Message edited by: remind ]
From: "watching the tide roll away" | Registered: Jun 2004
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remind
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posted 06 November 2008 01:35 PM
Thanks kropotkin, but really it seems very strange that he himself would believe he has a say as a public official, seeing as how HE was the person who created the board, that basically privaticized Translink. Which is why he does NOT know the rules. Asshat that he is. quote:
Originally posted by kropotkin1951:
At the end of the interview he said he didn't know what the Translink rules were. I pointed out that he was the person that took away the democratic oversight of Translink and gave it to an appointed board therefore not allowing the people to have any say in those kinds of fines and the fare structure.
So really all he was attempting to do was campaign for Ladner? quote:
[Many of the other callers made somewhat similar points but they also talked about his arrogance. It seems this liberal attack dog is starting to grate on many people not just people like me who have hated his arrogance for years.
Great, glad that this happened then, if only to indicate the provincial governments mucking around in the political affairs of a municipal campaign.
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remind
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posted 06 November 2008 10:33 PM
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Originally posted by NorthReport:
There was something on the CBC radio news tonite about some kind of incamera Vancouver City Council meeting arranged by Ladner, Sullivan, and other NPA cronies, to do with an Olympic village or development project. It's rumoured to be way over budget, and with no social housing which was originally promised. BCers should be tearing a strip off Campbell and all his right-wing buddies with his screw the citizen's financial approach to these Olympic Games.
Oh...it is much more than just that. There is no social housing that was promised and we are looking at Campbell perhaps going to institutionalize people to get them off of the streets. There is no housing for the athletes and staff at Whistler Village, the costs are way over budget and the construction firms cannot secure loans to keep on building, so there might have to be, or most likely will be, a provincial bailout of the construction companies for both the Olympics and the new convention centre. It is panning out to be a huge fiasco that could cost BC tax payers 100's of millions more for an event they cannot afford to attend, didn't want and a convention centre the majority will never use.
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