Adrian Dix: Let’s give the people of B.C. something to vote for

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      Leadership candidates talk about themselves a great deal but I believe this election is about the NDP members and the coming election is about the voters.

      That is why I have made my leadership campaign about the people of B.C.:

      Ӣ The health care worker and single mom who saw her job privatized by the B.C. Liberals and as a consequence ended up working 72 hours a week to support her children;

      Ӣ The forest worker who lost his job and watches raw logs leave British Columbia;

      ”¢ The woman I met in Kamloops who is considering leaving her home of 30 years because the government hiked up her husband’s long-term care fees.

      They and so many others are yearning for change in B.C. They have been let down by their government and the political system.

      1.4 million British Columbians did not vote in the last provincial election. They are disproportionally out of the workforce, disproportionally live in low-income neighborhoods, disproportionally young.

      My goal in this leadership campaign has been to give them something to vote for, something to believe in.

      I believe if we are clear and show real differences from the B.C. Liberal government, we will win the election.

      That is why I have proposed a plan to improve public health care while Chrisly Clark is recommending cutting $518 million from medicare this year.

      That is why I have proposed immediate steps to address raw log exports to create jobs in B.C., while Christy Clark wants to expand the export of raw logs to Washington, Oregon, and overseas.

      That is why I have proposed specific costed initiatives to improve access to postsecondary education while Christy Clark remains indifferent to students and families struggling to afford university and college, and retraining.

      That is why I have proposed to reinistate the minimum tax on banks while Christy Clark supports raising MSP premiums and long-term care fees.

      That is why I have proposed to use the carbon tax to support actual environmental initiatives while Christy Clark wants to continue to use it to subsidize corporate tax cuts. Because you can not use the same money twice, I have called for a roll back of the three recent corporate tax cuts that the B.C. Liberals funded through carbon tax revenue.

      I am looking forward to the debate in the next election because I know that if we present a positive agenda on the economy, the environment, social justice, health care, and education, we will win the next election.

      And more important than that, we will have a mandate to make B.C. a more just, a more fair, a more dynamic, and more progressive province.

      Adrian Dix is a B.C. NDP leadership candidate.

      Comments

      4 Comments

      Lynn Smith

      Apr 13, 2011 at 10:39am

      Adrian, you will make a wonderful premier. I appreciate your tireless work on behalf of the people of B.C. and the fact that you actually get results. You've been up front and creative with your policies during this campaign and have had the courage to call yourself "left wing" (that's not something to be ashamed about). Onwards and upwards!

      NoLeftNutter

      Apr 13, 2011 at 2:08pm

      Adrian Dix - not content until he controls all of your productivity. The perfect ideology for a party looking to spend 10 more years on the sidelines.

      Phlogiston

      Apr 13, 2011 at 11:09pm

      Adrian has been effective in opposition and he's an unabashed social democrat. His NDP opponents tip toe around progressive taxation and talk about dialog / "fair tax", etc.; without some budgetary room to manoeuvre the NDP are handcuffing themselves right out of the gate. He may yet earn my vote if he can exorcize the small l liberal tendency and not apologize for looking for looking for some good old social justice.

      Bobby Peru

      Apr 14, 2011 at 5:57am

      Every one of Dix's policies or suggestions has something to do with protecting or strengthening unions or protectionism. Do we taxpayers really need overpaid janitors in hospitals? Do we need to subsidize jobs for forest workers? And persecuting companies that create jobs is the last thing we need to repeat. Drive out private sector jobs and replace them with public sector union jobs- is this realistic? Who needs the private sector and big business when Dix can rewrite all the economic rules of productivity. Reinstating minimum taxes on banks is a rerun of Glen Clark policies.

      Just wait, all of these policies are pretty much a sequel to Glen Clark, 90s disaster film which ran to empty BC voters. Dix will need all those 1.4 mio socially disenfranchised voters to get off welfare and UI to make him premier so that he can increase welfare costs. No wonder Dix simply scares the hell out of BC voters. Are BC voters so scared and bitter that they will drink Dix's Koolaid? Stranger things have happened.