British Columbia NDP Majority Government 2024-(no later than) 2029

[Brad Sallows]

And it’s only eight months removed from an eight-week strike by the BC General Employees’ Union, which was so successful it broke the NDP government’s bargaining mandate to produce a richer contract worth billions more.

The nurses’ strike is the first since 1989. And the BCGEU strike was the longest in provincial history—eight weeks.

I assume the main aim of the BCGEU strike was to break the bargaining mandate, and the same for the nurses. I had a good laugh watching their president deliver the "Oh we were not part of any bargaining that produced that mandate; that's their problem" line. The NDP only needs to pretend to cave to one situation at a time to be "forced" to pay off me-too clauses.

 

[Kirkhill]

I think it's very funny that the NDP have proven time and again in various provincial legislatures in this Country that they turn anything they touch in to a dumpster fire, yet they manage to somehow convince voters from time to time that "this time will be different!".

Funnily enough the Canadian archetype for the NDP, Tommy Douglas, never ran a deficit, paid expenses out of revenues and left no debt.

But Tommy was an old fashioned Christian Socialist that believed in voluntary co-operation (hence Co-Operative Commonwealth Federation), not coercion. A Scot turned Canadian, a Protestant who chose the Baptist church, and like his fellow Saskatchewanian, John Diefenbaker, a Freemason.

All of the supporting structures seem to have been lost to modern Canadian socialists.