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

[dapaterson]

Municipal governments seem unaware that the people in their communities don't have unlimited revenue to milk.

Citizens demand services and refuse to pay to maintain them.

 

[Colin Parkinson]

Citizens demand services and refuse to pay to maintain them.

Sadly our education system does not put a premium on educating people how a community works and what is necessary and what is optional. Some people have no clue how they get water, electricity to their house and how and where the poop disappears.

 

[daftandbarmy]

I don't know how they got that amount, but it's a knee slapper nonetheless...

https://twitter.com/x/status/1967964253824201094

And some more digging reveals....

https://twitter.com/x/status/1968036062208655737

 

[Halifax Tar]

Citizens demand services and refuse to pay to maintain them.

That was the boomer battle cry for the last 60 years, no ?

 

[Kirkhill]

Eby seems to zeroing in on unchecked immigration as being one of the main causes, in addition to equalization unfairness.
Yesterday he called Carneys cut to TFW a farce and “smoke with mirrors (sic)”, saying the IMP is worse than the TFWP and blaming general federal government apathy+ laziness to bring unneeded and uninvited populations of a size equivalent of a city the size of Surrey every year. Twice he went that direction- saying the Feds are bringing in “hundreds of thousands of unqualified, low skill people who cost the economy far more than they can possibly ever contribute”.
He’s clearly reading and applying Conservative Party BC ideas and conclusions.

Then there will be a market for that "lab grown meat" we are all arguing over....

Where is Dean Swift when you need him?

A Modest Proposal in two words: Soylent Green.

 

[Rifleman62]

Eby is a comedian.

 

[Eaglelord17]

Citizens demand services and refuse to pay to maintain them.

They also demand certain services from the wrong levels of government.

My city has a indigenous coordinator and a environmental coordinator. Both positions shouldn’t exist in my opinion as they are Provincial/Federal responsibilities and have nothing to actually do with running a municipality.

I imagine a lot of cities have similar duplicate efforts which shouldn’t exist. Likely a lot of money could be saved just by eliminating those positions.

 

[OldSolduer]

They also demand certain services from the wrong levels of government.

My city has a indigenous coordinator and a environmental coordinator. Both positions shouldn’t exist in my opinion as they are Provincial/Federal responsibilities and have nothing to actually do with running a municipality.

I imagine a lot of cities have similar duplicate efforts which shouldn’t exist. Likely a lot of money could be saved just by eliminating those positions.

Greta would not be pleased.

Agreed - those positions at a municipal level that are a Prov/Fed level should be scrapped, but what are the Mayor's friends gonna do when their jobs are eliminated?

 

[daftandbarmy]

Trouble in the NDP house...

Selina Robinson was John Horgan's (NDP) Finance Minister:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1968128152351441344

 

[RangerRay]

They also demand certain services from the wrong levels of government.

My city has a indigenous coordinator and a environmental coordinator. Both positions shouldn’t exist in my opinion as they are Provincial/Federal responsibilities and have nothing to actually do with running a municipality.

I imagine a lot of cities have similar duplicate efforts which shouldn’t exist. Likely a lot of money could be saved just by eliminating those positions.

I would posit that a big part of the municipal environmental coordinator’s job is to ensure the municipality complies with provincial and federal legislation, reducing liability, and proposes remedies to gaps not addressed by said legislation within the municipality’s purview.

 

[daftandbarmy]

They also demand certain services from the wrong levels of government.

My city has a indigenous coordinator and a environmental coordinator. Both positions shouldn’t exist in my opinion as they are Provincial/Federal responsibilities and have nothing to actually do with running a municipality.

I imagine a lot of cities have similar duplicate efforts which shouldn’t exist. Likely a lot of money could be saved just by eliminating those positions.

No idea if this is the case but you might find that the municipality set up those positions to take advantage of federal and/or provincial grants targeting indigenous programming.