BC Liberal candidate Doug Clovechok criticizes MLA Norm Macdonal
Posted by editor on February 3, 2012 · 2 Comments
There is a Chinese proverb that says “talk does not cook rice.” Based on the “communities control “article written by Norm Macdonald there is no substance in his pot apart from his non-nutritional words. According to Macdonald the “provincial government has consistently removed power and resources from local communities and centralized decision making in the Premiers office”; as he is well aware this is just not true.
Since forming government, the BC Liberals have and continue to invest in our communities giving them the local control they deserve. We have provided $2.7 billion in new funding to local governments, we created and funded the $20 million Spirit Squares Program enabling local celebration sites in communities and invested $51 million on Towns for Tomorrow funding up to 80% of infrastructure projects in smaller communities. We established a new one-stop Rural secretariat to assist municipalities and regional districts in applying for government infrastructure funding programs, we promised and passed the Community Charter giving local governments the most empowering local government legislation in Canada, we brought in new Resort Community Legislation which provided funding to communities including Golden, Invermere, Kimberley, Radium Hot Springs and Revelstoke; communities along with others who share approximately $19 million annually to further invest in their local infrastructure and amenities. We created WelcomeBC, a comprehensive approach to enhance settlement and integration services to help newcomers better adapt to life in their new communities and to assist communities to be more welcoming, we launched Network BC to help connect 151 communities without access to the internet, since 2001 we have provided arts and cultural groups found in communities throughout BC with more than a half billion dollars, more than any other government in the history of BC! We continue to focus on Community Living BC supporting adults with developmental disabilities and their families so they can have meaningful lives in their communities. Working directly with communities we have established 65 new parks, 144 conservancies, two ecological reserves and nine protected areas. We have expanded more than 60 parks and six ecological reserves, protecting more than 1.9 million hectares of land; an area almost three times the size of PEI.
When Norm Macdonald tells us that “we need to choose a government that understands and supports the power of community” he is correct. What he forgot to mention is our collaborative achievements with communities and that British Columbia already has that government under the leadership of Premier Christy Clark and the BC Liberals. So Norm, please tell us what the NDP have put into the pot over the last two decades keeping in mind that talk does not cook rice!
Doug Clovechok
BC Liberal Candidate for Columbia River-Revelstoke
Fairmont Hot Springs, BC
Doug Clovechok – you need to do more of your Liberal MP job and less criticizing of NDP Norm Macdonald. They are the Opposition Party because We The People voted them in and Not You, of the Liberal Party who sells us out All The Time! Stop all the Million Dollar Multi Television and Mail Advertising and Marketing when we are all very aware of what we all see on HDTV,
Mr. Clovechuk, you make some excellent points and examples of how the Liberals have done much for our communities.
You are correct in the extreme as to how Mac donald and the NDP have just run scared over the years as they seem to be bankrupt of ideas and solid alternatives to a party that actually does things.
It is unfortunate that they the NDP, have voted against so many things proposed for the populace for our benefit. It is fortunate for the populace that the majority of folks continue to vote in a LIberal majority. Otherwise, I can envision another NDP governement and the eroding of community rights and financial indebtedness as per the last time they were in power.
Jane is correct, Norm did get in. . . . . the last two times but unfortunately, he has done nothing for our communities but talk. But then so does my grandmother – - talk, talk. talk, and no action