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With only 163 days to go to the next provincial election, the campaign for the hearts and minds of British Columbians is well underway.
As Bill Tieleman wrote in his November 25th column for the Georgia Straight, “the recent information mailing about the province’s economy … is nothing less than pre-election Liberal Party propaganda, as well as false advertising paid for by taxpayers.”
Where the B.C. budget for 1999 was balanced under the New Democratic government, and the 2000 budget had a record surplus of $1.5 billion, upon their election in 2001 the B.C. Liberals racked up the largest two deficits in provincial history, adding more than $5 billion in debt to the province’s books between 2001 and 2005.
Although Gordon Campbell’s Liberals cut taxes for the rich by $2 billion dollars within a month of their ascension to power, in the following two years the Fiberals actually hiked taxes by $1 billion, most of which hit lower-and middle-income earners.
David Schreck, of Strategic Thoughts.com, also weighs in on the Fiberals reign of mismanagement of the B.C. economy, and the half-truths and outright lies that have been propagated in the thinly veiled, taxpayer funded, multi-million dollar Liberal Propaganda Achieve B.C. ads that have littered the airways and filled up whole pages of newspapers across B.C.
Caring British Columbians are not about to sit back and allow the Fiberals to hoodwink us into voting for them a second time. To that end, the Hospital Employees Union has released this ad, to provide information and historical insight into one of North America’s most regressive governments.
