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One of the most repressive governments in North America, the Gordon Campbell Liberals are easily on par with the most far right wing elements within the Bush administration in terms of the policies which both governments have chosen to enact since taking power in 2001.
Although Gordon Campbell lacks the power to send soldiers to their death in foreign lands, as President Bush is doing in his misadventure in Iraq, make no mistake there are just as many men, women and children dying in British Columbia, as are American soldiers in Iraq, as a consequence of the devastating attacks on the poor enacted by Campbell.
Whereas in the United States a well-funded free press (not to mention, a plethora of blogs), and a much more open system of government, investigates and reports every incidence of Bush administration wrong-doing, in British Columbia a media clearly in the pocket of the government (think CanWest Global) daily fails to report the human casualties of the disastrous anti-social policies enacted by the Liberals.
In fewer than 13 months, Gordon Campbell’s Liberals will go to the polls. VanRamblings will seek in the coming weeks and months to report on the many misadventures of the provincial Liberals, and the harm their policies have caused to all British Columbians, since they assumed power on May 16, 2001. In the meantime, The Tyee.ca’s Paul Ramsey poses 10 rather tepid questions to consider in the lead-up to the next provincial election.
