Apr 28 2005
Blogging the BC Election?
This morning I spent a bit of time looking for someone - anyone talking in blogs about the BC election May 17. I did manage to find a few. Unsurprisingly, they are almost all leftist. I found a nice article by “The Tyee”, a relatively new online news journal (not a blog?). Of course, though, “The Tyee” is reputed to be leftist in orientation, and a cursory search of the links to blogs in the article failed to reveal any that dared to not be of a lefty variety.
I almost feel like I am in a clever disguise, with my “Left-Handed” title… like I am using it as a “cover” to keep from getting mauled by the NDP/Union bears that overrun this province. “No! Really! I AM a Leftist! I am just ‘pretending’ to be right wing… please don’t send me back to Alberta! Whatever happened to diversity in this province? Only in appearance, not in thought? Ohh… I didn’t catch that on the ‘Welcome to BC’ sign in Yoho National Park…”
At any rate, I think this could be a not NDP supporting BC blog. Of course, it is pretty narrowly focused, but I’ll take it. This one may be cleverly disguised, but it looks suspiciously like a person who isn’t out to throttle Campbell. However, the remainder of links in the first paragraph are pretty staunchly left.
Don’t get me wrong. I don’t much like Campbell either. I mean look at this picture for crying out loud! It is horrendous! I stopped liking him when he tried privatizing the Coquihalla Highway (a money-making venture for the government - why sell off something that MAKES you money?) and privatizing BC Hydro. I am sorry, but taking a resource that was bought and paid for by British Columbians, for British Columbians, and letting a private corporation ship all its production to American corporations is just horrendous. The dams that have been built in this province have changed the geography of BC, moved communities, and provided us with a massive amount of clean, cheap energy. One of the perks of living and working in BC SHOULD BE cheap power. As it is, BC Hydro has been raising rates and slowly losing control of itself as it is integrated into the power grid of North America - that is bad enough. But to just let it go, allow British Columbians to be visited by the same kinds of power rates that are found elsewhere where power sources are scarce, is to take away a big part of what makes this province great.
Whew. I think I could talk about BC Hydro all day. At any rate, back to Campbell’s Liberals. I don’t like Federal Liberals, and I don’t believe that BC Liberals are really any different at heart. However, to get themselves elected, they are masquerading as the “right” in this province. Should it ever be politically expedient, I have NO DOUBT they would morph into a leftist party in every sense of the word. I await the rising of a REAL right wing party in this province - once that stands for something, one that listens to the people, and one that wants to engage in meaningful reform of the way government is done here. Until then, the quest continues for more BC right wing blogs… they must exist… somewhere….
