Sentences with phrase «bc liberal»

In 2010, ICBC's enabling legislation, the Insurance Corporation Act, was amended by Christy Clark's BC Liberal government to allow the Cabinet Committee to compel ICBC to pay specified dividends into the provincial treasury.

While trans activists and their allies demanded this change, the BC Liberal government insisted for years that the change was unnecessary.

From there the lawyer moved to the phones, ringing up people to urge them to vote BC Liberal.

The re-elected BC Liberal Government decided to cap the tax at this level indefinitely.

(The Green Party was pushing for $ 10 a year; the BC Liberal Party, which had controlled the province since 2001, vowed to keep the tax capped.)

With reports showing that, on average, BC Liberal donors received twice as many contracts from the provincial government than companies that did not donate.

The latter half of 2016 saw a number of interventions by the BC Liberal government to curb speculative property purchases by non-residents and cool an overheated housing market.

Christy Clark's BC Liberal government screwed up on both counts.

However, we know that from 2011 to 2015, Kinder Morgan contributed $ 38,000 to the BC Liberal Party.i Over roughly the same time span (September 2011 to September 2016), Kinder Morgan initiated a total of 458 lobbying - related contacts with political representatives across the province.

In March 2017, the BC Liberal government and IBM parted ways over the bungled rollout.

While the BC Liberal Government in the 2017 Throne Speech discussed working with municipalities it increase supply, details of how this will do this have yet to be released.

We believe the BC Liberal policies on GHG emissions are in line with the stated positions of the GVBOT, especially their recommitment to revenue neutrality.

VICTORIA — Last week — seven months after being sworn in — Finance Minister Carole James delivered the first full budget that puts people first after 16 long years of BC Liberal neglect.

Take, for example, Ken Boessenkool, the former BC Liberal Chief of Staff and before that, an advisor to Stephen Harper.

The BCTF achieved full collective bargaining rights in 1987, and lost the right to strike in 2001 when the BC Liberal government passed essential services legislation.

KELOWNA — In sharp contrast to the BC Liberal government, Adrian Dix and the New Democrats are prepared to revitalize BC's agricultural sector through comprehensive measures including grants to fruit growers, the purchase of BC foods by BC's health care...

BC Liberal environment minister Terry Lake said Horgan's comments show Dix is not being clear with voters on the party's pipeline position.

VICTORIA — Fentanyl overdoses are projected to claim a record number of lives in British Columbia this year, but the BC Liberal government has failed to provide adequate, accessible pathways to treatment for people and families desperately seeking mental health and addiction services, said New Democrat leader John Horgan.

Since then the ruling BC Liberal party received a vote of non-confidence and the BC NDP, led by John Horgan as premier, has taken power.

On February 16, 2016 the BC Liberal government delivered its budget and fiscal plan.

BC Liberal leader Andrew Wilkinson criticized the reference question, saying it acknowledges the province lacks the jurisdiction to stop the shipment of oil in tankers.

Yes, 85 elected representatives are coming together from all corners of the province, just as the political game is getting interesting — BC Liberal cash - for - access fundraising dinners -LSB-...]

Fyfe was assistant deputy attorney general in October 2010 when the BC Liberal government agreed to pay the $ 6 million legal bill for former aides Dave Basi and Bob Virk after their plea bargain halted the BC Rail corruption trial.

A trial had been scheduled to run Oct. 16, 2017 to Feb. 22, 2018 and would likely have overshadowed the election of a new BC Liberal leader on Feb. 3.

Christy Clark was told about the BC Liberal Multicultural Strategic Outreach Plan more than a year before the NDP released a leaked copy.

It was not the first case involving a BC Liberal operative for St. Pierre, a 2009 - appointed judge.

BC Liberal operative Bonney was hired to be communications director for the government's multiculturalism branch and tasked to carry out the party plan to target ethnic voters in swing ridings for the 2013 election.

Christy Clark and her BC Liberal party collected more than $ 771,000 in campaign donations from the Texas pipeline company and its oil patch backers.

It took until May 2016 for BC Liberal operative Brian Bonney to be charged with breach of public trust.

The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers are also big - time BC Liberal donors, giving the party $ 112,795 since 2005.

That same month, Suncor donated $ 2,250 to BC Liberal campaign coffers.

And that colourful party has only one MLA, who supported the regressive — environmental endangering — BC Liberal budgets for the first two years of his 4 year term!

Clark quit as both BC Liberal leader and Kelowna MLA last August, after Abbotsford MLA Darryl Plecas dissented at a Penticton caucus retreat.

Critics say the upheaval at Nanaimo Seniors Village is part of a larger picture of layoffs and wage cutting at health facilities around the province, practices allowed under legislation passed by the BC Liberal government to aid privatization.

Sangha is the right - hand man to Vancouver Whitecaps» owner and BC Liberal donor Greg Kerfoot.

Only when the bill arrived were they told to make the cheques to the BC Liberal Party.

Halfway through the election, BC Liberal candidates have ducked debates in about half of BC's ridings.

In 2002, the BC Liberal Party cancelled a fundraiser after word spread it was soliciting donations from Vancouver public relations firms.

A federal Conservative, he got involved in the BC Liberal party after Campbell became leader.

Now the BC Liberals will form the next government and dominate the Legislative Assembly with enough votes to impose their version of economics and progress without too much bothersome consultation or compromise.

Get off your butt, Mr. Dix, not because the BC Liberals might win but because you might just lose, and forever be linked with Gordon Campbell as another man who leaned on his oars when he should have been rowing like hell.

Today's BC Liberals have a lousy leader but a good campaigner at the helm and she will concentrate on two things — Dix's creating a false memo to help Glen Clark out of the mess he was in over a gambling license and the dismal financial record of the NDP years.

Not because the BC Liberals won — political opponents have to accept that some times the other team had a superior campaign than your own, more ideas, a more effective leader or just did a better job.

In 1996, the only time in history a British Columbia government won without a plurality, Gordon Campbell of the BC Liberals decided to rest on his oars and lost.

Last night's victory by Premier Christy Clark and the BC Liberals will go down in British Columbia political history as one of the biggest upset victories ever.

The charge of fiscal irresponsibility must be faced down, which you can do by pointing out that the BC Liberals have tripled the provincial debt.

The biggest problem with politics in BC is that the BC Liberals are the only «real» choice.

All in all, Kinder Morgan and industry bedfellows have donated almost $ 720,000 to the BC Liberals.

But the corporations gave a lot more money — $ 8 million of the BC Liberals» $ 12 million haul was from company cheque books.

A couple months later, in November, when the Burnaby Mountain standoff was at its peak and protesting residents were being arrested, Kinder Morgan again lobbied the provincial government about its plans for Trans Mountain and, you guessed it, wrote a cheque to the BC Liberals.