BC - We have a billion extra dollars - What do you want to do with it?

[yvr girl]

The BC finance minister wants to know!

[Maple]

1. Pay down debt

and move to the new economy...and become a 'have' province again.

There's only 2 of us right now, and we need you back.

[tuvor]

12. That was my first thought.

Alberta (my home province) is in a good place right now, and that's where you have to begin.

[Mojambo]

2. 420. n/t

[HEyHEY]

3. Buy HEyHEY a new car! Or buy our votes!

Nothign too pricy, maybe just a ferrari.

Or they could pay down the debt.

[camero]

4. Actually finance health care

All of Campbell's yapping about Ottawa paying for Pharmacare when he has $1 billion to fund it for his province is kind of idiotic to say the least.

[Spazito]

5. Hmmm, a billion extra dollars usually means they want to call an...

election. I might be a wee bit cynical but when prov governments actually ask us for our view it means they want to know how to buy us off in an election with promises they don't fulfill.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

6. I doubt you do.

And if you do, it's been swindled.
I don't trust these socred bastards with anything.

[yvr girl]

7. Well technically, there are no Socreds

Our current government is Liberal. But this is BC. Nothing whackier than our provincial politics.

[Screaming Lord Byron]

8. I know they call themselves Liberals.

But they're still Socreds.

[Spazito]

10. Correction, the correct term is "retread Socreds" lol

The so-called "Liberals" are indeed the old Socreds, they don't even hide it anymore.

We don't have much choice here, either the NDP party of former Clark, nothing has really changed there or the right-wing faux Liberals. I am really disappointed that the NDP, even under a new leader, has done nothing to distance itself from the Clark policies and practices.

I would give anything for a real left party, one that would have a credible chance of winning.

[Hand]

9. We'll take it (NS)!

Our wretched excuse for a premier, John (Harris-wannabe) Hamm, has been whining up a storm lately about how the feds are obliged to give him more money to solve all his problems. Unluckily for him, you can't buy your way out of being a pernicious tight-arsed, ignorant, racist booby.

:evilgrin:

[canuckforpeace]

11. Healthcare

Since they got this billion by privatizing healthcare services and downsizing the public service. I heard a radio report the other day that the new privatized housekeeping services don't change the sheets after every patient that comes through emergency. I'm not kidding.:puke: