Vernon Morning Star: February 26, 2009 6:00 PM
The North Okanagan’s struggling economy will be front and centre when a senior B.C. politician makes a stop today. Carole James, NDP leader, will host a roundtable discussion on the economy at the Village Green Hotel at 4 p.m. “She’s trying to get the pulse of the community in terms of job losses,” said Mark Olsen, the party’s candidate for Vernon Monashee. “She wants to hear from the workers impacted and the public is invited to attend.” Since last fall, the Owens-Illinois glass plant and Bigfoot Industries have closed their doors, and employees at Tolko’s Lavington mill are currently laid off indefinitely. New home construction has also tumbled in Vernon. “People are losing their homes because they don’t have work. We need job creation. That’s our focus,” said Olsen. Part of the roundtable discussion will allow workers to provide information on the challenges they have faced since being laid off. “How is this affecting their lives? Is Employment Insurance there for them? That’s a federal issue but something needs to be done,” said Olsen. Olsen is also urging people to bring ideas of how the economy went off track and what can be done to create employment. “We have to see what people want done for the economy.”
3 comments:
Perhaps a simple economics course would be best for the NDP.
No Sales, No Jobs. But then that might be to simple for them to understand.
Examples of NDP past fiscal management, such as Fast Ferries, Skeena Cellulose and expropriation of Senior Citizen operations.
Summarized, the NDP is like GM, reality past them by years ago.
The last comment is so pathetic and must have been written by a Liberal.Regardless,both parties have been terrible-the NDP when they governed on a/c of their inability to control expenditures and now the liberals with their phony estimates of costs-whether it be the Olympics,the trade centre,and their devious system with public private partnerships for the health care system and our local MLA who has done nothing for Vernon.
Dear anonymous, I am not a Liberal (see my comments re: Heritage Sites).
As to the Olympic's and their costs, I recall Mike Harcourt and his merry band of thieves ranting and railing about Expo 86 in the same manner.
But if it hadn't been for Expo 86 and the investment that followed, particularly by the Chinese people BC would have been a basket case.
So there maybe a similar benefit to follow the Olympics, but most people are myopic in the short term.
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