Canada is the next Venezuela

Dear Editor:

Here is what I remember about an NDP government.

Year was 1990, approximately, Ontario voters elected Bob Rae and his NDP team.

He spoke well, he looked clean and professional and said all the right things. Once in power, cancelled and changed laws that benefited monopoly unions, teachers’ union and construction unions for negotiation and construction projects.

Sound familiar? Spent taxpayer money like no tomorrow. Sound familiar? However, two years into his spending spree the accounting started to catch up with him.

Economy headed down and costs headed up. He couldn’t please anyone, especially his monopoly unions. Giving these monopoly unions more power comes corruption. With the unexpected help of these monopoly unions threw him and his NDP party into oblivion.

He could not leave his incompetent administration behind him. Rae eventually had to change party and join the liberals. The votes elected the Conservatives and Mike Harris had to come in and clean house as in the past Conservative governments trying to keep Ontario in a sound financial footings.

Now that’s all out the window and other than drastic action all our barely functional government, services will continue to crumble due to coming cost cuts.

Deaths will not be recorded for people waiting for surgery. We will be no better than Venezuela.

Nice work, big spenders. Here are a few words you don’t here in Canada, but you will: Food stamps or food support, housing allowance or rent subsidy. Welcome to the new Canada. Debt will compromise the B.C. heath industry and wait times will keep increasing.

Debt will increasingly compromise our social services industry. Private health care will grow as our social health system continues to crumble. The B.C. courts have supported control of our health system, but it won’t stop it from crumbling.

I leave you with this: Our government has proven over and over again that it has reached level of incompetence and unable to manage taxpayer money.

Wait until bills for ICBC and site C dam show billions wasted on bad management.

You can add another $4 billion to the now spent $12.5 billion of debt.

Let’s set new pay schedule for our politicians. Premier gets $5 million dollars or $10 million. Ministers get $500,000 or $1 million.

Small price to pay for sound financial and services management.

Incompetence will prevail when good people do nothing.

Mike Polvere

Peachland