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From: acton@ubc-cs.UUCP (Donald Acton)
Newsgroups: net.politics,can.politics
Subject: Re: The McGeer Connection
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Date: Wed, 16-Oct-85 00:47:38 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 16 00:47:38 1985
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Reply-To: acton@ubc-cs.UUCP (Donald Acton)
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Summary: 

>In article <10652@ucbvax.ARPA> mcgeer@ucbvax.UUCP (Rick McGeer) writes:
>             ...  I lived in British Columbia most of my life, including the
>three years it was under the NDP: BC still hasn't fully recovered from the
>ravages of the Barrett government....

The NDP (socialists) have been out of power now for over ten years and
I find it hard to believe that any of their policies are responsible for
the current economic conditions in BC. If any of the NDP's policies are 
responsible, then the fault lies with the ruling Social Credit Party for
failing to modify or eliminate those policies over the past ten years.
But what about the glory years in the late 70's and early 80's when the 
BC economy was booming and everything looked great? Surely those years 
must have been the result of the previous NDP rule if the problems 
of today are still their fault.  I tend to think not.

I subscribe  to the theory that at least part of BC's problems are due
to the economic conditions of the world as a whole and are not exactly
under our control.  Unfortunately our problems in BC were exacerbated  
by a Liberal government under Pierre Trudeau who didn't care about what 
happened in western Canada. Come to think of it since the NDP are just 
'Liberals in a hurry' maybe you are right and we still haven't recovered 
from NDP rule. :-)

  Donald Acton