In your Vancouver Sun today, veteran political columnist Vaughn Palmer looks at the recently submitted report of BC Ferries Commissioner Gordon Macatee on several issues facing the BC Ferry system and possible solutions including:
* allowing less profitable ferry runs (ie: Gulf Island runs) to be subsidized by more profitable runs (Vancouver-Victoria)
* Focus on protection of ferry users/communities and the taxpayers
* More regulatory powers for the BC Ferry Commissioner
You can read the full column here
Meanwhile in your Vancouver Province - political columnist Mike Smyth looks at the huge cost (estimated at $13 billion, based on an Australian study) on bullying in the workplace and what he thinks BC Premier Christy Clark should do about it
Read more here
Also - BC Premier Christy Clark promises to cut red tape to allow for more quicker mine expansions - read here
Finally - Cariboo-Chilcotin BC NDP Candidate Charlie Wyse weighs on the HST issue once again, challenging the BC Liberals and local MLA Donna Barnett to rid the Province of the HST right now and not months from now - see his letter to the editor in today's Williams Lake Tribune here
Editor's Note - I wonder if the NDP and the anti-HST forces know how incredibly naive they sound by calling for the reversal of the HST forthwith when going from HST back to PST/GST has never been done in this country and because we are talking about tax law here - a thought-out return to the former provincial tax scheme is necessary
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