Over at CityCaucus.com - former BC Attorney-General Geoff Plant says: Lots of people will bring forward lots of spending ideas but we must ask - how will we, as a society, determine which ideas go forward and which ones will be deferred to future years - read here
Meanwhile - veteran Vancouver Sun political columnist Vaughn Palmer says if John Cummins wants to cut taxes like the Carbon Tax and reduce spending and be taken seriously as a 'government-in-waiting' like the opposition BC New Democrats - his party (BC Conservatives') will have to have, like the BC NDP, a fully costed platform to show to the voters' of BC for the 2013 Provincial Election -read here
Finally - former NDP MLA David Shreck looks at the narrow focus of Christy Clark's government - read here
Editor's Note - on John Cummins and his promises to reduce spending -- given health-care/education comprise nearly 70% of the total BC Budget -- I think his government (should that be the decision of voters in 2013) are going to have an extremely difficult time making ends meet, given all of the various other needs that come up at budget time. The only way I can see Mr. Cummins and his party make in-roads on the provincial budget is to ratchet the move towards privatization of health-care and that has been rejected by average BC'ers to date - with both NDP/BC Liberals' provincial governments in place over the last 30 years...
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