Archive - Nov 2005

The changes to the makeup at the council chambers and at school board are slight yet significant. It will be especially interesting to see how a couple of individuals perform in their fulcrum roles at both school board and council.

On the Provincial front the fulcrum collapsed and a deal went south. The recent salary thing with Bill 17 is a beauty. The conversation on this is not over, not by a long shot. I can hardly wait to watch it come up again when the BCGEU contracts come up for renewal in 2006. Do you think that the Carol James flip flop is going to do any good for the average health care worker or liquor store employee when its their time to bargain for a raise let alone a contract? I don't think so.

And, I don't think it fair to whine about 15% pay increases if it brings our community representatives up to a wage that they may benefit from in the private sector. Our MLA's don't have normal jobs. Anybody that tries to make a comparison to life in the real world is deluding themselves.