To the editor:
John Horgan became British Columbia NDP leader on May 4, 2015.
His main objective was to deliver on his promise of a jobs plan.
This was his opportunity to set a new path and show he could actually come up with a plan that supports economic growth, but that has not happen.
He hasn’t been able to tell his party how he would create jobs and only has mentioned a list of spending habits and old ideas recycled from the 1990s.
He has the reputation now of being Dr. No.
He says “no” to the first 600 jobs in the first 100 days of the Site C Dam.
He says “no” to the 10,000 jobs over next 10 years at Site C project.
He says “no” to expanding mining and no to liquefied natural gas.
While the NDP party may have thought it was regenerating with a new leader, it seems only the face is different.
Horgan claims his NDP wants to focus on skills training, but omits job-creation ideas.
The NDP plan is to train people for jobs anywhere else but B.C.
It is a major disappointment Horgan is unable to deliver on his promise to lay out a plan to deal with energy.
As columnist Mike Smyth commented in The Province, NDP MLA’s Rob Fleming and David Eby are sitting at the gates to try for the title of B.C. NDP leader.
Joe Sawchuk
Duncan
