I am of course in complete agreement that our education system is drastically underfunded and we definitely need financial solutions that will correlate with our educational decisions that directly involve our children.
I am miffed by the idea that “We have a new government.”
I am responding to the wild idea that people have that with a new premier we have a “new government.”
Where? When? I have a modicum of political savvy, and memory tells me that Gordon Campbell is no longer premier in B.C. and Christy Clark has replaced him.
Every other member is exactly the same, albeit some have a new title.
I also remember the time when the new premier was minister of education.
The tension between her and the BTCF was an acrimonious event. She closed 120 schools in B.C., which was her solution to the financial difficulties of our education system.
I do wonder what has miraculously changed her beliefs after she quit provincial politics in 2004 and lost the nomination in the NPA mayoral race in Vancouver, 2005. Premier Clark also said that there is no need for a public inquiry regarding the Basi-Virk controversy.
The misconception that this is a “new government” is perhaps wishful thinking and people are grasping at straws. Politics makes strange bedfellows
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck…
J. McDonald, Surrey
