Time for a Revolution in BC?

Gordon Campbell’s BC Liberal government has lost any legitimacy it had. Campbell’s approval rating is in free-fall and is now in the mid thirties. The majority of eligible voters didn’t even bother to cast a ballot in the last election and just under half of the ones that did voted for the Liberals. Now it is becoming clear that this election was won under false pretenses. The Liberals lied during the election about their intention to bring in the new Harmonized Sales Tax and they also deceived the public about the actual state of affairs in this province. They prevented a welfare report from being released before the election, they prevented healthcare budgets from being released before the election and it is looking like they even destroyed emails that were requested by the court for the BC Rail trial. This is an illegitimate government.

One has to question a democratic process that is conducted in an atmosphere of misinformation. When politicians deliberately hide important information that may change the outcome of an election and blatantly lie to the public about that information, then win the election on a razor-thin margin, we have a right to demand the removal of that government. Gordon Campbell’s administration has done exactly that. Only weeks after the election, they announce they will be implementing a tax that nine out of ten British Columbians oppose – what’s worse, they specifically said during the election campaign that they had no plans to do it!

It is time for the people of this province to start thinking about ways of removing this illegitimate government from power. We cannot afford to wait another four years to toss these crooks out on their rear ends. An escalating protest movement involving mass demonstrations and strikes could achieve this. If the labour leaders were prepared to lead this movement, it would be achieved in fairly short order. And if Campbell had even a shred of integrity left in him, he would call an election immediately to test his real agenda before the public. I think we all know what the results of that election would be.