Recently a member of the public met with MLA Marvin Hunt. Lets consider Marvin Hunt to be speaking on behalf of the BC Liberals. Taken in this way he elaborates and provides us more information on the policy platform that the Liberals are working off of. This is interesting information for those tracking government policy and for those needing background information on the Liberals as we enter the Recall campaigns. Here is my take on what Hunt stated and can be considered government policy: In a recent interview one of the members of this site had with MLA Marvin Hunt we get an interesting insight into the Liberal government’s view of numerous issues regarding public education in BC: Since the beginnings of the teachers union - considered to be back in the 1960’s the teachers have never negotiated in good faith and have always forced the government of the day to legislate them back to work. The government is extremely confident that the ruling against them by just one judge, will not stand now that it is being heard by 5 judges. And if the 5 judges rule against the BC government, certainly the 9 judges of the Supreme Court wont, in part, because all of the other provincial governments will have intervener status and the court wont allow the teachers to take away managerial control from the government The government claims that the BCTF never put a proposal document on the table during the labour dispute; everything was verbal so it was unclear what was on or off the table. The government understands that the teachers want more money for schools but teachers are opposed to letting the government grow the economy through resource extraction. The only other way of getting more money for the schools would be to take it from health care, which they are not willing to do. Teachers need to understand that there is just no more money. The answers to school funding lie in increasing efficiency and if the BCTF has its way with class sie and composition language, rural schools will be forced to close. In response to public subsidy of independent schools, the government believes that parents who send their children to independent schools are subsidizing public schools. Also, as a society, the government believes society benefits from the independent schools because they produce our doctors, lawyers and businessmen. They speak of 3-tiers of K-12 schools: public schools, private schools for rich people (these only get funded at 30% of the rate as public schools), and independent schools for other people (these are primarily religious schools and get 50% of the funding of public schools). In regards to reducing corporate tax cuts the government sees this as just another way of saying increasing taxes. If we do that, businesses, other than resource extraction, will leave and our economy will falter. The government believes that the reason BC is developing LNG to sell to China is to do our part to save the world from the dangers of coal and petroleum-based energy. The government’s answer to the need for alternate, sustainable energy - Weve got the Site C Dam.
Posted on: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 14:56:31 +0000
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