• The Liberal government held a divisive and pointless public referendum on the First Nations treaty process – interpreted widely by BC natives as an expression of racial prejudice.

• Health care was targeted early as part of a relentless drive for privatization of public services. Workers’ wages were cut and union contracts were illegally terminated. This was overturned by courts at great taxpayer cost.

• Crown corporation BC Ferries was subjected to a radical privatisation makeover without public consultation while Liberals waged a distracting vendetta against the ‘fast ferry fiasco’ with the NDP as scapegoat. The result is a private monopoly with extreme fare hikes legislated to focus punishment on the ferry dependent (minor-route) communities.

• The Government introduced a plan to privatise the Coquihalla Highway. The attempt failed in the face of public rage and rejection.

• The Child Advocacy Officer was removed, despite public outcry, and a child-protection scandal ensued, following the disclosure that hundreds of un-investigated child-death records were lost or left in an unsecured warehouse.

• The Liberal government has continued support for open-pen fish farms despite recommendations to change methods and practices in a report from a BC Government commission under John Fraser, appointed by the Premier.

• Liberal government performed a makeover and downgrade of the environmental protections for commercial logging on public land with the termination of the Forest Practices Code replaced by ‘results based’ model. Read more »