Premier Campbell
How is he faring so far?

Depends on who you talk to.

Since we brought the Premier into office, he has cut senior's bus passes, raised our provincial sales tax to 7.5% (doesn't that round off to eight?), raised medical plan premiums by 50% and continues to displace seniors by closing nursing homes.

Clawbacks in social assistance, a health restructuring plan which includes hospital and bed closures, scaled back Pharmacare, health care worker lay-offs and privatization of hospital support services, 17% cuts to community living services for adults and children with disabilities, and our Premier has promised to close 24 court houses, 8 jails, 57 schools province-wide with a projected record debt of $43.9 billion when all is said and done.

But there's more ... the budget to Legal Aid costs (services offered to British Columbians who could otherwise not afford them by the Legal Services Society) will be reduced by 39% over three years. The impact so far is that beginning April 1, 2002, legal aid for human rights matters was eliminated due to funding cuts to the B.C. Human Rights Commission. (see the Affidavit Campaign started by Westcoast Leaf in response).

On the plus side, the Premier re-assures us that the $1.2 to $1.3 Billion price tag for the 2010 Olympics will more than pay for itself in profits. And in the Georgia Straight newspaper's Readers Choice, published in September, 2003, the Premier won over Robert Pickton (the notorious pig farm murderer) and Vancouver City Councillor George Puil, to garner the "Vancouverite Closest To Hell" award (by an almost 50% margin).

Unless you can stomach worse than the above, we recommend that you don't read the sad and tragic article relating to the cuts which affect our poor...
Poor are desperate under B.C. welfare, study finds