Now that the provincial election is over and the socialists have been stopped at the gates, now we should worry about our home-grown socialists in the City.
It shouldn't be a mystery to anyone who is on the North Shore that the City is run by a NDPers. It's easy to see the unregistered slate of Mussatto and Keating joined by whoever they are running this time. I like to call them Vision North Vancouver as there is not much difference between high-school buddies Mussatto and Robertson. At least Robertson honestly declares his municipal party.
Provincial politics are the parents of municipal politics and its the best way of generally knowing what a candidate actually believes in as citizens get very little information on Council candidates.
In the City we have 4 councillors who support the NDP and 3 who support the BC Libs. Of civic politics muddies it as development issues also split the axis of Council into a pro-development and anti-development.
In the District, there are 7 supporters of the BC Liberals. With 86,000 residents in the District and 52,000 in the City, it is easy to understand why Mussatto and his party is so vehemently opposed to amalgamation of the City and District.
We live in a rich city but overtaxed city as the NDP councillors, frustrated by all the socialist initiatives the provincial government refuses to do, takes the opportunity to spend millions of dollars outside their jurisdiction.
They accept million of dollars from developers, call them a community amenities but rather than designate the money (over $10 million in the Onni/Safeway case) to actual community amenities that the whole populace can benefit from, it goes to the local service non-profit industry that thrives on City funds.
Had all the amenity funds been directed toward Harry Jerome, we would have it, we would have broken ground now and had most of it paid for.
We could have gone a little slower on Harry Jerome but sold the adaptive housing units to BC Housing for let's say 3 million and still ensured that the BC Housing did the job that they are supposed to do. The same with the daycare units. The concept of "value for money" is foreign to these NDP politicians, using our money buy votes and turnout at a public hearing is not.
A lot more on this matter to follow, including the Kimpton case study.
