There is absolutely no point in trying to address the growing environmental crisis, regardless which of the veritable smorgasbord of critical issues most concerns you, with top down political and economic solutions. The reason that there is no point is because there is about as much chance of those solutions making a difference as there [...]

The International Monetary Fund is calling on the G20 governments to impose a new bank tax to help pay for the bailouts and deficits caused by the global financial crisis. Our Finance Minister Flaherty is rallying Canadians in support of the banks as though we should be defending against an assault on our national hockey [...]

As the Campbell Liberals get ready to invoke closure on the debate surrounding the HST, the rumblings about forming a new political party are getting louder and no one should be surprised.
Back in the day, more than a decade ago when I was the Minister of Aboriginal Affairs, the BC Liberals were mounting an all-out [...]

The struggle to preserve agricultural land in British Columbia can be traced back to a fundamental flaw in the BC Land Commission Act and the establishment of the Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR).
This should be clear when one observes that many of the people who are lobbying hardest to get their land out of the ALR [...]

The most egregious legacy of successive federal and provincial governments is the failure to properly protect and expand Canada’s agricultural land base and with it, a viable and expanding primary and value-added food production industry.
For me, the most disturbing part of this failure is the complacency shown by so many British Columbians who at best [...]