SOUND OFF: Questioning the NDP’s priorities as health care crumbles
WHILE NDP MLAs ARE LIKELY welcoming the end of the spring legislative session and a break from opposition questioning over their $1 billion Royal BC Museum debacle — they won’t be able to hide from constituents who are also angry about this government’s skewed priorities.
British Columbians can see that the NDP’s business case for this mega-project is full of holes — the most obvious being the lost revenue and opportunity for students and residents for a whopping eight years, if not more. They look next door and see Calgary’s Glenbow Museum being fully renovated for $120 million and in a fraction of the time, and wonder why B.C.’s government can’t be as efficient and responsible.
Many Indigenous communities are also upset by how the government has handled the project thus far. Some have shared that they are furious with the premier for trying to justify this project as a means of achieving reconciliation. They are also angry the government has denied them the necessary funding to repatriate items of important cultural significance to their communities. They also pose the obvious question — why hasn’t the NDP considered funding existing museums or building a handful of regional centres instead of blowing $1 billion on a single museum?
And then there’s the long list of incredibly critical issues across our province that demand prompter attention than a museum rebuilt in the capital. Our crumbling healthcare system is at the very top of that list.
