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By Doug Collins

ONE MAN'S OPINION

COLLINS: The NDP continues its ignorance

Jul 10, 2025 | 10:57 AM

THE NDP GOVERNMENT OF DAVID EBY continues to try to blind us with BS.

For example, why do politicians and “experts” sitting behind desks in Victoria think they know more than the people in the trenches?

The government continues to postulate that they have developed the best plan they can for the new cancer care facilities at Royal Inland Hospital. In particular, they have thrown us under the bus by refusing to plan for a PET/CT scanner, which would provide state-of-the-art equipment in detecting the presence of cancer cells.

And as most of you know, the government has refused to even provide future space for such a scanner if they didn’t want to put the equipment in right away.

The government claims there is no land space available because the grade of the hillside doesn’t provide the option of a flat space on which to put the scanner, which of course is a crock.

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Perhaps I am too simple-minded to think a solution is possible. But one would think that government could rearrange the plans for the land, possibly to include the development of the adjacent plot of land – land that is already owned by us.

And maybe I’m too simple-minded in believing that if there is construction equipment that can literally move mountains to build highways or build subdivisions on hillsides, that there isn’t a way we could make a flat space in that hillside to allow for a PET/CT scanner.

The cost may increase, but surely it’s worth doing right the first time. If that space isn’t set aside now, we will likely never see a scanner like this in Kamloops.

Costs will soar and it will continue to gather dust on some office shelf until down the road some clerk will look at it, perhaps wonder what it was about, and put it in the shredder. It’ll be evidence of a period in history when a government made yet another blunder and did too much the expedient way and not the right way.

I’m Doug Collins and that’s One Man’s Opinion.

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