Voting in Colombie-Brittanique

Aw right, peoples.

Here are some HAWT issues for the BC Elections.

1/ Why is there is no respite care for people with IQ just over 70? This one is just weird.

2/ What about a GMO food registry, under the Ministry of Health? Or agriculture, more logically. People have been crying about this for the past ten years. Why are our genetically modified foods not being tracked by the government? GMO foods are a giant sellout on the premise that we can have an intact food supply in the future; they invade the gene pool of the natural landscape, and they are frequently big producers but not as nutrient rich as traditional foods. The food is not only way poorer quality; it isn't maintaining our resource heritage in the long term.

3/ User fees in provincial parks. Parking meters, camping fees. Why, oh why? Basically if you're some university student or welfare chequer or minimum wager you can't go out to the wildlands and play? Even if you're normal, are you going to walk your dog at Goldstream every day if people have to pay for such things?

4/Tuition fees. Why are students paying TWICE as much as when I started Uni? I had a friend who used to pay for her courses with her credit card and try and pay down the debts over the summer. It was a brutal, stressful way to get an education. And she worked during school, and she worked after school, and she worked all summer. She had two different jobs and took five courses a semester. She never had time to talk, eat, or sleep. In fact, if you need more sleep rather than less, you'd basically have to drop out of school in that situation. The number of low income people needing student loans has dropped twenty percent. Because they're just not going to school. So what gives?

5/Public-private partnerships on university campuses.

6/River and stream protection. Like the Navigable Waters Protection Act. Why was this allowed to be dismantled? These laws have been on the books since the 1800s. Our rivers will never be the same again. One hundred years from now, we will absolutely regret this decision.