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Originally Posted by 68style
Granted, I stand by what I said -- if she loses her riding, she will not be premier. At least not for very long... it's way too big of an embarrassment to have the leader of the party not win their riding and there's no legit way to say you deserve to be in that position given that.
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Of course she will, and no it's not - it's happened before, and it's something that's expected to be a possibility in our system... so much so, there's a specific process in place to deal with it: another MLA in a strong Liberal riding steps down, CC takes his seat, and a by-election is held. Now losing THAT vote would be embarrassing... but that's why you choose the riding carefully.
[quote=godwin;8237719]Let me guess, you are too young to remember Glen Clark? Corrupt and Dix+Clark kinda go hand in hand.
A friend was very big the last couple days on admonishing people for bringing up the infamous memo without actually knowing what the memo was about... I say, that's really irrelevant. The issue is that Dix was nailed for and admitted to fraud - the content of the fraud really doesn't matter.
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Film industry.. well that's a race to the bottom. The bottom line is Cdn$ is strong. Industries like games, films etc are getting local gov to outbid each other.. honestly it is not sustainable.
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It amuses me that all these supporters are bitching about the government not helping to keep their employer coming back... how about their employer being a fickle bitch with no interest in them or their jobs, who places the bottom line even above their own souls?
This one's kind of amusing to me, for the fact that the BC ecoweenies aren't screaming about it just as much as they were over the BC route... because, what, if a pipeline break happens in the Yukon, it's going to get into the rivers, and then just STOP when it reaches the BC border? Nevermind the pipeline would have to either cut into BC, or cut across the Alaska panhandle to actually get to the ocean... it's not a problem to BC's coasts if a tanker spill happens there, just as long as the tanker didn't come out of Kitimat? If something is a bad idea because of potential environmental damage, then it's still a bad idea no matter which side of a Provincial border it happens on... right? Or maybe not...
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Originally Posted by 68style
Derp. It was a rhetorical question to highlight my disdain for undereducated females (if you want to defend Shirley Bond and Christy Clark's track records for running ministries into the ground then so be it) being put in positions with way too much power when there are so many better qualified females available in this province.
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As opposed to undereducated males?
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Originally Posted by MindBomber
The College of New Caledonia is a recognized, public post-secondary institution, I see no reason not to count it. Granted, it's small, but it's in a small town, so that's an unfair criticism.
In general, I'm not concerned with the education levels of leadership. I've met enough intelligent, successful business people without post-secondary, and enough fools with post-secondary to show it doesn't necessarily establish intelligence or leadership ability. I'm concerned with a candidates experience, be it through community involvement or work.
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Nailed it. Bringing the level of education into it is retarded. Some of the "smartest" people don't have high-level formal educations.
But if you want to look at it that way, consider Clark's victory speech, which very rightly started off acknowledging ALL those who put their names on the ballots and put themselves out there for all the abuse and back-biting and bullshit that politicians are subjected to - you step up to that plate, you're willingly putting yourself up for ridicule. Maybe all those highly-educated "smart" people are simply too smart to put themselves out there in that way.