Donny van Dyk

Thanks for the comment Thomas!

I think your question is best put “why should I pay for something that I am not going to use?”

First let me say I sympathize with you, as I won’t be attending the Olympics either, and like you, pay a very healthy amount of taxes. However I think it’s important that provincial and federal governments make investments in areas that provide net benefits to the province or country as a whole. I think the Olympics will provide a net benefit to BC, but perhaps not a net benefit to Northern BC. However, the container port in Prince Rupert will provide a net benefit to BC and definitely the Northwest, but less likely to directly benefit someone in Vancouver.... Read More

I guess to summarize, you’re probably not alone in thinking the Olympics is largely about the lower mainland, but the truth is we need to support Vancouver/Whistler’s Olympics, just as we would want them to support our NTL, energy corridor, and container port. That’s what makes us a province and a country; not just a bunch of city/states.

Now I can only hope some of the goodwill generated by the Olympics rubs off and instills a more positive attitude in our local MLA and MP. Maybe then they’ll start looking for solutions to our current challenges, instead of playing the political blame game.

Thousands of jobs? Aren't those jobs just temporary, and then it ultimately only supplies 20-30 jobs in the end? Or was that a different project I'm thinking of?

I think you're figures are off but that isn't the point. Since we were born Darren how many new jobs have been created in Kitimat?

zero

And now that there are billions of dollars in potential investment and many new jobs at our door step, we receive nothing but negativity and barriers to success from our local provincial and federal representatives. It's just really sad :(

Thanks for responding, Donny. I wasn't sure on the figure, I just dislike bold claims of "THOUSANDS OF JOBS CREATED" when it's entirely misleading. However, I know you love clever wording like that, so I'm sure you're quite content.

From what I've researched, the environmental risk of this project far outweighs any benefit from temporary job creation. But I'm sure you could have assumed that I'd see it that way.

Sameer nailed it. Let's not forget that the Income Tax threshold was raised to $11 000 from ~$9300. Hopefully by the time 2013 comes around, people will see that the HST was actually good policy. Sometimes the right decision isn't the most popular.

Say hi to the premier from us!

Hope he has lots of energy, lots of people haven't understood the HST the way it was intended, only choose to read the bad press.

that's not a mistake, steve. that's still about donny.

here here!

haha good roast,good roast!