r/VictoriaBC

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This follows revelations that the candidate, Joachim Agou, promoted violence against protesters and suggested Pakistani immigrants make London a "shithole."

I keep hearing that Victoria is a diverse city on the ferry, at the gym, coffee shops etc,

Close to 85% of Victoria's population is white and another 5% is indigenous, yet i hear in random conversations how the city soo diverse and that the food options are great , etc

Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal are genuinely diverse cities in terms of their population composition. Victoria is still overwhelmingly European/white by comparison.

I'm not saying that's good or bad. It's simply the demographic reality.

I find it interesting that “Victoria is a very diverse city” seems to be treated as an obvious fact when the actual numbers tell a considerably different story.

Considering the deficit is 13B, and if the Conservatives follow through with no new taxes, then obviously that means expect Gordon Campbell style cuts coming when they are back in power. If people are old enough to remember, the government workers have most to fear when about 12k positions were eliminated in 2002. There was also changes to welfare benefits, assistance rules and eliminated programs, msp premium hikes etc... This was all thanks to a landslide victory by then the BC Liberals taking 77 seats who did whatever they wanted without push back.

Of course that proved unpopular though they still won the election 4 years later but losing a lot seats and then another 4 years with CC until it finally came to an end.

This is all in contrast with the NDP announcing taxes on people making more than 190k a year to help pay for healthcare since they'd rather raise taxes on high income earners than go through austerity.

If there's no new taxes then expect very deep cuts which obviously he didn't want to say but is obvious what would happen instead

Lorne Doerkson said in the letter that if elected on Oct. 24, the Conservatives would bring in legislation to restore accident victims’ rights to sue under a new “hybrid system” designed to keep rates affordable, while protecting people.

The interim leader said in the letter that everything is on the table when it comes to auto-insurance, including private competition.

“One thing isn’t up for debate: people seriously hurt by reckless drivers deserve their day in an independent court, not just an online tribunal staffed by government appointees,” he said.

The Insurance Corporation of B.C. is Crown corporation that was established in the early 1970s. It has a monopoly on basic insurance but people can buy optional protection from private agencies.

The NDP government introduced the no-fault insurance system in 2021, that generally prevents car accident victims from suing, in response to what NDP Leader David Eby said was a “financial dumpster fire” at ICBC with losses in the billions.

Doerkson told reporters on Tuesday that the policy is needed to allow people with serious injuries to be properly compensated to manage their post-accident lives.

“Folks have found themselves in a place where they’ve been injured in such a bad way that it is life-altering, and they’re not receiving the supports that they need,” he said. “The reality is, I’m committed to making sure that insurance is affordable for British Columbians, but we need to address both sides of this.”

Eby said during an unrelated news conference that the letter leaked by the union representing ICBC workers shows that Doerkson is pursuing a hidden agenda.

“I am astonished that in a time when families, when drivers are struggling, that he would have a secret plan with trial lawyers to hand over the money from drivers to lawyers,” he said.

But Doerkson said no-fault insurance has been “very challenging” for the residents for multiple reasons.

“Obviously we have to provide affordable insurance coverage for all of our residents, but for those that have experienced catastrophic injury and potentially life-altering injury, this program has not supported them well,” he said at an unrelated news conference in Vancouver.

“And in so many cases, we need to improve that and we absolutely have to contemplate this insurance model.”

Doerkson said he had made “no promises” about the plan.

But in the Sept. 29 letter to the vice-president of the Insurance Bureau of Canada, and the presidents of the Law Society of B.C., the Trial Lawyers Association of B.C., and the Canadian Bar Association, he said new legislation would be passed within a year of the Conservatives being elected.

“Accident victims will get back their right to recover for their serious injuries, and government will get out of the legal profession’s business.” the letter said.

B.C. can look to Ontario, Alberta, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, P.E.I., and Newfoundland and Labrador, which “all have hybrid insurance models.

“We can learn from them and do better,” the letter said.

The NDP said in a statement that trial lawyers have been lobbying to end the no-fault system “that lowered car insurance rates for drivers and has kept them frozen for seven years.”

It describes the Trial Lawyers Association as “the organization representing personal injury lawyers who previously worked on ICBC cases.”

The Conservatives accused Eby of inventing numbers to scare drivers after Eby said that Doerkson’s plan signals a return to the “old style of car insurance” that promised a doubling of rates.”

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Yes I am a member of the Hospital Employees Union. The recorded phone message told me that it took 10 years for the NDP to fix what the Conservatives wrecked in the Health sector and the union wants me and all HEU members to remember that when voting but I am having a hard time figuring out or remembering anything good from the NDP especially in Health

At the Saanich All Candidates Meeting held at Claremont Secondary last night, there was a "lightening round" that very concisely and clearly separated the candidates out into three groups based on the question: what should we do with the pace of construction of bike lanes, make it faster, keep it about the same, slow down or stop it?

I thought it was quite a clever question and format to cut through the messaging from all sides, so I'm sharing the answers here.

Faster
Noah Fruttarol
Mauricio Curbelo
Teale Phelps Bondaroff
Colette Baty
Zac de Vries

About the Same
Colin Plant
Garnett Humenick
Finn Fairbairn
Judy Brownoff
Brendan Ralfs

Slow Down
Susan Brice
Don Cameron
Lorne DeLarge
Harjas Singh Popli
Matt McGeachie
Laurie Lidstone
Jordan Weaver
Nic Renaud
Erin Elizabeth Booth
Alli Deelstra
Sasha Izard
Nathalie Chambers
Nancy Di Castri
Kathleen Burton
Rishi Sharma

If you want to see this part of the debate to double check or see for yourself, it is available at https://www.facebook.com/colinplant2026/videos/1620203699642619, starting at the 1:58:49 mark. Please note, not all candidates were present.

I've developed a new superior-hold, hopefully competition-grade moustache wax, and I'm aiming to have some local moustachiosos test-drive a tin to see if it's as good as I'd like to think it is!

Any fine moustache-havers want to try a free tin of locally-made 'stache wax?

All I ask in return is honest feedback (you can just send me a DM after trying it) to let me know if it holds as well — or hopefully even better — than what you're used to.

It's also made with beeswax from local bees!