LINOVille
Well, well, well.
It looks last week's British Columbia throne speech was, indeed, sent aloft with a considerable amount of hot, CO2-laden air:
VICTORIA, CP, Feb 18th/07 -- There won't be a lot of green in Tuesday's B.C. budget, but it still boasts a nice colour, says Finance Minister Carole Taylor.
B.C.'s books are firmly in the black, she said.
Taylor wouldn't reveal the exact amount of the surplus, but suggested it's above the $2.15 billion forecast last fall.
"We will have a surplus," she said.
Taylor was tight-lipped about what she will do with the surplus.
She said last week there wouldn't be any money in this year's budget to fund the ambitious green plan the government laid out in its throne speech, rankling environmentalists that have been cheering the plan.
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Taylor said it will take most of the coming year for the government to assess the costs of it's plan to cut greenhouse gas emissions by one third by 2020, among other measures.
It is the most ambitious plan in Canada and rivals the energy plan announced earlier this year by California.
Campbell has invited California's Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to B.C. to work on a West Coast green plan. Schwarzenegger, a former bodybuilder and movie star, has accepted an invitation to visit British Columbia.
Now, if one was going to be generous, one would also point out that, in addition to the groping of the Gropinator by Mr. Campbell, Ms. Taylor is also dangling a significant hike in Welfare rates, made possible by our 'strong economy', in front of our crossed and bloodshot eyes.
However, given their track record, I am much more inclined to think this is actually a two-pincered P.R. version of the Schlieffen Plan in which GordCo MarkIV's Spinmeisters are attempting a sneak attack from both sides of the Progressive divide such that they can then sucker punch us until we go........ 'Down Like Frazier!' (again).OK?
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