Wednesday, June 17, 2020

The Dean Takes To His Lazy-Boy.

RehashDoesNotEqual
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After spending most of his most recent column rehashing the reportage of Lori Culbert and Dan Fumano on the BC Financial Services Authority preliminary report regarding the steep rise of condo/strata insurance costs, the VSun's Vaughn Palmer ends thing with the following:

...A final report is due in the fall, meaning any legislative recommendations would be put off until 2021 at the earliest.
But the New Democrats, having promised to improve housing affordability, can’t afford to wait until the new year and another round of punishing premium increases for strata owners and renters.
James announced Tuesday that when the House sits next week, the government will announce some short-term relief while awaiting the final report in the fall...


To which we can only ask...
Why can't the New Democrats afford to wait?

And, if the Dean of the Legislative Press Gallery really wants to go there, wouldn't answering that question actually be a real column?



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Of course, as you might expect, there is now....This.


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5 comments:

Eleanor Gregory said...

Maybe his answer would be "because".

RossK said...

Ha!

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Lew said...

Maybe the NDP should just privatize condo insurance. Oh wait...

RossK said...

Lew--

Are you suggesting that the fine folks screeching for the end of ICBC while simultaneously calling for a public bailout of strata insurance are displaying cognitive dissonance?

The thing is....Given that they know that the very serious people that answer to....errr...work with the likes of the Dean won't ever seriously call them on it why should they care?


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Lew said...

For too long, Mr. Palmer’s “best before” date has been...before.