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Corporations are people too

January 31st, 2010 · Blair Redlin · 2 Comments · Electoral reform, Municipalities, Taxes

Advocates of democratic electoral reform are really out of step. Ideas like proportional representation and advertising spending limits are so retro, so 2004.
The fashionable electoral reform idea this year is to give corporations a real say. It’s time for individual citizens to share their electoral democracy with corporations to give meaning to those old legal [...]

Loukidelis did good work for government accountability. Now it’s a legislative committee’s turn.

January 24th, 2010 · Keith Reynolds · No Comments · Law & legal issues, Transparency & accountability

David Loukidelis, British Columbia’s Freedom of Information Commissioner has accepted the new role as the province’s deputy attorney general. Vaughn Palmer did a good column on the switch in jobs but I thought Loukidelis deserved more credit for his ten years on the job.
Personally, I think Loukidelis’s leadership was almost completely responsible for BC’s FOI legislation keeping [...]

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The recent secretive, haphazard spending cuts should be repealed

September 23rd, 2009 · Iglika Ivanova · No Comments · Children & youth, Economy, Education, Provincial budget & finance, Transparency & accountability, Women

Almost daily we wake up to news of yet another important program or initiative whose funding has been cut by the BC government. Literacy initiatives, high school sports, programs that protect women and children from violence, arts and culture: hardly an area of social service provision has been spared.
These cuts have been devastating to many [...]

Yet another case of our government delaying the release of important data

May 12th, 2009 · Iglika Ivanova · No Comments · BC Election 2009, Media, Poverty, inequality & welfare

Less than a week after BC’s Freedom of Information and Privacy Association (FIPA) report raised serious questions about secrecy in government (see Keith’s comments here), The Tyee reporter Andrew MacLeod has uncovered another case of important statistics not being released on time.
The culprit this time is the Housing and Social Development Ministry, which typically provides [...]

Report finds government stonewalling on FOI requests

May 8th, 2009 · Keith Reynolds · No Comments · BC Election 2009

BC’s Freedom of Information and Privacy Association (FIPA) released a report yesterday showing secrecy in government is even a bigger problem that we thought.
A February report from BC’s Information and Privacy Commissioner’s described what he called, “an unacceptable pattern of govern-wide failure to respond to access requests in as timely a fashion as it should.”
But [...]

The Case Against STV

May 5th, 2009 · Marc Lee · No Comments · BC Election 2009, Electoral reform

More from our BC Commentary special on STV:
The Case Against STV
By David Schreck
Will STV “make your vote count”? Actually, BC-STV can make your vote worth less and make your MLA less accountable. Our existing first-past-the-post (FPTP) system is not perfect, but it is better than BC-STV.
Inequality is inherent in BC-STV. The Northeast (Peace River) would [...]

Seniors' care concerns should be taken seriously in this election

May 1st, 2009 · Iglika Ivanova · No Comments · BC Election 2009, Health care

Access to residential care beds for seniors was dubbed “an election hotspot” by CTV early last week, and for good reasons. The party that forms government after May’s election will have to deal with the pressures that the aging population would put on the already strained system of seniors’ care in BC.
Fundamentally, providing an accessible [...]

Government report on welfare leavers at odds with narrative

May 1st, 2009 · Seth Klein · No Comments · BC Election 2009, Poverty, inequality & welfare

Kudos to the Tyee’s Andrew MacLeod for extracting a long delayed report on welfare leavers from the provincial government. The report can be downloaded here. Andrew’s Tyee article about the report can be found here.
The report uses tax data of BC welfare leavers between 2000 and 2005 to see how people have done. Comparing those [...]

Government compliance with legal obligations "far from good"

February 15th, 2009 · Keith Reynolds · No Comments · BC Election 2009, Transparency & accountability

BC’s Freedom of Information Commissioner released his annual report last Friday. These reports are a pretty good indication of how open and transparent our government is.
The Commissioner is unhappy and he says so in tough language:
The stark fact is that the government’s overall record of compliance with its legal obligations under FIPPA is far [...]

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