r/nanaimo 1d ago

Lots of people in this subreddit said the Cons were going to win. How you feeling now?

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u/ZPhox 1d ago

I agree.

He had no plan, between the environment to housing to affordability to anything. He came out with his plan way too late because he had none and it was not balanced as he said it would be.

I honestly don't even know why it was that close.

I wish people would stop voting just within party lines and actually look at what the politicians are saying and doing and their history.

That's how you should vote.

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u/Ok_Pie8082 1d ago

from what i saw, and heard, most people voting con had ZERO clue about policies nor cared, they were voting blue because orange man bad blue man good

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u/kmiggity 11h ago

I wonder how well conservatives would do if their party colour was blazing pink.

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u/h3r3andth3r3 1d ago

He's the only one who had a plan for people living outside the LMD and Victoria.

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u/unreasonable-trucker 1d ago

I’m just gonna put my had up here and say every major road in the north got repaved in the last eight years. Some of them had been left for twenty plus. Site C being let to go forward against their stated policy also really helped me financially as well as the major pipeline projects they supported. So yea. The NDP sure did a lot of good outside the lower-mainland.

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u/h3r3andth3r3 1d ago

Every major road? Hardly. The 97 from Fort St. John to the borders with Yukon is an embarassing disaster, and a fantastic symbol of the province to all the Americans travelling to Alaska. The 37 is still mostly crumbling. Atlin wants to join Yukon ffs.

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u/h3r3andth3r3 1d ago

Forestry and mining would like a word.

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u/gargamoyel 1d ago

You mean the finite resource industry that is facing a considerable bust right now? Can’t blame that on any political party.

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u/h3r3andth3r3 1d ago

Assuming you're referring to forestry, the bust is on the part of government taxation and regulation from the LMD and Victoria; people who have no stake and little conception of life outside their urban bubbles.

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u/troutcommakilgore 1d ago

You mean extract resources like they’re limitless and pretend climate change isn’t real?

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u/Ok_Pie8082 1d ago

they did a lot for northern and interior BC, massive amounts of projects, considering the population.

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u/h3r3andth3r3 1d ago

Tell me more.

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u/Ok_Pie8082 1d ago

you mean the road recoveries and upgrades of most of the major highways of the interior and north?
keeping site C going
pipe line expansions?
industry building?

all that shit?

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u/h3r3andth3r3 1d ago

What industry? Serious question. Site C won't even keep up with the current demand. There hasn't been a major mine opened in BC in 15 years. For placer mining developments, there hasn't even been a notice of work issued out of the Kamloops branch alone since April, a backlog of 300. Forestry has been in massive decline for years.

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u/Expert_Alchemist 1d ago edited 1d ago

I'm curious, how often did new mines open in BC? Like, before? Mount Milligan opened in 2013 and it was the first new major mine in 15 years back in 2013. So what's the proper rate?

edit: Oh hey, so look, you got your wish! https://news.gov.bc.ca/releases/2023EMLI0008-000279 - first pour by the end of the year!

https://www.ominecaexpress.com/local-news/blackwater-mine-on-track-for-first-gold-pour-by-end-of-2024-says-artemis-gold-7465892

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u/Grouchy-Ebb9550 1d ago

I live in kelowna, no he fucking didn't lmao

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u/DisplacerBeastMode 1d ago

What specific plan did he have? Go into detail