A Closer Look: Jody Paterson

David Eby claims to be heartbroken. Well, cry me a river, buddy, because that was the most tone-deaf reign and election campaign I’ve seen in a long time. And now look at what’s happened. Who were the man’s political advisors? Whoever they are, it will be best for any future political hopeful to avoid them like the plague. They remind me of a particular phase of “Young Liberals” in BC, when boys who knew nothing about anything were pulling stupid stunts with a kind of Watergate-lite feel to them. Ugh. As for Eby, he has been a crushing disappointment for people like me for a while now. But to then run a campaign that alienates your traditional voter base in order to court voters who are never going to choose the NDP – wow. Ivory towers, emperors without clothes, closed-loop cabals of young advisors with political science degrees and zero world experience – such things have come to my mind routinely throughout these past four years as I wondered what the hell Eby was thinking. I don’t k...

NDP: Please don't leave us with no one who gives a damn With all due respect to a woman who I personally like, there’s a burning question I need to get off my chest: Where the heck are Carole James and the NDP? I get that a party has to change with the times. The New Democrats know that if they’re to stand a chance of getting elected in 2013, they’ll need to convince the electorate they care as much about the economy as the Liberals do. But the party’s attempts to morph into Liberal lite have left no one in the legislature to champion the cause of human beings - not just as units of production, but as regular people trying to get through their lives. It ought to be pretty obvious to us that we all need to care about such things if we’re genuinely going to build B.C.’s economy. The essence of a healthy economy is a skilled, healthy populace who can provide all the brains, brawn and investment capital needed to ensure prosperity long into the future. Virtually all of us will find ou...