May 11, 2005
VANCOUVER – The NDP candidate for Shuswap has not only refused to apologize for comments attacking foreign investment in British Columbia, he has re-confirmed the NDP’s opposition to key foreign investments from Asia in our province, said Richard T. Lee, BC Liberal candidate for Burnaby North.
“We have made real progress bringing foreign investors and immigrants back to B.C. after the NDP drove them out of our province for 10 years,” said Lee. “To have NDP candidates making such reckless comments is a disturbing hint at what is to come if the NDP forms government. It’s a stark reminder that the NDP would wreck B.C.’s economy again.”
Last week, NDP Shuswap candidate Calvin White said,
“I am absolutely opposed to increasing in any way foreign control of any public property in this province.” White then specifically said he was opposed to “a Chinese enterprise that wants to buy mineral rights in the north of the province.”
Last night on CBC News, White confirmed this position:
“I said ‘I don’t care whether it’s an American company that is going to buy a third of BC Hydro or if a Chinese corporation wanted to buy the land in Northern BC’, what’s BC should stay BC.”
“This is the same old NDP that imposed the corporate capital tax and drove away foreign investment,” said Lee. “If the NDP get another chance they will take us backwards again.”
