Carole James and the NDP – the Real Resume.

Carole James

• Never held a private sector job or managed a payroll, but wants to control B.C.’s $38-billion budget.
• Opposed to the 2010 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games: “I didn’t support the government trying to gain the Olympics.” (CBC radio, Jan. 16, 2004)
• Against the new Port Mann Bridge:  “The wrong bridge and the wrong plan.” (CTV, Sept. 27, 2007)
• Opposed reducing taxes and has stated: “It doesn’t work to make tax cuts.” (CFAX radio, Aug. 6, 2003)
• Doesn’t believe that MLAs should have free votes in the Legislature.
• Wants to rip up the Softwood Lumber Agreement.
• Plans to dismantle the independent power sector, eliminating thousands of rural jobs.
  

Adrian Dix

• Served as top advisor to NDP Premier Glen Clark.
• Played a key role in “Casinogate” by forging a fake memo to try and obscure the facts. 
• During Dix’s tenure as Clark’s advisor B.C. suffered through the Fast Ferry fiasco and the “fudge-it” budget.
• Has called for billions in unfunded health spending, with no plan to pay for it.
  

Mike Farnworth

• Was a key player in “Casinogate” as the NDP minister responsible for gambling.
• Held multiple minister portfolios as part of the disastrous NDP government of the 1990s.
• Served as Minister of Health to the NDP government that cut nurse positions and refused to increase doctor training.
• Backed an NDP scheme to have BC Hydro invest in a power plant in Pakistan that cost taxpayers $11 million.
  

Harry Lali

• Served as NDP Premier Glen Clark’s minister of transportation.
• Under Lali’s term as minister, B.C. lost close to half a billion dollars on fast ferries while highways, bridges and other services were ignored.
• “We know what side we're on…Yes, we're on the side of organized labour.” – Harry Lali, Hansard, April 2, 1997.
• Now claims he supports ending tolls on the Coquihalla, but spent years as Minister of Transportation and never took action to end the tolls.
  

Jenny Kwan

• Served as local government minister under NDP Premier Glen Clark, when more than $800 million of costs were offloaded onto local governments.
• Sat by as funding for cities and towns was gutted 72 per cent under the NDP.
• She was the minister responsible in 1999 who cut grants to local governments $40 million in that year alone.
• As the NDP Volunteer Minister, she did nothing while CUPE prevented parents from volunteering in school activities.
• Led a 10-person junket to England in 1999 that cost taxpayers $70,000 and produced no results.
• Kwan was Minister of Municipal Affairs during the Leaky Condo Inquiry debacle.
  

Maurine Karagianis

• Was a political operative for three NDP Ministers in the disastrous NDP government of the 1990s.
• Opposes removing Coquihalla tolls: “I’m not hearing rural and Northern communities asking for the tolls to be lifted off the Coquihalla.” (Global TV, Sept. 26, 2008)
• Has stated she wants to see vehicle tolls “system-wide” in the Lower Mainland.
• In 1996 Karagianis spearheaded an effort to stop an 11-storey seniors' complex proposed by the Salvation Army that would have included market housing, seniors housing and low income housing.
  

John Horgan

• Served as top operative to NDP Premier Dan Miller.
• Was a political advisor for three NDP Ministers in the disastrous NDP government of the 1990s.
• Formed IdeaWorks Consulting in 2002 with other senior NDP government staffers Ian Reid, Carole James’ chief-of-staff, and John Heaney, former deputy minister and communications consultant during the Bingogate scandal.
• Horgan and IdeaWorks aggressively campaigned in 2003 to convince Vancouver city council to lift its moratorium on slot machines. 
• Wants to put an end to B.C.’s green independent power industry, stopping billions in investment and thousands of rural jobs.
  

Leonard Krog

• Served as MLA during the disastrous Harcourt NDP government .
• Strong support for higher taxes: “ I haven't seen anyone die of over-taxation in this province.” – (Hansard, April 1, 1993)
• Defended the fudge-it budget and the NDP’s terrible fiscal record, “I am here bragging a little bit about one of our strengths, and that is an incredible fiscal management record...” (Hansard, March 28, 1995)
• Ran and lost against Carole James in the 2003 BC NDP leadership race. 
• Exploded at the past-president of the B.C. old age pensioners when he asked what Krog intended on doing for seniors if nominated leader: “Look! With great respect sir, if you’d look at the damned agenda you’d see that we have to get our closing statements…so shut the hell up and I’ll talk to you outside!” (Courier-Islander, Sept. 17, 2003)
• Doesn’t have confidence in his own leaders' ability to run the economy: “Carole [James] has to work harder at showing what our plan would be versus Campbell's.” (Nanaimo News Bulletin, Nov. 26, 2008)
  

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