Unprincipled

John Cummins may be stubborn, but that doesn’t make him principled.

If John Cummins claims that the province isn’t conservative enough, why did he vote for the socialist NDP? Cummins voted for a party that opposed every tax cut brought in since 2001, that proposed over $1-billion in new taxes and over $3.6-billion in new spending in 2009, and that is currently promising new spending to the tune of $15-billion! Is that principle, or stubbornness?

John Cummins also claims that British Columbians don’t earn enough, but he opposes increases to the minimum wage so that BC no longer has the dubious distinction of having the lowest minimum wage of any of the ten provinces. All the while, he collects a federal pension of over $100,000 per year. What principle is he protecting here, exactly?

He wants you to think he is a champion of free-enterprise, but he spent at least the last five years opposing policies that have diversified British Columbia’s economy from the US to fast growing economies in Asia. The policies that John Cummins opposed have ensured that BC has been sheltered from the economic downturn in the United States:

• The Pacific Gateway program (johncummins.ca, May 7/09)
• The Deltaport Expansion (johncummins.ca, Mar 22/07)
• Port Metro Vancouver merger (Delta Optimist, Jun 23/07)

Managing this province’s economy during these troubled economic times requires a serious, free-enterprise government. John Cummins’ stubborn refusal to take advantage of new markets is not a principled position, it’s just plain reckless.