Does the British Columbia Washington Border Region Coalition have a purpose? As is the case of the Washington British Columbia Border Region Coalition, it is encouraging when good people get involved and pursue tax transfers from government with purpose to better the social, economic and ecological conditions in the community in which they live. It is good when government grants such tax transfers to different interest groups for purposes that meet the standard for government intervention in the allocation and pricing mechanism — the allocation of resources into economic production of product and services in the economy. The problem is when government fails in its monitoring and intervening task, and tax transfers and government intervention does not meet the standard.

Abolishing the Working Opportunity fund 10-year monopoly, a good move. The Provincial Government of British Columbia is abolishing the Working Opportunity Fund 10-year monopoly to manage labour-sponsored funds in the province. That is a positive change, long overdue. The Working Opportunity Fund model does not meet the standards expected from a modem democratic mixed economy. It is also good democracy that the members, taxpayers and government has asked the provincial auditor-general to investigate whether there was undue political involvement in the operation of the Working Opportunity Fund. In that respect, the auditor-general should be busy looking into many past government intervention and deals. Who benefited and who lost? Where did the money go in projects such as the Fast Ferry

Can a ‘conventional fiscal policy approach’ and ‘tax cuts’ solve the strategic issues facing British Columbia in today’s open economic conditions? Previous BC governments failed to detect strategic issues and problems in the allocation and pricing mechanism that regulates the liquidity and money flow in our economy. That includes issues relating to federal tax transfer and intervention in the regional and local economy. Subsequently, they also failed to intervene appropriately before those issues caused adversity and irreparable harm to the community. In good democratic order, the voters reacted and gave the BC Liberals an explicit mandate to reorganize the government’s policies and institutions and to solve the issues that hamper investment in economic production and jobs. Canada and BC’s economy