British Columbia Moderate Democratic Movement
The British Columbia Moderate Democratic Movement was a minor political party in the Province of British Columbia, Canada.
- In 2004, it joined with the British Columbia Democratic Alliance, the Citizens Action Party and Link BC to form the British Columbia Democratic Coalition.
- This coalition merged with the Reform Party of British Columbia and All Nations Party of British Columbia on January 15, 2005 to form a new, centrist political party, the Democratic Reform British Columbia.
Despite this, the BCMDM nominated two candidates in the 2005 BC election: James Solhiem won 123 votes (0.61% of the total) in the riding of Chilliwack-Sumas, and David Michael Anderson won 235 votes (1.20% of the total) in Chilliwack-Kent.
The party was de-registered by Elections BC in July 2008.
Platform[edit]
The platform proposes:[1]
- Education
- forgivable student loans to cover tuition]fees for B.C. residents
- increased funding for school boards
- greater autonomy for school boards to create new programs, subject to provincial standards
- Healthcare
- paying practitioners for "promotion of wellness rather than the treatment of disease"
- creating regional treatment centres covering all stages of care from diagnosis to treatment
- Economics
- a B.C. business development bank to assist the creation of new businesses
- an "Idea Development Centre" to help entrepreneurs develop business plans and gain funding
- Governance
- opposing the privatization of public assets, and returning already-privatized assets to public ownership
- requiring all Members of the Legislative Assembly to attend monthly town hall meetings in their communities
- increased transparency, including access to information measures making all government, Crown corporation and public-private partnership records open to public inspection
- laws to hold public officials accountable for what the party called "fiscal mismanagement and misleading budgets"
- Justice
- to "ensure violent offenders are removed from our streets"
- increased use of restorative justice, halfway houses, and intense supervision for first-time non-violent offenders
- Forestry
- ensuring raw logs are processed in the community in which they were produced
- funding forest management to prevent and control wildfires
- ending the "self-policing" of forestry companies
- Environment
- maintaining the ban on bulk water exports
- funding scientific research as the basis for all environmental decisions
- increasing penalties for environmental violations, and putting funds raised directly into park maintenance and habitat protection
- investing in pollution control research
- BC Hydro
- "fairly priced electricity" through investment in new generating facilities for BC Hydro, to replace aging facilities nearing the end of their life
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ The BCMDM's platform Archived April 14, 2005, at the Wayback Machine
External links[edit]
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