GovernmentForTheFew
ByTheFewerVille
From the MoCo, Lotuslandian division:
The provincial government has proposed legislation to expand ICBC's ability to refuse driver's licences to those in debt.
The insurance company is already able to withhold licences from people who owe money, such as toll fees, but the new bill — if passed — would be a "last-resort measure" to collect on outstanding court fines or student loans in default...
Of course, what young people actually want, and/or who they might vote for, is also a reason why the chosen few will sometimes do their darndest to make sure they don't.
Vote that is.
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As for the chosen few's spokesthingy's explanation about why this due process subverting, collection agency fascism rising business is no big deal?...As you might expect, Mr. Farrell has more on that.
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Let’s Be Careful Out There…
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8 comments:
What’s next? Seniors who can’t pay their MSP premiums denied a driver’s licence? Anyone who owes the government money for any reason forced into labor on the Site C dam to work off their debt?
As only the BC Liberals can attract them, here comes another Charter challenge.
Lew--
Site C debtors' prisons.
Gosh.
I wonder what spiffy name the wizards will come up with.
(And I agree, I can't see how this could possibly withstand a serious Charter challenge...So...What focus/poll/demographic slice-and-dice is behind this codswallop anyway?)
Australia has MANDATORY voting...
Look into what those fine folks keep doing to themselves.
For a long time now, talk about equality of 'condition' has been derided as a fringe position in Canada. But the liberal notion of equality of 'opportunity' has long been the mainstream, majority view. Access to education has been a key policy response by politicians (of all stripes). Surely, Clark and Wilkinson- and their offensive, condescending remarks- reflecting a minority perspective. I know that I would never have been able to attend university had I been born 30 years later. It infuriates me that this profoundly elitist policy seems to go unchallenged!
Point taken Anon-Above--
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Glen C--
I fear the situation would have been the same for me as well (re: being born a generation or so later).
What really disturbs me is how many people from our generation who benefited so much from the equality of opportunity principle are now willing to allow (and even cheer for) all this ladder puller-upping.
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Not certain you are right. Maybe i'm a pollyanna, but I'm convinced Canadians still support educational access. Maybe they don't vote that way cause no one is taking up the case. Or taking up the case effectively.
Hope you're right...My sample size for direct knowledge is small...But when I hear some of the things that my colleagues utter, well...
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