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Originally Posted by casper
I am familiar with the Comfort Inn in Victoria. I know the former general manager (her father owned the building) when it was a hotel. The family made out well selling it to the Province at the start of COVID. During the first two years of COVID the last thing you would want to have owned was a hotel and would have needed deep pockets to make it through that period.
I also live near another hotel (that was temporarily leased by BC Housing) and now is back to being a hotel. That property required extensive renovation to get it back in a state that it could be used as a hotel again.
I think there is a broad fentanyl/opioids issue across North America. The NDP did not create that problem. We can debate if their strategy was more or less effective in addressing the issue than other regions. I look at the Lighthouse in downtown Saskatoon, and it is the same issue under a far more right leaning administration.
So what exactly are the BC Conservatives going to do to fix the problem that the NDP is not doing already. They policy talks about hiring more police, increasing sentencing guidelines, having mandatory mental health treatment, etc. Basically what the US has been doing. How well has that worked for the US?
I agree there is a problem. Just not convinced they have a better plan. More wishful thinking than anything else. If we lock up more people for longer, things will get better. Not convinced that works.
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The NDP did cause these problems by approving open drug use, as well as the catch-and-release programs over their eight years of rule, among many other damaging policies. Even though they back-tracked on open drug use during the final year of their tenure, many feel that the act was just a desperate ploy to attract votes. I do not think they are accountable for their actions, and neither are they introducing policies to enforce the law to massively reduce street lawlessness and crime. Overall, I just don't feel that the NDP is serious in tackling these issues.
Of course, like many others, I am hoping a new administration can do better in these areas. At this point, no one can say the Conservatives are unable to pull it off since they haven't been a government in this province for decades, and it seems that many are not even going to give them a chance to prove themselves.
You may think that the drug/fentanyl problem is a North American problem affecting everyone equally. The fact is that it is disproportionately affecting our province more than others. Visiting Toronto, Montreal or Calgary, one just don't feel the degree of rot that we are seeing in our own cities.
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