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Why are government actions failing to meet the urgency needed to protect wild Pacific salmon?

by adamolsen | May 15, 2024 | 42-5, Blog, Governance, Legislature, Question Period, Video

As the salmon go, we go! It is why I have spent so much time on salmon policy. As the industry is proudly depicted in a mural in the rotunda of the Parliament buildings it has become an example of the boom and bust economy that is the tradition of the British Columbia...

Budget Estimates: Public Safety & Solicitor General moving toward oversight of BC Conservation Service

by adamolsen | May 14, 2024 | 42-5, Blog, Estimates, Governance, Legislature, Video

In final Budget Estimates exchange of the Spring 2024 session I reconnected with public safety minister and Solicitor General, Hon. Mike Farnworth. After several years of advocating for independent oversight of the BC Conservation Officer Service I received the...

Motion 29: Amending the rules to increase legislative access to all private members (non-Cabinet)!

by adamolsen | May 14, 2024 | 42-5, Blog, Governance, Legislature, Motions, Video

We often think that democratic reform is limited to proportional representation. However, as I have seen how the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia functions over the past seven years I have seen how undemocratic it is. The processes that have evolved over the...

Talk and log. Talk and log. Talk and log. BC NDP are rhetorically protecting old growth!

by adamolsen | May 14, 2024 | 42-5, Blog, Governance, Indigenous, Legislature, Question Period, Video

The BC NDP have perfected “talk and log”. Minister of Environment, Hon. George Heyman, has consistently disagreed with the premise of my questions. If you were to view the world through his rose coloured glasses you would see a fantastical uptopia. What seems to...

Is a mace still an appropriate symbol for power in the British Columbia Legislative Assembly?

by adamolsen | May 9, 2024 | 42-5, Blog, Governance, Legislature, Statement, Video

As an MLA I often confront my relationship to power. I remember back to just a few days after I was elected in 2017 into the position often referred to as “the balance of power” I was asked about this in an interview on CFAX 1070. The question was something like, “how...
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