Life is amazing:
-gyms exist
-Christopher Nolan movies exist
-hot girls outnumber even moderately put-together dudes 2000 to 1
-you and your wife can get drunk at a dimly-lit steakhouse then go home and watch Titanic and smash all night without a condom
-you and your friends can hit the gym then smoke a joint at a Coldplay concert
-every food item in the world has been hunted and gathered for you (grocery stores)
-you could be working 16 hour days in a coal mine in a third world country
-you’re spinning on a sphere in an infinite universe and the fact you’re alive is a 1 in 500 trillion miracle
If anyone ever complains in front of you tell them they’re an idiot :)
It wasn’t long ago I wasn’t allowed past this gate.
I was on the outside. Not even in the building.
I was back working in trucking and road-building, putting in long hours like so many British Columbians do. And I used to look at this place and wonder what was going on inside these walls that affected my life so deeply.
Inflation.
Crime.
Housing.
What’s being taught to our kids in schools.
Decisions made in here were shaping everything out there.
And I made a decision.
I wasn’t going to just complain about it. I was going to step up and do something about it.
Now, in a few hours, I’ll be walking in for my second Budget Speech as your MLA for Langley-Abbotsford.
That’s not something I take lightly.
I’m here to bring transparency.
To bring accountability.
To make sure the people who aren’t in this building still know what’s happening inside it.
Because most British Columbians don’t hear every bill.
They don’t see every amendment.
They don’t sit through every debate.
But they live with the consequences.
I carry a real sense of responsibility for that.
I didn’t get into politics for a title.
I got into politics to represent the people who were standing outside that gate, just like I once was.
And I will never forget where I came from.
The road that got me here.
Or who I work for.
@AlexRolex93 Paper thin take. Got traded at this apex from a better team to a worse one. This was good timing and that's all. Not all players are the same. Some windows close faster than others.
Maybe... MAYBE we should've been focused for a little while on building our nation up instead of scrapping off pieces and auctioning it away. Your leadership and this country are one and the same-- soft, ineffective and weak.
Carney: "American hegemony in particular helped provide public goods, open sea lanes, a stable financial system, collective security ... this bargain no longer works. Let me be direct. We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition ... recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as a weapon. Tariffs as leverage ... "
Vancouvers decline coincides with the rise of limousine liberals and champagne socialists getting louder but offering very little substance for Vancouverites beyond what they hear in their echo chambers. If they cared about small business they would care about your workers and customers safety. But they don’t.