BC COMMENTARY - Time to do away with MSP

been that “the best social program is a job.” The arrival of many vulnerable but resilient This well-worn phrase, around since the 1970s newcomers in the past months has brought The arrival of and used by Ronald Reagan and most recently our frayed social-educational infrastructure many vulnerable Donald Trump, masks the interdependence of into the spotlight and challenges government but resilient. [...] The disconnect service comes up with a number, “870 tcf of happens mainly at the political level, where marketable supply” that is much larger than the government is clearly disinterested in the the OGC estimates, but which shows Hughes’ findings of our research, and instead focused analysis is closer to the mark. [...] But we know from the 100,000 number came from a consultant’s Grant Thornton report that the government report by Grant Thornton, which the govern- provided both the data and the economic ment commissioned a few weeks before the model to the consultant, and worked hand- 2013 pre-election Throne Speech, and then in-glove with them over a tight few weeks to BC COMMENTARY used during the election camp. [...] I produce the numbers in time for the 2013 a publication of the BC office of review the methodology of the GT report and Throne Speech. [...] That response makes no 1 376 tcf published by the NEB and OGC in Any errors and opinions presented sense whatsoever — the issue at hand is that the 2013 plus 40 tcf added by Hughes to cover in this paper are those of the BC government manufactured a massive jobs the Liard and Cordova plays that were not authors, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Canadian number for its own 2013 elect.