Long story short, for Adrian Dix to lay claim for the NDP having the lead role, in seeing this antiquated law removed, is disingenuous and self-serving

NDP leader Adrian Dix ... "Is this the kind
of leadership BC is looking for?"

Last night on the social media platform Facebook, BC NDP leader Adrian Dix posted the following comment

After considerable effort, Lana Popham, the NDP team and many others convinced the government to allow online wine sales and potentially open up opportunities across the country for small BC wineries. More work to do including pressuring Ontario to join BC and the NDP government in Manitoba and make it reciprocal. Good news though, it shows that we can help drive change even from the opposition side to help the BC economy. And congratulations to the government for listening.

To which I replied:

I think there were many more that took the reins on this one Adrian. You folks also had a role, but shame for what seems like to be taking the majority of the credit :(

I’ll give him credit as he did response to my comment by saying:

Completely agree Al.  For example have repeatedly recognized the roles of federal MPs of all stripes. We have been working hard too. Time to press Ontario and other provinces to act in turn.

Even still, I felt the need to state:

People were talking about this, and raising the issue for several years now. It has been the combined efforts of many people -- just saying.

Former Vancouver radio personality Terry David Mulligan

And it is true … there are a large number of people that have raised this issue of being able to buy and sell BC wines, and wines from other provinces, for personal use.  In fact the first I can recall was former Vancouver radio rock-jock Terry David Mulligan, who now makes his home in the Okanagan. 

But he of course was not ‘the’ first … and those in BC’s wine industry have worked for a long time to have a law that dates back to 1928, (which made it illegal to ship wine between provinces) ended.

The federal government did its part last month with Bill C-311 that now allows people to order, and carry wine for personal use, across provincial borders.

And yesterday, the BC government also announced it would, “… end restrictions on wine from other provinces, allowing people to order any non-B.C. wine without any markup fees — so long as all the materials were produced in Canada and the wine is being shipped directly from the winery.”  (Vancouver province – Thursday July 12)

Long story short, for Adrian Dix to lay claim for the NDP having the lead role, in seeing this antiquated law removed, is disingenuous and self-serving.  

I wonder how many of those current, non-traditional NDP supporters, will think of this?  Are they aware? Do they care?

All I can say is, I hope they do care, and do become aware, because that is not the way a government-in-waiting shows honesty and integrity.

This is not the party that we need to REPLACE the BC Liberals come May of next year.

I’m Alan Forseth in Kamloops … with the thoughts of one conservative.