It’s spring – that time of year when confetti falls from above, is swept up by the wind and tossed back towards us. Sadly we aren’t talking about the annual cherry blossom festival.
We’re referring to the flurry of announcements from the province, which began as a gentle breeze sometime in the fall, gathered force over winter and has now assumed the stature of a cyclone, with announcements about the many ways B.C. is benefiting its citizens blanketing the news cycle 24/7.
If you missed it the first time, you’ll surely get it again soon. The province’s email blast system has been set to semi-automatic stun.
There are so many competing announcements to be made, some are even being relegated to inopportune time slots like Saturday morning.
Who knew there were so many amazing public programs that citizens had to be made aware of with their own money at a time so agonizingly close to an election?
If you didn’t, you do now.
None of this is new, or unique to the BC Liberals. Many of the announcements aren’t new either – like the completed seismic upgrades for Windsor, announced this week with a photo opportunity, which was also announced as a government priority just prior to the 2013 election.
Mercifully, after the election officially gets underway next week, we can all stop pretending that the government is governing and acknowledge that our MLAs are actually doing something they’ve been at for much of the past year – campaigning.
Until then, expect the tsunami of need-to-know up-to-the-minute good news to continue unabated.
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