The B.C. Liberals just can't seem to help themselves.
On Oct. 30, the Burnaby NOW reported that the Burnaby Association for Community Inclusion was going to have to make budget cuts in order to pay for wage increases.
These wage increases were only enacted because BACI believed that the provincial government was going to help fund the three per cent increase in wage. Now they and other groups across British Columbia have learned that the government never had any intention of funding those increases, and further that those organizations were on their own to determine how those wage increases would be funded.
Truly, I do understand. The government is running a deficit and there is a need to live within our means, and that sadly means that cuts are going to happen whether they should or not. But to promise funding for people with disabilities and then take it away like this is beyond cruel. It's immoral. It's a rot within the B.C. Liberals that speaks not to political necessity but to a genetic imperative to lie and humiliate.
It's shameless and heartless, but no more than can be expected.
Trevor Ritchie, Burnaby
