What's Happening in Victoria

1. The carbon tax

It is too bad that Mr. Dion, fighting to gain ground in a Federal election campaign had to come along and confuse the issue further in B.C., since – let’s face it – the electorate is struggling to come to terms with our carbon tax.

Finance Minister Taylor’s assertion that any increase in gasoline taxes is matched dollar for dollar by tax cuts elsewhere, has been met with puzzlement if not disbelief. But in fact, that’s the law!

When this tax was first being considered, months and months ago, nobody foresaw the imminent 30 per cent increase in gasoline prices. So the Government is being

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Ralph Sultan, under the direction of Finance Minister Carole Taylor, headed up Industry consultation on British Columbia’s Insurance Act, the rewriting and updating of which is long overdue. Important input was provided by the Insurance Brokers Association of BC and executive director Chuck Byrne, president Fraser Lyle and Chair Ted Lewis. Recently, a BBQ was hosted at Ralph’s home to discuss delayed legislative progress on revisions to the Act. Here Ralph compares notes with Steve Sache of Atkinson & Terry Insurance, and Ruth Miller of Hub International TOS Ltd. (Burnaby). Discussion revolved around the new, temporarily delayed, Insurance Act pending in the Legislature.
Taxes, Taxes, Taxes

Has the carbon tax got you down? Let us remind ourselves that over the past seven years, British Columbia has been

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Wall Street icons collapsing, energy prices climbing, and citizens running for cover. What’s the real mood in the United States?

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