Prince Rupert is the Pauper

Here's a BC Liberal TV ad you won't see: An aerial shot of the northwest coast panning over an entire city with its hand out. When a city council has to do everything from selling the local campground to laying off firefighters, just how much of a 'Golden Decade' is it?

About 26,000 people live in the Prince Rupert area, which, like the rest of Gordon Campbell's so-called "Heartlands", took a serious beating when the Liberals applied their unique brand of C.P.R. - Cuts, Privatization, Raw Log Exports. The Liberals are planning to investigate how the municipal shortfall happened, but does anyone think they'll start with the people who shut down Skeena Cellulose, then laid off the hundreds of public sector workers from the court house to the hospital, whose taxes might have been propping up the town?

Of course not - that would require looking in the mirror.