Second week of NDP Filibustering has the BC Liberals channelling frustrated Blustering!

The start of the 2023 BC Legislature session has been a rough one, with the governing NDP taking to a procedural slowdown process to explore a range of bills that the opposition have been saying don't really require the minute and lengthy process that the government members have taken to their work.

We noted of the Liberal Frustration to the issue last week, with Skeena Liberal MLA Ellis Ross sharing his thoughts after the first week of the filibustering process, an interjection into the Thursday debate last week that quickly brought last weeks work to an end at the Legislature.

However, with a weekend to review the strategy, the Government returned this week in effect doubling down on their legislature strategy, a scenario that seemed to exasperate the Opposition more and more as the week went by.

By midweek, both the BC Liberal and Green Party House Leaders had called out the NDP for their lack of an agenda and any real path forward to address the real issues facing Briths Columbians. 

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This week Mr. Ross has put together a message for the constituents back in Skeena, delivered through his social media stream on Thursday, the MLA offered up his apology for the current lack of momentum for the Legislature. 

"Let's get to issues that British Columbians are asking us, begging, demanding us to talk about, let's get to those debates. and I've got to apologize to Skeena, the people who elected me to come down here. 

I don't know what to say about this I don't know how to explain this to you ... I don't know how to say this is justified in you sending me down here with your tax dollars to listen to this"

Despite the Opposition push to get on with the legislature agenda,  those intercessions have not served to spur anyone on to a more energetic pace of review of legislation.  

This past week of sessions continued on in much the same vein until the end of the Legislature week at 5:19 PM on Thursday evening.

You can review some of the week's past work in the Legislature, such as it has progressed can be reviewed from our Archive page here.

Cross posted from the North Coast Review.