Norm Macdonald's News
October 30, 2007
The Ministers in charge of the Convention Centre Expansion Project have repeatedly hidden the truth about the costs of the project. As early as May 2003, there was an internal estimation that the cost would be around $637 million. However, the internal estimates and what the Premier and successive Minister’s have said publicly are very different stories. The Treasury Board approved numerous increases in the Budget, yet there was only one construction budget estimate since May 2003. This was...
October 26, 2007
This week, the Auditor General released his report outlining the Campbell government’s complete mismanagement of the Vancouver Convention Centre expansion project. No long-term business plan. Breaking ground before project designs were complete. Lack of expertise on the Board. And the biggest cost overrun in B.C. history: $388 million… and counting. The Campbell government was warned about ballooning cost overruns. They had a direct line into the project every step of the way. But they...
September 19, 2007
GOLDEN – New Democrat Tourism Critic Norm Macdonald is reminding the Campbell government of its promise to allow the Regional District to make the final decision on the proposed Jumbo Glacier Resort. Recent comments by NHL star Scott Niedermayer against the proposal have re-ignited a debate that has gone on for more than a decade. Norm Macdonald“Prior to the last election, the B.C. Liberal government clearly stated that the Province would not interfere in local government’s jurisdiction...
July 24, 2007
VICTORIA— New Democrat Tourism, Sports and the Arts Critic Norm Macdonald is demanding the Campbell government disclose safety recommendations made in a recent report on B.C. Place Stadium. “The report reveals that the B.C. Pavilion Corp. (PavCo.), the Crown Corporation whichNorm Macdonald manages B.C. Place, warned the Campbell government that the stadium needed major upgrades seven months before the roof tore open,” said Norm Macdonald, MLA for Columbia River-Revelstoke. “However, the B.C....
July 14, 2007
KIMBERLEY—The Campbell government must adopt the recommendations of the coroner’s inquest into the deaths of four people at the Sullivan Mine without delay, New Democrat Labour critic Chuck Puchmayr said today. “A coroner’s jury has completed their investigation and made recommendations to prevent such an incident from happening again,” said Puchmayr. “The Campbell government has a responsibility to honour their work, and the Opposition will be watching to make sure that those recommendations...
July 10, 2007
KIMBERLEY—A coroner’s inquest has revealed alarming details about poor working conditions for B.C.’s paramedic dispatchers that demand immediate attention from the Campbell government, NDP Labour critic Chuck Puchmayr said today.Puchmayr is attending the coroner’s inquest into the deaths of four men and women who died on the job -- Doug Erickson, Bob Newcombe, Kim Weitzel and Shawn Currier. The four workers, two of them paramedics, perished in the decommissioned Sullivan mine on May 15, 2006....
April 17, 2007
VICTORIA – New Democrat MLAs continued to press the Campbell government today to come clean on the “world-class cost overruns” in the Vancouver Convention Centre Expansion Project (VCCEP) that are the result of mismanagement by friends and political insiders of Gordon Campbell. Tourism Critic Norm Macdonald challenged the Campbell Liberals to come clean on the actual costs of the convention centre overrun, which is nearing $400 million. The Minister of Tourism has chosen to protect Liberal...
