Less Ribbon-Cutting, More Action
Guest: Brad West (Port Coquitlam mayor)
On this edition of Journal, mayor Brad West of Port Coquitlam walks us through some of the failures we are seeing in our governments at all levels and some of the solutions.
Brought up by his mother after his father died, Brad remembers the importance to the family when she finally got a union job, good wages, and good hours. Brad went on to study at the University of Victoria before taking a job in communications with the United Steelworkers.
You can see with his personal experience he would be a natural fit with the NDP of British Columbia, a social democratic party. So how surprising was it when, last year, Brad West took a swing at the NDP government by saying they were more interested in pronouns than jobs?
In other words, ideology over workers.
Recently in another op-ed, the mayor elaborated. This time, about how governments in general are failing and frustrating their citizens.
People, he says, want results not announcements. Service, not ribbon cutting.
Based on his successful time in municipal government – elected as a councillor in 2008, the youngest mayor elected in Port Coquitlam’s history in 2018, then re-elected by acclamation, meaning no one chose to run against him. Based on that alone, his ideas are worth listening to.
For instance:
Less high school behaviour in the legislature, more listening to citizens and their needs.
Fewer studies and more action.
And stop overspending taxpayer’s hard-earned dollars.
Mayor Brad West joins us to outline a road to recovery and a way for politicians to regain the public trust.
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