How can one person create lasting change?

For too long, politicians and their friends — real estate developers, oil and gas lobbyists, fraudsters and crooks — have had a chokehold on this province.

It’s time for everyday British Columbians to take back our democracy. Together, we are going to dismantle their system and replace it with fair, proportional voting.

After years of unchecked political power — fuelled by unlimited money from corporations, unions and wealthy individuals all over the world — B.C. has finally banned Big Money in politics. But after decades of Big Money poisoning our democracy, British Columbians continue to suffer the consequences.

Attorney General David Eby appears to have inherited a huge mess. Money-laundering casinos, a housing market corrupted by drug dealers, powerful industries writing their own laws — our beautiful province is rotting from the inside out.

Our democracy is suffering from decades of darkness and secrecy, with Big Money pouring in from corporate bank accounts and lobbyists running amok. It’s time to let the sunshine in.

The federal courts quashed Justin Trudeau’s approval of the Trans Mountain pipeline and oil tanker expansion.

Now, he’s sent the project back for another rigged review by Harper’s National Energy Board.

Kinder Morgan executives in Houston are laughing all the way to the bank — with $4.5 billion of our money.

Canadians are left holding a leaky 65-year-old pipeline. And the federal government is still hoping to spend billions more on an uncosted oil tanker expansion project with no permits, no market and no future.

The courts have ruled. Justin Trudeau’s approval of the Trans Mountain expansion broke the law.

Still, his ministers say “all options are on the table” to bypass the court decision and re-start construction. What are they playing at?

The Trudeau government is telling the world to stop burning deadly thermal coal for electricity. At the same time, they are letting U.S. coal companies ship their coal through B.C. ports to China, Japan and Korea for that exact purpose. And these exports are increasing.

Did somebody say climate hypocrisy?

Coal dust billowing off the American coal trains careening through our towns is coating the homes and lungs of children in British Columbia. Why? So Donald Trump’s coal baron donors can squeeze the last profits from their dying industry.

U.S. ports reject coal exports because of their poor financial future and health impacts. Now this dirty U.S. coal is bound for B.C. ports, putting our health and economy at risk — and it’s getting a free ride.