John Horgan the Premier of BC is the Chief Virtue Signaller in charge.
He likes to grandstand and race hustle on social issues where he gets people fired up, but doesn’t actually have to do any work.
He has been completely silent on BC’s biggest human rights crisis and most discriminatory piece of legislation on the books – our antiquated wrongful death laws.
BC’s Family Compensation Act is a 174 year old piece of legislation adopted from UK’s Lord Campbell’s Act (1846). Under this legislation, only breadwinners have value based on their future lost income. Everyone else is completely worthless under the law when they are wrongfully killed.
BC is the last province yet to modernize, including the Yukon, which did so in 2014.
In fact, the Provincial Government is busy reducing victim rights even further, through the proposed No-Fault motor vehicle legislation. This legislation ensures the injured no longer receive pain & suffering damages, or access to justice through professional legal representation. It also ensures that everyone still has no value when they are wrongfully killed.
The Provincial Government’s propaganda team has labelled this new victim rights reducing legislation “Enhanced Care Coverage”; inspired by the Orwellian concept “Doublespeak”, where you label something completely the opposite of what it actually is to fool the population.
We’ve spoken to both ICBC and the Attorney General Office; they all seem to have cognitive dissonance and are drinking their own Kool Aid.
The role of government is to protect the life, liberty and property of the individual. They are currently failing us in this regard. Especially with respect to vulnerable groups like children, seniors, and the disabled. Even women (17%) and native (248%) populations are disproportionately affected when examining the government’s own statistics on wrongful death.
According to a recent National Post article, the BC NDP’s top donors are the various public service unions. They wouldn’t dare lay a single person off at ICBC, an organization that has double the workforce as any private insurer of the same market cap.
The modus operandi is to sacrifice the rights of victims, of which insurance is supposed to protect, in the name of salvaging this antiquated, irrelevant, crown corporation that stifles innovation.
You want answers as to why we are the last province yet to modernize?
It’s because of stupid superstition, trying to hold onto a socialist institutional relic that has continuously prevented the government from actually acting in the best interests of the people in which they are supposed to protect.
In the meantime, don’t worry folks, John Horgan will always be here to continue to virtue signal, and lull you into a false sense of security that they’re the good guys, championing the rights of the marginalized.
This couldn’t be further from the truth…
‘In Their Name’ is the campaign of ‘The BC Wrongful Death Law Reform Society’ – a BC registered non-profit organization comprised of volunteer families who have lost a loved one to wrongful death in BC and were denied access to justice. In response to the biggest human rights issue facing the province today, our goal is to modernize British Columbia’s antiquated wrongful death legislation, which predates confederation (1846). Under current legislation, the value of a human life is measured only by the deceased’s future lost income, so long as they had dependents.