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NORTH DELTA – NDP MLA Guy Gentner is warning that the looming HST will have a negative effect on the bottom line for businesses along Scott Road, many of which are Indo-Canadian owned. He believes that for many small businesses, margins will be tough.

“With the pending implementation of the HST, retailing along Scott Road could be in the ditch. There is no doubt that for many businesses, especially for restaurants, many will be forced to close,” Gentner said. “According to the BC Business Council, in 2009, BC retail sales decreased by 6% and it is anticipated that consumer recovery will be slow in 2010.”

Gentner says vacancy rate along Scott Rd. will increase

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Delta North MLA Guy Gentner is worried the HST will have devastating impacts for many small businesses in his riding.

"With the pending implementation of the HST, retailing along Scott Road could be in the ditch," said the NDP MLA. "There is no doubt that for many businesses, especially for restaurants, many will be forced to close."

Gentner was updating his North Delta "Matrix" Service Directory and discovered along the seven-kilometre Scott Road commercial corridor, one the largest commercial strips in the Lower Mainland, that in less than a year there has been a 10 per cent decrease in businesses with an overall vacancy rate of over 25 per cent.

"In some older strip malls, the vacancy rates are as high as 42 per cent," said Gentner "This is alarming.

It's been a shockingly long time since the last round-up of found poetry from the B.C. legislature.

Poetry fans have been clamouring for more.

But this stuff doesn't just write itself. The Muse has to inspire the right politician at just the right time for true poetry to emerge.

Thankfully, newly elected MLAs have started to feel the inspiration.

What follows are verbatim transcripts of politicians' remarks, lightly edited to bring out the essential lyricism.

Standards Are Standards
By Guy Gentner (NDP)

With all due respect
To my friends on the other side of the Rockies,
Yes, they do have fish.
But are those standards the same
As standards for our guides up here,
With sports fisheries etc.,
Relative to knowing
There are different species of fish?
Salmon come to mind, course,
And sturgeon or others.
Those are interesting questions...
Another one, of course,
Is the forestry act.
Do we hire a faller from Saskatchewan
Knowing full well that they know

by LES LEYNE

New Democrat MLA Guy Gentner is making me nervous. I'm worried about him.

He's utterly dedicated to his job. The Delta North MLA is the go-to guy when the NDP needs a passionate speech denouncing the Liberals.

In just the last few weeks he's call them a "heavy-handed," "brutal," "cheap," "deceitful," "baneful," "cruel," "elitist," "crass," "despicable," "disdainful" government.

Even by legislature standards of diatribe, that's not a bad record.

But his devotion to unmasking the B.C. Liberals is verging on the fanatical. It was his recent speech on the topic of the Wood First Act that ratcheted up the level of concern.

The Wood First Act is an innocuous little two-page bill. It requires the use of as much wood as possible in all new provincially funded buildings.

Or as the government puts it, the bill "facilitates a culture of wood for construction."