British Columbia Moderate Democratic Movement

The British Columbia Moderate Democratic Movement was a minor political party in the Province of British Columbia, Canada.

• In 2004, it joined with the British Columbia Democratic Alliance, the Citizens Action Party and Link BC to form the British Columbia Democratic Coalition.
• This coalition merged with the Reform Party of British Columbia and All Nations Party of British Columbia on January 15, 2005 to form a new, centrist political party, the Democratic Reform British Columbia.

Despite this, the BCMDM nominated two candidates in the 2005 BC election: James Solhiem won 123 votes (0.61% of the total) in the riding of Chilliwack-Sumas, and David Michael Anderson won 235 votes (1.20% of the total) in Chilliwack-Kent.

The party was de-registered by Elections BC in July 2008.

Platform

The platform proposes:^[1]

• Education
  • forgivable student loans to cover tuition]fees for B.C. residents
  • increased funding for school boards
  • greater autonomy for school boards to create new programs, subject to provincial standards
• Healthcare
  • paying practitioners for "promotion of wellness rather than the treatment of disease"
  • creating regional treatment centres covering all stages of care from diagnosis to treatment
• Economics
  • a B.C. business development bank to assist the creation of new businesses
  • an "Idea Development Centre" to help entrepreneurs develop business plans and gain funding
• Governance
  • opposing the privatization of public assets, and returning already-privatized assets to public ownership
  • requiring all Members of the Legislative Assembly to attend monthly town hall meetings in their communities
  • increased transparency, including access to information measures making all government, Crown corporation and public-private partnership records open to public inspection
  • laws to hold public officials accountable for what the party called "fiscal mismanagement and misleading budgets"
• Justice
  • to "ensure violent offenders are removed from our streets"
  • increased use of restorative justice, halfway houses, and intense supervision for first-time non-violent offenders
• Forestry
  • ensuring raw logs are processed in the community in which they were produced
  • funding forest management to prevent and control wildfires
  • ending the "self-policing" of forestry companies
• Environment
  • maintaining the ban on bulk water exports
  • funding scientific research as the basis for all environmental decisions
  • increasing penalties for environmental violations, and putting funds raised directly into park maintenance and habitat protection
  • investing in pollution control research
• BC Hydro
  • "fairly priced electricity" through investment in new generating facilities for BC Hydro, to replace aging facilities nearing the end of their life

See also

• List of British Columbia political parties

References

External links

• Moderate Democratic Movement site

Provincial political parties in British Columbia
Legislative Assembly	Liberal (49) New Democratic (34) Green (1) Independent (1)
Other parties recognized by Elections BC, active in the 2013 election	British Columbia Party Christian Heritage Communist Conservative Excalibur First Libertarian Marijuana Platinum Unparty Vision Work Less Your Political Party
Other parties recognized by Elections BC, inactive in the 2013 election	Action Land Air Water Peoples People's Front Progressive Refederation Reform VanIsle
Historical parties represented in the legislature	Democratic Reform Federated Labour People's Party Progressive Democratic Alliance Provincial Reform Social Constructive Social Credit Social Democratic Socialist Unionist United