The AG Firing Fiasco ctd...Who Left Mr. Foster Twisting In The Wind?

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Yesterday we wondered why backbench MLA Mr. Eric Foster was left to crank his own Wurlitzer with nary a peep from any other BC Liberals (or the disappeared Premier) over the potential conflict of interest flap regarding the apparent firing of AG John Doyle.

And  now, well, there's this, from Les Leyne in today's VT-C:

Liberal MLA Eric Foster is clear on one point — he had no idea while sitting in judgment on auditor general John Doyle’s fate that Doyle’s team had rapped his office earlier for not submitting receipts for a constituency-office renovation...

{snippety doo-dah}

...A $78,000 bill was submitted for payment by the legislature with only a spreadsheet showing $67,000 in expenses. The lesser amount was paid, on orders from Speaker Bill Barisoff, which the audit considered a departure from standard policy.

That issue was spelled out in a report that has apparently been circulating for some time between the auditor general and the legislature.

It was obtained this week by the Times Colonist. When Foster was asked about it, he explicitly denied any knowledge of the accounting matter.

“I haven’t seen that letter. Isn’t that interesting?

“I never saw that letter ... That has never been raised with me ... I’ve never seen that.”...

Mr. Foster never saw the letter?

Hmmmm....

Isn't that interesting, now that he is the poor fellow taking all the flack and the (not) Premier's name is nowhere to be seen or heard on the matter of the actual apparent firing of an AG that was looking into all manner of matters involving both her government and, potentially, her?


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On the actual potential conflict point, to me it does not matter if Mr. Foster was exonerated by Mr. Fraser over the matter of the actual renovations that were done on his office in a building owned by his CA's family....Why? Well,  just the fact that this matter was raised by Mr. Doyle and that Mr. Foster definitely knew about it and had to respond to it should have been enough for him to have been asked by his conscience and, more importantly his Party, to step down as chair of the committee that sat in judgement of the AG...OK?

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