Defending The Indefensible - Part V

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We are supposed to get new numbers, apparently going higher than 80, today on the number of cases of child deaths that have gone uninvestigated due to dismantling of the Children's Commissioner by Gordon Campbell and the British Columbia Liberals.

But, given all the quislings' statements on the issue up to this point, why should we believe any number that Gordon Campbell and the British Columbia Liberals come up with today, or tomorrow, or next week, or next month, or even next year for that matter.

Mr. Campbell says he takes responsibility for this tragedy in one breath and says it was caused be a 'systemic breakdown' in the next, followed by vague suggestions that the coroner and transitions are are actually the problem.

Forget about all this deflector spin in the face of pseudo-mea culpa.

Because what's important here, as Mr. Campbell professess, is that the problem must be fixed.

The problem is, Mr. Campbell and his Ministers have demonstrated that we can not trust them to even identify the problem (ie. it was the coroner that first when public with the number 80 after a woman named Kathleen Stephany first blew the whistle on a single case).

Therefore, there must be a public, independent inquiry into all of the entire ministry so that we can get to be bottom of all of the problems and start putting together a system of taking care of kids and families again.

In other words no narrowly focussed, hamstringed blue ribbon panel will suffice here. And if Mr. Campbell and/or his minions try to pull a PR stunt like that it will be for shame if the local media does not scream blue bloody murner and nail them to the wall on it.

Band aids will not do.

We need corrective surgery.

Anything less, and we, the people of British Columbia, will never be sure whether there are still children who are being crushed, literally, by Mr. Campbell's 'systemics'.


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For installments I, II, III, and IV please see here and here and here and here.
David Schreck has a very good summary of the most egregious cuts and a numbers estimate for 2004 based on, well, real numbers.

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