This Day In Snookland...The Anton Emergency.

ThereAreALottaWaysToServeUpThe
PorkVille


A lot of folks, a number of our readers included, have noted that the leader of Snookland threw her Justice Minister Suzanne Anton under the bus the other day when she dragged John Les away from the pork barrel.

But have no fear, Ms. Always Campaigning has an explanation for why she initially handed Mr. Les that six figure chunk of back bacon without putting it out to tender.

Rob Shaw, in the VSun has the money quote:

...“That is not a bypassing of government procurement rules,” Anton said. “Government procurement rules allow government to choose people in certain circumstances.”...


Hmmmmm...

Did she really mean to say 'procurement' or 'prosciuttio'?

So.

What, exactly, are those 'circumstances' that the Snooklandian currently in charge of laws 'n stuff used to justify the attempt to secretly dole out all that thinly sliced ham?

Well, Mr. Shaw got to the bottom of that one too.

Sort of:

...Anton’s ministry pointed to the Emergency Program Act, which lets the minister enter into agreements to develop or implement emergency plans. That act mainly covers B.C.’s reaction after it declares a state of emergency...
Gosh.

Don't know about you, but I sure don't remember any big earthquakes recently.

There was, however, that wee bit of wind late last week that could have mussed up the hair of a few key Snooklandians and thus addled a few of their minds even further.

Does that count?



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Now, after giving the almost always diligent Mr. Shaw credit for his piece, there was one thing in there that really bugged me...Which was the fogging of Mr. Les' history...Specifically, down in the part of the piece where few readers go (i.e. the bottom) he tells us a bit of Mr. Les' backstory with the Knotty Gordians and the fact that he was once the mayor of Chilliwack...Nowhere, however, does Mr. Shaw's let readers know that Mr. Les was  forced to resign from the BC Liberal government due to goings on in and around Chilliwack that occurred while he was the mayor....Now, of course, Mr. Shaw may have had that detail in his original copy and someone up the chain may have made a decision to remove it....Still...


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