This Day In Snookland...Conflictyness Down On The Farm?

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Mark Hume, in the Globe, wonders if the BC Liberal government's conflict commissioner, the good Mr. Fraser, left something out of his decision to exonerate former agriculture minister Pat Pinn for his intervention in the workings of the Agricultural Land Commission awhile back:

A report by B.C.’s Conflict of Interest Commissioner examining former agriculture minister Pat Pimm’s involvement in a farmland decision makes it clear he did nothing wrong.

But to get to that exoneration Commissioner Paul Fraser appears not to have considered the full political backstory. And he dismisses as unwarranted the concerns of Richard Bullock, chair of the Agricultural Land Commission...

{snip}...(Conflict Commissioner) Fraser said he found nothing inappropriate about Mr. Pimm representing a constituent as that’s an MLA’s job.

The report, however, plays down the fact that Mr. Pimm wasn’t just any MLA. He was an MLA with a history of battering the ALC and within a week would become the minister of agriculture, with plans to dismantle the ALC...


It's a good piece by the ever diligent Mr. Hume.

But one thing that Hume did not mention is that, for family reasons, it is hard not to wonder if the Conflict Commissioner himself may have been forced to do his best to fight off occasional bouts of conflictyness recently.

Because.

You know...

This.


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