This Day In Clarkland...Nobody Can Even Pretend To Make This Stuff Up.

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Remember that crazy, mixed-up, non-credible top 10 list of bizarre things we thought the Clark government just might, but probably wouldn't, do in the upcoming year?

Well, it would appear that reality trumped that list, all in one day, just yesterday.

First off, Ian Mulgrew of the VSun has the story of the supreme court judge, and not the one who ruled for the teachers, is incensed that the Ms. Clark's Ministry of Children and Family Development did their very best to not do the right thing by a kid in trouble.

And then there was the report from Tamsyn Burgmann of the CPress about how the Clark government's prosecution is implementing one the first of 63 recommendations from Mr. Oppal's missing women inquiry, which is the good news. The bad news is the following, buried way, way under the lede:

...Other associated recommendations have yet to be completed, (Kasari) Govender of (Westcoast LEAF) said, including providing funding for research looking into why vulnerable witnesses are not believed in court and how that can be fixed...


And how about the flippety, floppity, flippettier and floppiest by Clarklandian transportation minister Todd Stone on the Translink tax as reported by the SLeader's Jeff Nagel?

Gosh.

It would appear that the polling and the focus groups and the business coalition must be driving the Clarklandian's crazy, because even Ms. Clark herself, at least according to the minions running her always quick-winning office has kinda/sorta, but not really reversed herself as well according to CTV News:

...Premier Christy Clark previously said it would be up to the TransLink Mayors’ Council to convince voters to accept the hike, and it’s unclear whether she will personally push for the “Yes” side.

She was unavailable for comment on Tuesday, but in a year-end interview with CTV News last month she spoke cautiously about the referendum.

“If people vote yes, we’re going to take that direction and make it work,” Clark said.

The Premier’s office said Tuesday that Clark will be voting “Yes.”...


Don't know about you but I, for one, sure am glad that our fine Premier doesn't need a weathervane to know which way the wind blows.


And then there was the Minister for Everything, Rich Coleman, who had his good friend and colleague Black Press' Tom Fletcher let us know that, while there will be no previously promised legislation, there will be 'regulation' to ensure that none of the crazy quilt patchwork of proposed gas pipes will be turned into dilbit conveyors, ever.

Don't know about you, but I sure do feel good about the permanence of a little red tape slapped on a set of big pipes by big Rich.

And speaking of permanence....

In the other 'big story' of the day, the Dean himself let us know that we shouldn't worry our pretty heads about the distinct possibility that the $344 billion in planned capital projects that the Clarklandians love to trumpet as a measure of their success won't happen. Why? Because the smart boys from the business land have crunched the numbers and told Mr. Palmer that it was always meant to be that way. Talk about a water carrying assist on the continued downgrading of Ms. Clark's Sparkle Ponies that began some time ago.

Is there an election coming in 2017 or something?

Sheesh.


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