This Day In Clarkland...'Find Me A New Shiny!'

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The local Lotuslandian proMedia herd, including (gasp!) NW's Mr. Leslie really has turned, as was pointed out by reader Lew in the comments on the weekend:

Health Minister Terry Lake appeared on 'NW with Sean Leslie (Friday)... afternoon to not answer questions and stated that he doesn’t know how much the government has paid in settlements to some of the fired researchers because that’s something that’s done by his deputy working with legal counsel and other civil servants. Now, a minister who doesn’t know that information on such a sensitive and explosive file, or a minister who does know that information and publicly says he doesn’t, isn’t fit to hold office. He’s fit to be a BC Liberal, but not to occupy an office that belongs to the citizens of BC.

He allowed that he’s looked at the case from “every which way I can” and essentially said there’s nothing there that he wouldn’t want people to know except what actually happened. He goes on to say he won’t put the reputations of those who made the decisions at risk or cause them “undue stress” because that’s what was done to the fired researchers, and that would be two wrongs trying to make a right. So the current minister says there was definitely wrongdoing under the minister at the time and he knows who it is, but would rather have the public pick a name and guess who it was, thereby putting the reputation of everyone even remotely involved at risk whether they’re guilty or not. And the deputy minister that signed the dismissal letters says he knows there is blame to be laid, just not on him. He won’t name names either.

The scary thing is that you can pretty much pick any ministry of the current government and you’ll find a scandal and a double talking minister that claims no knowledge of what those sneaky civil servants are up to. It’s time those sneaky devils started speaking up to defend themselves.

So.

Given all that, (and the just published poll thingy with the sliding approval numbers for M. Figurehead) you can be sure that the wizards are doing their best to find something new and shiny to distract the herd.

And it will have to be something big.

After all that business with the hands-free driving punishment-improvement project/website from Ms. Always Campaigning went absolutely nowhere.

The real question is - Will the new shiny bauble be both big AND negative?

Or will it be something to do with rescuing lost canines from the meat grinder in far away lands?

Or will it be both?

As for actually governing?

Well...

You know.


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Had a good laugh when Ms. Anton breathlessly told the MoCo's Kirk Williams last week that her hands-free penalization project was so popular with the public that the website, after a massive wizard-assisted PR push, had attracted 990 visitors in a single day...Why was I laughing?...Because that actually rivals the numbers for this little F-Troop list blog...Gosh...The magic!



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