Monday, June 01, 2020

All British Columbians Will Miss Dermod Travis.

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Dermod Travis, the Executive Director of Integrity BC, and the man who did as much, if not more, to make campaign finance reform happen in our fair province has died just shy of his 60th birthday.

A lot of folks have already had a lot of nice things about the guy that, as far as I can tell, everyone, regardless their politics and/or ideological stripe, respected because he was always a straight shooter.

Personally, my favourite comments so far have come from another watchdog of a different, but clearly related, kind, Sean Holman:

...Travis was like a “full-time professional citizen,” said Sean Holman, an associate journalism professor at Mount Royal University in Calgary. He was a one-man Ralph Nader, exposing waste, fraud and negligence.

“This was a person who marched straight into minefields because he thought he could help,” Holman said. “It’s a terrible loss. There’s not enough of those people in society.”...


Those words were noted for posterity by Tom Hawthorn who has outdone himself this time with his fantastic, detailed and nuanced obituary in The Tyee.

Go read all of Mr. Hawthorn's piece - you won't be sorry.



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And then there was....This.

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5 comments:

Lew said...

A man of integrity. Gone far too soon.

Keith said...

This is a very sad loss, not just to our political discourse, but to the world.

Tom Hawthorns piece is compulsory reading, also read through the comments to find the entry by Bill Tielemann.

Next time the stars are out, give Dermod a thumbs up.

RossK said...

Too soon, indeed Lew.

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Should be out tonight Keith.

The stars, I mean.


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Danneau said...

And good on you for linking to the tweet of social integrity, something we olderish folk might want to contemplate as part of a program of orderly generosity of spirit when passing the guttering torch. How many among the body politic will give more than a perplexed shrug at the mention of DT's name? Too many, I fear.

RossK said...

On the flip side, folks who have been paying attention won't shrug Danneau.


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