Boss Power antics show Clark Liberals have same old disrespect for public as Campbell

By Harvey Oberfeld

The Liberals just don’t seem to learn. They still think the public has no right to know why they keep making secret deals handing out millions of dollars in legal settlements and fees.

Christy Clark said she was not Gordon Campbell and her way of governing would be different from that of the disgraced ex-premier. Clearly she was joking…or just taking the voters, as Campbell seemed to, for fools!

In fact, things are not getting better: they’re getting worse.

Clark’s Liberal government handed out $30 million in public money, PLUS legal fees, to Boss Power in a settlement,  to keep a potentially embarrassing matter of government and perhaps ministerial wrongdoing out of the courts.

The BC Rail legal fees settlement,  to keep a potentially embarrassing matter of government and perhaps ministerial wrongdoing out of the courts, cost us $6 million.

So it can be argued that the cost of Liberal cover-ups of shenanigans and disgraceful activities under Clark is now costing us FIVE TIMES more, not less than under Campbell.

And yet, MOST of the MSM (apart from The Vancouver Sun and Vaughn Palmer)  in BC appear content to cover press release announcements of the government, rather than scream like hell and demand answers.  Ho hum!

The NDP has been trying in the House to ferret out answers and information and details of what happened.

How has Clark’s government responded?

With obfuscation, interference, manoeuvring, incomplete answers, refusals to answer and basically ignoring and disrespecting the public’s basic right to know what has been going on.

Disgraceful.

Clark has to answer for that.

If only the media would wake up and demand it.

Harv Oberfeld is a blogger and retired journalist and broadcaster. This column originally appeared in his blog, Keeping It Real.