By John Horgan, Special to the Vancouver Sun
Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Opinion+Only+public+inquiry+will+bottom+Clark+coverup/11125800/story.html#ixzz3dN7wBunI
By John Horgan, Special to the Vancouver Sun
Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/business/Opinion+Only+public+inquiry+will+bottom+Clark+coverup/11125800/story.html#ixzz3dN7wBunI
9 comments:
A public inquiry assumes that the Liberals will allow a) questions that they don't like b) access to documents that they don't want uncovered c) participation by the people who actually made the decisions.
Probably we could get about the same result by asking "Pretty please," but without spending millions of dollars.
I am concerned about the fact that the RCMP allowed mis-information to be published. If there wasn't an active RCMP investigation in place, then why didn't the RCMP make that information available to the Press?
Hmmm... the situation DOES remind us of the Basi Virk affair that has quietly disappeareed. Thornthwaite was mum on that as well.
Our 2 Liberal MLAs do nothing except toe the party line.
I don't know what will be achieved by an inquiry, but I still think it should be done. Not all questions deserve an answer, but these ones certainly do: 1)What information led to the firings? and 2)Were documents intentionally destroyed?
The whole RCMP thing is a red herring. RCMP Sgt Andrew Cowan said in a 2013 email "To confirm, the RCMP investigation, although suspended pending the final report/investigation by your office, is not concluded"... The politician then goes into the public and states that the RCMP has an ongoing investigation. Is the politician lying, or simply misunderstanding the statement? Would any reasonable person on hearing a statement from the Officer assigned to the file that it "is not concluded" assume that an investigation is still going to occur? I think this is a case of a small miscommunication snowballing into something much more. I am not exonerating the Premier, she may have over-reacted in the original event and fired people without knowing the facts, and she may have assisted in stifling the investigation after the fact, but the whole RCMP angle is minor and forgivable.
I disagree.
The RCMP is Federal, and to think that there is coercion between the RCMP and the BC Government is outrageous and certainly fuels all corruption theories regarding the RCMP.
The RCMP may have a federal investigation mandate as well, but they are employed in BC by a Provincial contract... but that is irrelevant.
Are you suggesting that the RCMP was coerced to not investigate? The comment from Sgt Cowan says that they were investigating, but that investigation was temporarily suspended, the media keeps repeating that the RCMP NEVER investigated.
RCMP angle is a red herring. Focus on why they were fired. Was it because the media uproar about a confidentiality breach compelled the Premier/Health Minister to over react based on too little and incorrect information?
You Anon. 1:18 are perpetuating the red herring angle. There needs to be a full public enquiry into this mess.
Isn't there something here regarding Pharmacare and some drug company that wanted the government's MSP to cover some new drug?
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