Three decades ago. Different times, and most of the working political press was aware of it when I arrived. It was a result of my investigation that Dave Barrett eventually came forward with his story of a "brown bag of cash".
Even then he lied.
But at the same time I arrived in the middle of letter-gate and "Gracie's Finger", so there were no white hats....compared to Quebec it was tame, near boring. Compared to Regina it was Watergate North.
Canadians get the government they deserve and since we don't pay ANY attention till it's over, we get off again and on again corruption. I didn't find the current brand of Liberals all that corrupt, again it was more 'talking point". However they were incompetent. NOTHING runs smoothly and takes twice as many people to run it in this province, and where we have had some great success with cool programs they've rolled so much back to balance the budget there isn't much there.
You need a Barrister of the first rank to deal with the bureaucracy, which means the elderly, infirm, mentally ill etc. to speak for them. The Liberals shut down the Advocacy Program taking effect a year ago so no one but those affected would notice. You need those same attorneys to manage the Pharmacare program, again impacting on seniors and the mentally who usually already have a confusing array of meds to manage in the first place. We are shocked at record fatalities with fentynal, but no one is counting the people who die from issues over meds or being able to get what they need..
We can only hope minority status will wake them the **** up.
One good thing: Sam Sullivan is out of a job! Congratulations milenials in Vancouver-False Creek
