One could be mistaken to believe that the latest scandals involving the Liberal party in the case of the ethnicgate inquiry and the flip-flopping of Christy Clark basically paint all politicians with the same brush.
Let me point out that when it came to ethnicgate, the “inquiry” (if it could actually be called that) was done by a member of the Liberal party.
In retrospect, that would be akin to Richard Nixon’s staff investigating the Watergate scandal, then dusting their hands and quoting “Well, we found that the president did nothing wrong, but there were some shenanigans that happened because of communications staff.”
Would you believe it? Add to this debacle Christy telling all that no taxpayer dollars had been spent, only to write a cheque a week later. Christy has stated in media that if there needs to be more payments she will write another cheque.
According to a story in the Globe and Mail, a team led by Clark was in negotiations to bring the International Film Academy Awards (IIFA) to British Columbia for $15 million – IIFA was held in Toronto in 2011. But there was a glitch. The IIFA were in June while a provincial election was schedule for May. Instead, the Liberals went with the less prestigious Times of India Film Awards, which will be staged at Vancouver’s B.C. Place on April 6. Those awards will cost taxpayers $11 million.
And finally, there is the swing vote scandal which has now been linked to ethnicgate. I would suspect that Christy’s chequebook will be nearly empty by the time she is finished writing cheques… and the Liberals will be bankrupt.
K. Blake Newton
