Loss Of BC Auditor General ‘Huge’ Says NDP
Prince George, BC – It’s a dark day for government transparency and good governance says BC New Democrats, in the wake of news BC Auditor General, John Doyle’s, decision to accept a position in Australia.
"Since his first report in 2008, Mr. Doyle has been unrelenting in helping to expose the failure and mismanagement of the Liberal government," says NDP caucus chair, Shane Simpson. "And the Liberals have made it abundantly clear they disliked the work he was doing."
Premier Christy Clark stepped in late last month after a legislative committee of MLAs decided not to appoint Doyle for a second term. Doyle has announced he is turning down the offer of a two-year extension to take a post in the Australian state of Victoria.
Simpson says Doyle’s first report into the distribution of Timber Forest Licence lands of Vancouver island was met by nearly unprecedent criticism from then-forest minister Pat Bell. He adds subsequent audits were often challenged or derided by Liberal ministers.
"Governments are made better by vigorous, honest criticism and Mr. Doyle was an effective part of that," says the NDP caucus chair, who added the Liberals have a lot to answer for in this ‘debacle’.
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Doyle took a better deal for the same job in another country. Get over it NDP. IS he the only person that can do the job in BC? You’d think with a 2 bit, document forging crook wanna be premier like Adrian Dix, he’d be happier without the oversight provided by the AG.
Good on CC for getting involved and showing leadership in trying to keep him employed.
It was your friendly neighborhood Liberal committee that wanted him gone in the first place. Then, just to try and save face and garner a few votes your hero CC backtracks on her own party members decision.
Your pals are done in BC, get over it
I’d like to see a mobility of labor agreement between Canada and Australia. They have a lot of the skills we need as it relates to mining and it sure would be great to be able to work down there for a few years.
With new immigration rules one is more likely to get into Australia as a migrant from a third world country than from Canada. Less than 2000 Canadians are allowed to immigrate to Australia every year out of over a quarter million new immigrants. Work visa’s are impossible to get if you are over 35 and don’t have a specific skill that is on their list of required skills.
PG:
Good one, love it.
The guy lost his integrity years ago and that’s all the NDP can put out, they’re done.
Lost his integrity!??? If you mean he held the Liberals accountable for their lies and mismanagement then I guess he is guilty as you charge.
Integrity..? Is that what the people of BC have been dealing with the last ten years,I think not
Why did the Legislative Committee on which BOTH Liberals and New Democrats sat unanimously agree not to re-appoint Doyle in the first place? That’s what I first remember reading about all this. Is that not so?
Seems a little strange that the NDP and the Liberals have now bent over backwards to try to retain him when the bi-party Committee UNANIMOUSLY agreed not to, and wanted to find someone else.
Perhaps it may have been ‘purposefully’ rumored Mr. Doyle was already shopping for a new job elsewhere? With better perks and pay, perhaps, unless he got a better deal here to stay on?
Might there have been some ‘back-room’ politics going on here of the type none of the parties would be anxious to reveal?
Or is such cynicism completely unwarranted when we’re dealing with two political Parties of such high integrity, and an A-G so dedicated to public service that he’d do the job without a single unselfish thought in his mental makeup? Just wondering.
“Your pals are done in BC, get over it”
When the NDP get back in and every industry currebntly employing people in this province picks up and moves we will be wishing for the other guys again.
Adrian Dix is a crook. Plain and simple and if it wasn’t for the backing of the union cronies, he wouldn’t get a job as a mailman never mind the premier of BC. I wouldn’t let him watch my house while I was on vacation. I don’t get how some of you on here can simply “overlook” the fact that he had to resign as a member of the ruling provincial government of the day for FRAUD.
Lets all do ourselves a favour and make sure that you get out and vote in May. The NDP will get all their unionists out to vote and what will that get them???? A province of forgetful folks who vote as punishment as opposed to voting for positive change. At the end of it all, we all suffer. BC Politics are GOOFY.
“lies and mismanagement”
Can you say Fast Cat?
Or how about “Bingo-Gate”
settle down folks,if you want to cat call, meet each other at coffee.
Sorry Ben. I’ll be good :)
settle down huh ? That reads as just healthy debate, no personal attacks other then the statement against Dix but that is proven so it’s not libellous.
socredible, I’m sure it was said in one news report that it was the Liberal members that refused his reappointment.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/mla-wrong-to-lead-appointment-process-after-critical-audit-watchdog-says/article7792254/
More Liberal goodies.
http://gangstersout.blogspot.ca/2013/01/the-campbellism-of-agricultural-reserves.html
This guy is awesome!
http://alexgtsakumis.com/2013/01/31/part-one-exclusive-double-shot-the-real-story-behind-adrians-dixs-fake-memo-plus-the-real-adrian-dix-and-the-rcmps-targeted-attack-on-glen-clark/
http://alexgtsakumis.com/2013/01/31/part-one-exclusive-double-shot-the-real-story-behind-adrians-dixs-fake-memo-plus-the-real-adrian-dix-and-the-rcmps-targeted-attack-on-glen-clark/
Dragonmaster, the new reports I heard said that this Committee had to reach an unanimous decision, like a Jury. And it did, apparently. I believe there was one more Liberal on it than there were New Democrats, and their deliberations were ‘in camera’. And they’d unanimously agreed not to re-appoint Doyle. I think it would pretty well have to be that way in a matter like this, or the Liberals would be seen in an even more unfavorable light than they are already.
I wouldn’t think it matters all that much who is eventually appointed to replace Doyle, whatever investigations were underway under his watch would most likely continue. The BC Rail – Basi Virk one seems to be stymied by the Courts anyways; but maybe the NDP will hold a full scale public inquiry into all that when they become government, and we’ll finally find out the truth. Not that there’s much that could likely be done about it now anyways.
I doubt very many other than rabidly desperate Liberal supporters are really very much interested in Dix’s efforts to protect his former boss.
That whole incident speaks volumes of the type of people that form the controlling core of the BC Liberal Party. They’ve long exhibited a penchant for ‘dirty tricks’ way back to the days when they were in Coalition with the Conservatives, prior to Social Credit coming in.
And they practiced that all through their years as a big-City based rump group when WAC Bennett was in office. It was truly a sad day when those later in charge of the old BC Social Credit League ever allowed that mob to pull a ‘reverse takeover’ of that Movement, supposedly to avoid splitting the “free enterprise vote”.
Those leeches were never for anything resembling a decent attempt at “free enterprise” ~ they’re just “sell the farm, global capitalist opportunists” who care about nothing other than lining their own pockets. Their greed will soon do them in, and the quicker the better.
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