Clark Cabinet to be Sworn in This Morning
Monday, June 10, 2013 @ 4:36 AM
Prince George, B.C. – Premier Christy Clark and her nineteen nominees announced Friday in Vancouver will be sworn in as B.C.’s new Executive Council later this morning.
The ceremony will be held at Government House in Victoria, with members of the Executive Council formally sworn in by Lieutenant-Governor Judith Guichon at 9 a.m..
Premier Clark introduced a 19-member cabinet last week, a group which includes four representatives from northern BC.
Those members are veteran Prince George-Valemount MLA and cabinet minister Shirley Bond, who becomes the Minister of Jobs, Tourism and Skills Training as well as handling the Labour portfolio. Nechako Lakes MLA John Rustad cracks cabinet for the first time in three terms in office as the new Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Reconciliation. Peace River-North MLA Pat Pimm takes over Agriculture, and Coralee Oakes, who unseated Independent Bob Simpson in Cariboo-North, becomes Minister of Community, Sport and Cultural Development.
The Clark government will have two Tourism Ministers. Bond, and Naomi Yamamoto, who will be sworn in as Small Business and Tourism Minister. As well, Clark has named 14 MLAs to the position of parliamentary secretary.
Comments
Two Tourism Ministers????? Why not three???
I consider it an illegitimate cabinet when the one appointing the cabinet is not an elected member of the legislature.
Christy Clark did not win her own seat, in fact only got less than 20% of eligible votes in her riding running as the premier, and less then half of one percent of provincial votes… yet she gets to appoint the cabinet.
Its a huge flaw that is shameful for BC and what we call a democracy. The cabinet should be voted on by elected members of the legislature and they alone should determine who among the elected MLS’s will become premier and cabinet.
This whole idea of an unelected person being premier and appointing cabinet just stinks to high heaven.
IMHO
“and less then half of one percent of provincial votes… yet she gets to appoint the cabinet.”
Yet Dix, who as a vote total only personally got about 800 votes more than Christy did, would have been just fine to appoint the cabinet eh?
Dix was an elected MLA sitting in the legislature with the moral authority to be party leader elect.
Clark did not win her seat and does not have a place in the legislature. She didn’t make the cut.
Are we a centralized theocracy, or are we an elected democracy?
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