So how do you feel about being ruled by a criminal?
Yes I said it right...RULED...and not very well as far as I am concerned....
Mr Champbell should have resigned, he would have fired anyone who did the same thing... and he should be in jail for a lest one year, but how can he travel with a crimainal record.... tuff cookies criminal!!!!!!!

Bad as I think Campbell's hypocrisy is and was at the time, I think the Attorney General of the time (I can't remember who it was) was far worse. He supported the self-serving excuses given by Campbell without any regard for BC groups who had been working for years and years to promote a negative view of drunk driving, groups like the RCMP and MADD. In one statement the Attorney General along with the rest of the Liberal Caucus, undid well over a decade of intense and expensive advertising and campaigning. It set BC's safety record back decades. What a shame.

Other premiers in the past did not have squeaky clean behaviours either, and I wish Mr. Campbell had quietly resigned after his drunk driving episode; it would have been the correct thing to do.

He didn't, instead he apologized and got re-elected, although he will never be able to live down the damage which that sorry episode has done to his image.

I don't understand what set Mr. Mair off to post his harsh assessment of Mr. Campbell, but it sacrifices some of its objectivity in my opinion when Mr. Mair tries to equate a drunk driving episode to the robbing of a bank.

That is really a very flawed comparison and hardly worthy of the fine comments that the writer usually is noted for.

There, I said it.

Pretty much the same there diplomat...
criminal activity is criminal activity...
if ya is a crimainal then ya are...and Campbell is!

Whatever.

If Criminal Activity was Criminal Activity then there would be no need of a 24 hour road side suspension. Police would be forced to apply the law equally to all people who they suspected of driving while impaired. This of course would mean a higher percentage of convictions, and a lot more high profile Citizens being charged with Impaired Driving. Why do we have a 24 hour roadside suspension??? Why do the Police have discretionary powers??.

Impaired driving in Canada is usually prosecuted under summary conviction and the 1st offence if convicted is a fine. The second offence if convicted is an automatic 14 days in jail, the 3rd office is 90 days in jail. It would be interesting to see how many people are convicted and sent to jail for 14 days for the second offence. Years ago they were sent to jail and as a result filled the jails, and then they began to serve their sentence at home with an ankle bracelet.

The conviction of Campbell in the USA for DUI is old news, and should be dropped, or if people wish to continue to flog this old horse then maybe they should bring in some new ones also, such a George Bush, and a few high profile members of the Government in Quebec. In any event Campbells conviction in the USA has absolutley nothing to do with Bennetts flying off the handle and sending out a nasty email, nor has it got anything to do with the Doug Walls Case. Looks like a slow news day for Rafe.

If you have a Blood Alcohol Content of 0.08% then in Canada you are considered to be driving while impaired, even though for some people this would not be true, because the rating pertains to body mass, etc;

We are surrounded by so called social drinkers who have a drink or two before dinner or lunch and a couple of drinks afterward who are in fact impaired however they never get stopped, or if they do, are not subjected to any testing.

I suggest only those who dont drink, or who have never driven while their BAC was over 0.08% should comment on this subject, all others should count their blessings.

Impaired driving in Canada is a Criminal Offence, however after 3 years it is removed from you record.

It happened on March 24th 2003, more than 3 years ago; it also did not occur in Canada.

I wonder if Mr. Mair was as upset with Premier Clarke when Clarke wasn't very cooperative about telling the whole truth about knowing Mr. Pellerinos casually or more intimately than he admitted when first interrogated.

Obviously, Mr. Mair is sitting in judgment of Mr. Campbell for a reason, but to say that his whole government has no moral compass because Mr. Mair thinks that the Premier is lacking morals is quite unfair and not too many fair minded people would agree with him, I am sure.

I would agree with Rafe that the current liberal government has no morals.

I disagree that a drinking and driving charge is equal to the kind of letter the impostor wrote. The impostor was quality of violating the trust in direct fashion with the citizens he is supposed to represent in his capacity as a cabinet member of the provincial government. Gordon was drunk in another country endangering their citizens and not our democracy. The impostors crime is far more serious for BC voters IMO.

(guilty not quality) lol