Ottawa announces diplomatic shakeup with 26 new appointments
Foreign Affairs Minister Stéphane Dion removes high-profile Harper-era appointees
By John Paul Tasker, CBC News Posted: Jul 19, 2016 11:27 AM ET Last Updated: Jul 19, 2016 3:02 PM ET
It’s about time, by any standards of political heel-dragging, that the Harper appointees go gently into that good night, but look out, BC, Gordo “three martini” Campbell will be back in town, very shortly..you remember, the guy with the 9% approval rating, the guy who created the reno-viction plague, the guy who made ‘leaky condos’ a phrase for the ages in BC, the guy who dismantled the trades apprenticeship program and made elevator inspectors, hairdressers and others mere wage slaves with no training necessary…that guy, the one who got arrested for driving drunk in Hawaii while still Premiere of this province..who wept like a Southern televangelist on TV begging for forgiveness for his sins, but who refused to do the honorable thing and quit..you know, the abject liar who swore he wouldn’t implement the HST, pre-election, and did just that anyway…his reward from his overlord Harper? Why, a plummy job in the UK as a ‘commissioner’ at Canada House..whatever it is that the position entails, I would bet it pays well…I could go on and on, but, you get the drift…
Yep, that guy..and now he’ll be back, and we have to wonder how Christy Clark is gonna feel about that…she’s sunk almost as low in the polls, and his imminent return will make it so easy to do a comparison between them.., and I thought the RNC was the only excuse I had for popcorn….
Left Over 
Hi – you forgot one small thing which that terrific guy Gordon Campbell did. He cut help for the disabled to such an extent that many attempted suicide. We in the disabled community have never forgotten (though apparently everyone else has) what that vile excuse for a human being did to us with a shadow of compassion or care. And without a word of protest from Christy or the others in Cabinet. What a guy.
Alice..I apologize – you are absolutely right, including I believe cutting funding for the Talking Book program with the CNIB..he was a monster of epic proportions, ..with that sneering sociopathic smile..pretty disgusting excuse for a human being, but if I spent many hours writing them all down, I think I would still have left many of his egregious acts out..sins of omission, I assure you not on purpose..the list is just so long…just remembered another one, cutting funding for women’s shelters..what a class act…
That slimy scum’s coming back to town? Great, I suppose.
The last real BC premier without credibility problems was probably Mike Harcourt, and he resigned over someone else’s damn scandal. That’s how straight he was. He resigned cause of some fuc… jerk who was causing problems in the federal NDP, not the provincial party. And maybe that cursed BC. We let an honorable, even if not comparatively competent, leader go.
Since then, we’ve had dishonorable leader after leader who don’t gently go whether BC NDP or BC Liberal. They scrape and claw and fight to retain their positions. And they make BC a worse place to live, year by year. Cutback by cutback. Shi… crappy budget by crappy budget.
Fantastic. I’m so looking forward to the next election when it’ll be between Christy Clark, and Placeholder-for-Gregor-Robertson, I mean John Whatsisname.
Sad but true..although I think tat Robertson’s ambitions are bigger than the Province..and I would be willing to bet that he’d switch to the FedLibs in a New York minute..
Used to work for the City of Vancouver..and his party likes to pretend to be environmentally friendly and caring..but they are corporate stooges just like all the rest…
happy to trade union donations for labor peace..which is the only thing i liked about them..at least that was good for the workers…not a single strike in any of the several civic unions since he was first elected.