From: "Alan Cairns" 


The NDP in BC has gone through four premiers in six years (or 6 in seven
years if you prefer). BC politics is nationally known as a circus. The
current incumbents, the NDP (Labour) Party, are running approval ratings of
about 11%, and they will certainly be thrown out in the next election. Then
we'll get a new scandal.

The airplane flight thing wasn't a BC thing. It was the Federal Attorney
General, who was overheard by a reporter in the 'plane. His remarks tended
to suggest that he had reached a premature conclusion in the APEC hearings,
and may have attempted to influence the judge. The AG is gone, but the
hearings stagger on.
--
Alan
alancairns{at}dccnet.com

"Randall Parker"  wrote in message
news:MPG.13285e4beb766e4498a013{at}news.barkto.com...
> John,
>
> I've been reading articles about the party in power in B.C. You've had,
> what, 4 provincial premiers (right title?) in 6 years? Is that right?
> Any chance that the public will decide that that party ought to go by
> the waysides in the next election? The power struggle to replace the
> last tossed out idiot is itself pathetic.
>
> Didn't one of the guys get recorded in an airplane flight describing
> fixing a business deal for a political supporter? I forget the details.
> Sounds similar to what Clinton has done to the Democratic Party.
>
> In , raging John_Beamish{at}dmr.ca John
> Beamish expostulated:
> > This one arrived today.  Substitute Chretien for Clinton and you'll
> > discover my sympathies.
> >
> > This is an imaginary situation, but it may be interesting deciding
> > what you would do.  The situation:
> >
> > You are in the Midwest, and there is a huge flood in progress.  Many
> > homes have been lost, water supplies compromised, and infrastructure
> > destroyed.
> >
> > Let's say you're a photographer out getting still photos for a news
> > service, traveling alone, looking for particularly poignant scenes.
> >
> > If you were to stumble across Bill Clinton struggling to keep from
> > being swept away in a raging river and you had a choice of rescuing
> > him or getting a Pulitzer prize-winning photograph of the death of a
> > President, what shutter speed would you use?
> >
> >
> >

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