A senior provincial Liberal and a number of mid-level bureaucrats tell us the Campbell administration will be serving up a light legislative meal during the upcoming fall session (which begins Oct. 4), cooking up more substantial bills for the spring sitting. Of course, the only ones who know for sure are the premier, his office and the finance minister. But if those sources are correct, Gordon Campbell and Gary Collins may want to rethink that plan.

After all, the Liberals were already looking like they had put their agenda on a diet during the last legislative session, introducing almost no newsworthy bills (resulting in much hissing and pissing in the press gallery). And if the administration doesn't deliver something beefier in the fall, commentators will be saying Premier Gordon Campbell doesn't actually have an agenda - not something the sounds good eight months before an election. Moreover, if there are more scandals in the fall, the Liberals will have nothing they can use to divert the public's attention.