Geez, it is getting to the point where you don't even need to negotiate a salary with the Government any more. All you need to do is work a few months and hope that they fire you so that you can make all of your money on the "package".

I guess what it really comes down to is the fact that NO minister of the Campbell government has to be accountable for any of the screwups that they pull. When the Deloitte and Touche audit comes down for BCLC, just watch John Les start doing the Capital Two Step to hold on to his portfolio. Unfortunately the bar was greatly lowered when it came to ministerial accountability, the day that Gordo didn't step down as premier, and the people of this province re elected a man who in his term as premier was convicted of a criminal offense. That message I believe has resounded loud and clear with the Fiberals. In BC politics, you can do just about anything and there's no price to pay for it. Van Dongen tips off a fish farm of an impending inspection, wasn't forced to resign. Campbell gets busted in the Maui Owie, given a free pass.

Stan Hagen lets the convention centre costs sour above and beyond what the fast ferries cost the province, and no consequences for doing so. Of course, this is where the fiberal supporters go back to the "bad old 90s" argument. But the funnniest thing I've heard in the last while concerning the fiberals, comes from of all things, and advertisment for Christy Clark's soon to debut show on CKNW.

In it, she states, that in opposition, when the NDP wound up with a budget surplus, the opposition members would say, "you guys couldn't manage a popsicle stand." And yet, after recording the largest DEFICITS in BC history, we are supposed to believe that Carole Taylor and Gordon Campbell are the financial wunderkind of British Columbia, because we are now in surplus territory. Tell that to the people who are waiting in line for surgeries and health care.