what about prayer?

Oh dolphin. Still spreading hate I see. Let me ask you two things:

a. how does this decision impact "every" student in the province?

b. would you have supported that a bible reading or morning christian prayer be part of the ciriculum?

Why

Should we not be asking why the government's lawyers are stressed out even though the A.G.'s Legal Services Branch has more than doubled in size over the last ten years? Has the province or the provincial government itself grown at the same rate or are there other factors at play?

Is it possible that government conduct across the board is creating more legal liability issues?

downloading expenses

It sounds to me like what they have done with other things - mandated changes then freeze or reduce the budget. Obviously, this government is messing with people's lives so much that they face legal challenges with many of the things they do. With this new model, they can force changes upon a Ministry then when those changes are challenged, the Ministry will have to pay for it from a frozen budget - even though the government couldn't hold the costs down when it was all in one pot.

Yeah, I get it. The Libs say, "If the little guy gets angry with what we [the present gov't] have done it is too bad, because he will never have the funds to challenge us. If, however, we step on one of the big ole good ole boys' toes, then we'll have to pay up because we wrote shoddy regulations that may have hurt him. That's OK, because the money will be going to one of our boys anyway. It'll just mean that the poor and undeserving have less."

further to my above

If the libs keep working to destroy unions, then the working stiffs will no longer be able to muster the financail clout to challenge poorly conceived workplace regs/changes.

I would be interested to hear/read how the moneys have had to be spent. I wonder if part of it is because the various ministries are facing grievances from workers who cannot possibly do the work that has been downloaded onto them by increased workloads caused by reductions of staffs/budgets. ...or maybe unsafe conditions in hospitals because work is farmed out to untrained/unsuitable subcontrators ...or more deaths caused by the largest rise in logging accidents for decades, because of relaxed regulations and poorly trained workers.

Maybe legal fees are going up because the government is trying to think of every possible way it can screw the electorate (their bosses) out of every last resource the province (the electorate) used to own. Taking the electorate to the cleaners is nasty work, and it must take quite a number of unscrupulous lawyers (requiring big bucks) to get it just right.

I feel like I am the witness to the worst government that the people of British Columbia has ever had. After generations of generally good stewardship, the Libs have given away the family farm to hucksters for a few shiny trinkets. Now I know how the inhabitants of Manhattan must have felt after their chief made a deal with the Europeans. I feel so violated!

Worse than that

This government doesn't care if it gets advice that what they're contemplating is only quasi-legal or violates precedent, in my view.

One of the reasons the cost of legal services has increased is the amount of solicitor work that is been subbed out to their friends instead of being done in house where it almost always was in the past.

There are many ways to avoid scrutiny and when you have about 200 spin-doctors on Order in Council leash you get the message out you want to get out. Most of the time.

The A.G.'s Agenda

A few years ago, when I first started contemplating the idea of suing our government myself, I approached one of the A.G.’s lawyers requesting a copy of the submission they had made to the Supreme Court of Canada as intervener in the Odhavji v. Woodhouse case. There was a rather concerned reaction, but in due course I received the document.

A few weeks ago I contacted George Copley, QC, with a similar request, for the A.G.’s intervener submission in the Little Sisters case that the SCC recently decided. As Mr. Copley already knew that I now have a similar case underway (for which his ministry is a defendant rather than intervener), he responded promptly with a copy.

That our provincial A.G. makes a practice of appearing as an intervener in such cases before the SCC I think might raise some questions about their workload and agenda. As my own case progresses perhaps I will be able to share some insight into those and other questions about the A.G.'s operation.

Public policy process

Perhaps I am not the only one who fails to see how expressing a concern about the public policy process surrounding an important curriculum (not ciriculum, ubiquitous) change constitutes "spreading hate". This is nothing but cheap shot newspeak. Orwell would be proud.
To answer the two questions, though, the curriculum mandates what teachers must teach, and since the proposed changes affect every grade level and curriculum stream, every student in the province, including those in private schools who receive funding on the proviso that the BC curriculum be delivered, will be affected.
For the second question, I do remember when a daily bible reading, the Lord's Prayer, and weekly religious instruction delivered by a minister were part of the public school curriculum (in Ontario). People who want that today, however, should enrol their children in a parochial school.
What this has to do with government lawyers abandoning cases escapes me,though. Let's try to stay on topic.

Lawyers battle police in street-fighting

in Pakistan. Talk about lawyers being stressed out!

Unbelievable! All those gents in suits, white shirts, neck-ties, out in the streets hurling stones at the riot police. Then getting themselves beaned in reply.

Because why? Well, it'd be nice if they'd been upset over the fighting in Afghanistan or the plight of the poor or greenhouse gas emissions. But no.

Pakistani lawyers were fighting mad because the Chief Justice has been fired.

Interesting, eh?