Attention

Calling all PAB employees. We must find a way to tie this fiasco to the Fast Cats, or Bingogate, or anything else that will deflect our ineptitude. How many more screw-ups must we endure before the BC Liberal Party admits that they are the most inept government ever to surface on the planet?

You are not seeing what passes here (it could be 'El Condor')

"...the most inept government ever to surface on the planet?"

No, no, they're not inept. They're doing politics. Throw someone to the lions once in a while, and thereby convince us dupes that the rest of the edifice is clean as a whistle. Are you convinced?

As dorothy says...

This Government is not inept. In fact they are rather adroit at what they do. And what they do is use the system for their friend's and their own personal gain. BC has become a banana republic wherein those in power act as though they are above the law.

In my opinion it's time to clear house in Victoria. With 3.5 years left to the next election how this can be achieved is unknown to me. Yet if we let his kind of behavior fester things will only get worse in the long run.

The Vitoria newspaper has a

The Vitoria newspaper has a front page article today( friday) It seems the provicne is still paying the health firm under cloud. Burns and his company are making 400,000 working with four regional health care outfits.

Falcon was telling the house a couple of days ago that Adrian was wrong as usual. Seems Falcon was full of BS which is pretty normal for him. Adrian was asking some pretty sharp questions. Hope all the folks who voted Liberal are pleased with the results, because the rest of us, sure arn't.

Corruption at the highest level

and the Executive Financial Officer along with the Senior Financial Officer stood by and did nothing.

Clearly, wealth is to be had if you are part of the Senior ranks of the Ministry of Health. No wonder the real health workers are cash strapped.

I think both the NDP and the Liberals wear this one, and Adrien Dix calls for a public enquiry. I say we call for a major Police and Judicial investigation and charge all who either were involved or failed in their duty.

This a mess!

Minister Falcon Says

"Health Minister Kevin Falcon says the allegations are about a handful of people who may have acted improperly"
"Falcon later said he hadn't realized what Dix was asking about until he spoke with his staff."
"There were alleged irregularities and serious allegations, he said.'
"Stressing that nothing is yet proven in court and no charges have yet been laid, Falcon said, "In this case it would appear that there were a handful of people that the allegations suggest were involved in some very nefarious behavior that is totally unacceptable."
"As long as I've been in government, my biggest concern has always been technology investments," Falcon said. "That's the area that can always get large organizations, both in the private sector and government in a bag full of trouble if they're not very, very careful."
The Ministerial credo "Hear no evil, See no Evil, Speak Plausible Deniability"
In case it has escaped anyone's attention the buck ($ yes it was a pun) stops at the ministerial level. As Kevin Falcon is the Health Minister he is the leader, the grand Pulbah, the buck stops at him. The Enron debacle for all its negative impact did result in one positive outcome, simply put, ignorance of the activities of those you lead is no defense. Minister Falcon, man up. be a leader, accept responsibility of your position. The government has, in theory, one of the best procurement systems in the free world. This could not happen if the governments contract and procurement policies and procedures were followed. The only way they were not followed would have to be due to high level interference. The Comptroller General should not have to tell you this. After all did you not come from the highways Ministry. A Ministry that deals with very large contracts. Hmm Maybe another rock to be overturned!!

R.C., about Minister Falcon

You'd be interested in the big story on Peter Kiewit & Sons, the Sea-to-Sky Highway, the Port Mann Bridge ... at:

http://lailayuile.wordpress.com/2009/10/09/laila-yuile-says-time-to-start-those-tolls-on-the-sea-to-sky-highway/

Minister Falcon might be having an uncomfortable long weekend contemplating how he got out of Transportation and into Health. How lucky can a guy be?

North of Hope

Understanding that the Campbell government considers anyone east or north of the Fraser Valley is to be considered beyond Hope; I rather like the fact that you don't label yourself as such. I am rather sad that the Premier's minions seem to be giving one-way bus tickets to DTES people wishing to check out our small communities. It has been dreadful watching our crime go up and our already reduced (sometimes removed altogether) resources for helping these folks being stretched beyond hope.

That Herman's Hermit poster seems to maintain the same cadence, formatting and writing style of the infamous Luke. The HH poster seems to have Luke's twist for just about anything. I would think that the BC Libs would promote a party like Vision for those that are not particularly loyal to party lines (left or right); yep, they may even be able to split the anti-BC Liberal vote and sneak up through the middle. I wonder why HH chose this handle? Could this moniker have special meaning?

this article is only the tip of the iceberg

"...what they do is use the system for their friend's and their own personal gain. BC has become a banana republic wherein those in power act as though they are above the law".

I have witnessed firsthand the damage being wrought in health and social systems by a seemingly endless succession of consultants hired to implement restructuring, and it seemed as though no one was watching and keeping things checked and balanced. I have witnessed valuable program budgets being eaten up by these consultants. Consultants that never tell us anything we do not already know. Not long after they arrive, though, workloads quadruple and valuable services and programs disappear. Now it is clear that it has been going on as far up as it goes in our government. We are being taken to the cleaners and services for vulnerable populations are being decimated. This article is only the tip of the iceberg. Go deeper folks, go deeper.

Ladze: you are saying similar things

My wife works for VIHA (Or VI Ha Ha as she calls it)
So I hear daily reports of how well restructuring is going:"&%****##@!" sort of thing. Restructuring has been going on for a long time. In the early '90s I got to overnight (on my way to aid work in west africa) in a fairly nice hotel in Vanc 'cause she was attending some seminar about how the "System" (read health care) would play out in the next few decades. Naturally enough whatever she was told at the seminar did not happen (maybe some of it did who cares?) Later in life we both went off to R.S.A. and worked for Free State Health for a couple of years - strange experience but a good prompt for what we are watching here today. We saw the whites from Bloemfotain show up in our (adopted) black homeland hospital and drop off directives and hop back in their S.U.V.s
But I digress: what I really wanted to call attention to was:
http://earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/stndon/wf-fo/index-eng.php?day=11&filter=autoscaled&month=10&station=first&tpl_region=swbc&type=network&year=2009&hour=9#SECTION_1
Episodic tremor and slip is back with bells on and we will soon be hearing about it on CBC

A Little Help From My Friends

Harper sings a tune which rings true of both the Liberals and Conservatives when it comes to fraud and corruption. And surprised I say not as my only question would be if the Mounties had the cash to investigate all these guys and their questionable undertakings which ones would come up fraud free. Come now we have watched the premier sleeze throught lowering the standards while making fraud, corruption an everyday norm and I'm thinking the numbers are small indeed but what do you expect from a government who sets itself above the law along with a few close friends with their eye on the prize as there is nothing worry about as the laws only apply to everyone else.

Corruption

Now if this were the NDP Gordo would be howlering for a re-election but it is Gordo and he seems too think he can do No wrong. What we need is a general strike and bring the Provincial Government to there knees it has happened before in British Columbia, but then the people all stood together in SOLIDARITY. Know people are afraid too stand together in anything for fear of losing there jobs. But the Liberals need a boot out of public office.

There are other ways to work together on e-health!

I worked for many years as a e-systems contractor in the BC Ministry of Health. While I certainly appreciated the income flow, I was less than impressed with the way business was being done. I think we, here in BC (and Canada) have much to learn from other countries who are able to accomplish so much (related to e-Governance) with so few financial resources. I summarize my recent experiences in one such country (Philippines) in this blog post '27 ways Filipinos create successful, collaborative e-governance projects' (http://www.collaborativejourneys.com/?p=1834).