Secrets, skeletons and scoundrels

Just look at the man, he looks haunted and gaunt with the weight of the secrets of the BC government. That's what it does to people - sucks their souls away. These aren't the kind of people you piss off. Good Campbell foot soldiers are well rewarded. Look at Holman's reports of the Ministry of Advanced Education bureaucrats scoring jobs with educational lobbying groups.

Bill, you're rather more generous in your praise of Loukidelis than I'm inclined to be. The OIPC is a mess and they do their best to obfuscate and delay important and treacherous investigations and requests for information from the most unaccountable of governments in our fair Confederation.

"Anyone who serves as the independent FOI commissioner should be disqualified from subsequently serving in a government position to ensure that the integrity of the office is unquestionable."

I couldn't agree more, this is just horse crap. Other offices don't shut down, people's Oath's aren't unsworn, delegations aren't yanked and things shouldn't grind to a halt because the top dog bails.

G West: I also agree with you, the Peter Principle is alive & well in the Premier's Office appointments. Just why would the AG want to have someone so questionably up to this very, very important role? It definitely bears consideration.

Moderators gone Gordoh

Gee, you think someone was talking about Lara Dauphinee and Gordon Campbell, Loukidelis,perhaps he`s infiltrated? Gordon Campbell is on the run,he doesn`t care how bad he looks anymore.

The most interesting thing I saw tonight was Gordon Campbell on the 6:00PM evening news, he appears to have grown a familiar little moustache,

I kid you not, maybe they`ll show the replay of the torch arriving in Penticton, all he now is to work on the salute!

Meant to say

All he needs now is to work on the salute,circa 1936

Maybe he forgot to shave,funny though,why would only that paticular moustache be apparent?

Freedom of information?

Ida Chong`s brother has been suspended from the Victoria police department for a IN CUSTODY ASSAULT,his second assualt in 18 months,his last assault he was sent to anger management, this latest assault is on video tape, Victoria police is asking Vancouver police to investigate,Ida Chong has made a statement "She stands by her brother" I`ll bet!

Freedom of info? Lets see the tape!

There is is a growing public anger.....................

.......towards Gordo and his band of footpads and the public needs the truth. Gordo is El Supremo and now has sabotaged the FOI office for fear that the truth will come out.

Every man has his price (and women too) and Gordo flashed a fancy and high paid bureaucratic job his way and he took it.

We live in evil times, governed by evil people; who hire evil people to spin the truth or act as police. How long will it take the public to wake from their stupor and see what damage El Gordo has done. When the public realizes how evil and vile the Gordon Campbell Liberals have been and are, they will seek revenge and not at the polls.

There is an old saying about

There is an old saying about keeping your enemies in the tent so they are peeing out not in. The guy was an irratent to Gordo so he got bought, but for less pay than he had before as an independent officer. He can now be dropped without warning. So why would a seeingly sharp guy buy into Gordo's crew. Sad way to end a career, sucking up to a bunch of weasels

With respect, those edits are very curious

Why were those comments redacted?

In fact, the excised words expressed the 'OPINION' that:
a) as an 'administrator' he has no experience with a department of the size and complexity that he will handle as Deputy Attorney General. For anyone familiar with the relative size of the two organizations this is hardly earth shattering - it's simply pointing out a FACT.

The formation redacted in c) was, again, an opinion about Loukidelis - it referred to the way the POI office actually runs and how investigations proceed. And, again, it makes a legitimate point about whether or not the man is up to the job of being the top justice civil servant in the province.

4) This redaction simply refers to another 'opinion' about the man's operating style and, acknowledges that despite his brilliance, he's not an easy man to work for. Again, it's an informed 'opinion' and nothing more.

The last redaction was also far from earth-shattering - the opinion that the current Campbell cabinet might very well like NOT TO HAVE Loukidelis continue on as FOI commissioner at this particular time. Again, it's an OPINION - pls note the words 'I'd say...' at the beginning of the sentence.

Additionally, that same opinion has been expressed in both opinion pieces and news stories in virtually all the media that have covered these appointments.

Surely the editors can't have missed them.

Doing my own editing

That should have been FOI office in para 3 of my comment above, not POI, obviously.

I'd also point out to off-the-radar that Mr Loukidelis has been appointed DEPUTY Attorney General - not AG.

The shorthand in the ministry is DAG for Deputy Attorney General; the shorthand for the Attorney General is generally 'ATTORNEY' – although outside the ministry AG is much more common.

That said, I'd suggest that his appointment will be short-lived. I doubt he'll be around long enough to prove whether or not he'll be competent in the position. He had already been thinking of retiring, as most readers no doubt are aware.

Both the BC and the federal

Both the BC and the federal governments are only following the scriptural dogmas licencing their crimes by our university economics departments.

The Priesthood of the Money God !

Interesting news how some of our American friends are beginning to wake up

Ed Deak

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Date: 24 January 2010 10:29:37 AM
Subject: US Veterans Today: CALL FOR IMMEDIATE ARREST OF 5 SUPREME COURT JUSTICES FOR TREASON

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2010/01/22/call-for-immediate-arrest-of-5-supreme-court-justices-for-treason/

CALL FOR IMMEDIATE ARREST OF 5 SUPREME COURT JUSTICES FOR TREASON

January 22, 2010 by Gordon Duff ·

THE FIVE THAT STAND AGAINST ALL AMERICANS, THE “MAFIA” JUDGES

By Gordon Duff STAFF WRITER/Senior Editor

Five members of the Supreme Court declared that a “corporation” is a person, not a “regular person” but one above all natural laws, subject to no God, no moral code but one with unlimited power over our lives, a power awarded by judges who seem themselves as grand inquisitors in an meant to hunt down all hertics who fail to serve their god, the god of money.

Their ruling has made it legal for foreign controlled corporations to flush unlimited money into our bloated political system to further corrupt something none of us trust and most of us fear. The “corporation/person” that the 5 judges, the “neocon” purists, have turned the United States over to isn’t even American. Our corporations, especially since our economic meltdown are owned by China, Russia and the oil sheiks along with a few foreign banks. They don’t vote, pay taxes, fight in wars, need dental care, breathe air, drive cars or send children to school. Anyone who thinks these things are people is insane. Anyone who would sell our government to them is a criminal and belongs in prison. There is nothing in the Constitution that makes this “gang of five” bribe sucking clowns above the law. There is nothing in the Constitution that even mentions corporations much less gives them status equal to or greater than the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches of government.

Veterans Today Senior Editor Gordon Duff is a Marine combat veteran and regular contributor on political and social issues.

Happy Australia Day!

"The shorthand in the ministry is DAG "

Strewth, there's a bonzer acronym for taking the piss out of the bloody galahs that keep cocking-up our great country. Fair dinkum mate.

G,day all.

Bill, you are too kind

"Loukidelis is an honourable public servant, and I believe he will continue to act in that manner in his new position."

This is egregious. The conflict of interest is so blatant, it demonstrates that ethics on both sides are non-existent. Loukidelis abdicated any claim to honour.

Freedom of information

http://archives.starbulletin.com/2003/03/25/news/story8.html

Are you kidding us?

"Loukidelis is an honourable public servant, and I believe he will continue to act in that manner in his new position."

Whereas I have no reason to believe, and no reason whatsoever to think, he will remain honourable. In fact, Loukidelis has changes his stripes already.

The truth is that the world

The truth is that the world is sinking deeper under global corporate dictatorship every day, encouraged and enforced by pimp governments calling themselves "free enterprise".

Ed Deak.

So Dorothy...

...have you got your tongue in your cheek ,,,again.

Groundbreaking FOI requests

I am very interested in what the FOI requests were which lead to this abrupt stall tactic and transfer of the commissioner. Perhaps FOIs related to numbers of H1N1 positive samples as per BCCDC, or maybe chemtrail and geo-engineering FOIs? Keep the FOIs coming!

FOI Corruption, no suprise!

How could anybody trust any of the information coming out of the FOI office? Several years ago I filed some requests for information. To my dismay I found out that a social worker had recorded in an intake that during a long distance phone conversation with that social worker I admittedly confessed I had assaulted my 8 year old son and agreed to attend an anger management course.
When I read a copy of this intake I was sickened and questioned whether I had lost my marbles or not as I had been engaged in a lengthy divorce and custody dispute and had no recollection of any phone call with any social worker.
Upon reviewing my phone bill there was no record of any long distance phone calls on my bill made to that government agency. My next step to rebuke this complete falsification was to request through FOI legislation, a copy of that ministry’s phone bill indicating any long distance phone calls to my home.
The Ministry of Family and Children unequivocally stated that they could not provide any evidence of long distance phone calls because they KEPT NO SUCH RECORDS and received no long distance call logs from Telus.
Further to this I filed an appeal to the FOI Commissioner about these records and my appeal was denied because as the Commissioner informed me that indeed no such long distance phone logs existed and therefore the information I requested was not available.
Finally in desperation I requested from Telus a copy of a log containing any calls from that ministry to my home. Telus informed me that they could not provide a call log but they informed me that the Ministry of Family and Children did in deed have logs of long distance phone calls.
I appealed directly to the Minister of Family and Children, Lois Boone, and finally received conformation there was no phone call to my home according to The Ministry of Family and Children’s phone logs. This entire debacle took 18 months.
So, if this amount of incompetence and avoidance was used to protect the integrity of a frontline social worker one can only imagine how corrupt the Commissioners Office of Freedom of Information really is. Incidentally, even after it was proved no conversation or phone call took place to corroborate the social worker’s intake report the Ministry refused to remove the false intake record of child abuse.

"Lucky Luke"

The decision this man made to betray the confidence of British Columbians by taking a position in government opposite to the expectation would never deem him qualified to be "admirable" - given his last act (leaving) was this one.