Ousting a special officer of the legislature from his post can turn
into a dirty business. So it’s best to have clean hands when you start
the job.
There are new questions about whether the B.C. Liberal caucus qualified
on that score when it came to picking the MLAs who would decide auditor
general John Doyle’s fate.
Liberal MLA Eric Foster, the chairman of the all-party committee that
decided against re-appointing Doyle, was cited in a confidential
management letter from the auditor general’s office last year over
inadequate documentation for a $67,000 renovation of his constituency
office. But he continued to sit on and chair the committee that decided
Doyle should be denied a second term.
That looks, feels and smells wrong.
But Foster has a surprising response to that concern. He denied Tuesday
ever seeing the letter, or knowing anything about the adverse comments
about lack of spending documentation. More
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3 comments:
Very poor judgement on Foster's part to move the constituency office to a property owned by his assistant's family , and then renovate at taxpayers' expense without supporting documentation. As if this isn't bad enough he then chairs a committee that turfs the very AG that fingered him! It is nice to see that some press, somewhere, is actually doing some investigative reporting. I would like to know specifically what renovations were done (if any) and if the lease cost is fair market value. After all, it is my money!
Gee, I sure could do wonderful renovations to my home for that large a sum of money. Seems excessive for a 'temporary' office.
Well at least there is one good thing, it is a Temporary office, lets hope so anyway.
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