Coleman exonerated

Posted September 30, 2008 by Sacha Peter - Link
Category: Scandal

The conflict of interest commissioner clears Rich Coleman.

The NDP will try to claim that the commissioner was somehow partisan in this decision, but it will not stick and this issue will be politically dead with respect to the May 2009 election.

The residual “known unknowns” for the BC Liberals revolve around the special prosecutor investigation of John Les and the ALR rezoning, and any resolution concerning the legislature raids approximately five years ago (which is going on at a snail’s pace).

Another uncontrollable variable will be the state of the economy and the commodity markets (of which BC is vulnerable to economically) but it will be impossible to predict until closer to the election date.

I highly suspect that if the election dates were not fixed there would have been an election called by now. As a humourous note, it would have been amusing if Premier Gordon Campbell said to the Union of the BC Municipalities (UBCM) that “We have lost the confidence of the BC Legislature. I will be going to the Lieutenant Governor and dissolving the legislature”, which is roughly equivalent to what the Prime Minister said before pulled the plug on parliament.