Tuesday, September 4, 2012

We deserve the politicians we elect...

In his column today - Vancouver Province columnist Gordon Clark argues for reasons why the public should accept the very politicians we elect.

A hard-hitting quote from the column:

Politics, which once at least tried to be about public service and developing good policies for fellow citizens, is now a blood sport played by far too many career politicians, often with few academic or real-world accomplishments and beholden to special-interest backers.

And so we have a premier who didn't finish university, an opposition leader who's had almost no work life outside politics and a justice/finance minister with a community college diploma. No one better qualified - or actually qualified - wants the job

View the full column here

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