Christy Clark hires her bagman, the Conservative Trojan Horse

You knew Ken Boessenkool was sniffing for a sweet insiders gig with Liberal Christy Clark with all his defence of her being the conservative saviour of BC and raising Alberta money for the Liberals (see here) as he was named Clark’s chief of staff today.

The reaction from the BC Conservatives:

Cummins: Clark should focus on the economy, not hiring super-lobbyists

“Premier Clark has appointed an Albertan super-lobbyist as her chief of staff,” said Cummins. “Ken Boessenkool has lobbied for some of the biggest companies in Canada including the Bank of Nova Scotia, Cameco and GlaxoSmithKline.”

 ”Instead of focusing on the economy, she is shuffling the deck chairs of the titanic. In 2012 British Columbians are facing the worst unemployment rate in the west, higher MSP, ICBC and Hydro rates, the highest tax bill for average families west of Quebec, and the highest gas taxes in Canada. Today is further proof that the only people getting ahead in Liberal BC are lobbyists, cronies and insiders.”

Investigator reporter Bob Mackin had one more addition to this list of lobbyist clients:

“Ken Boessenkool was hired to lobby for Taser… after the Dziekanski incident.”

Shows that he’ll fit right in with the immoral Christy Clark.

Globe’s lie of a headline: “Harper’s about-face on same-sex marriage”

Besides being God’s Country, a good thing about living here in BC is that sometimes I get to calmly sift through the news well after the Ottawa media’s initial hatchet jobs and this morning’s freak-out was classic.

The Globe and Mail quietly changed its first headline “Harper’s about-face on same-sex marriage for non-Canadians” to “Despite legal about-face, Harper has ‘no intention’ of reopening same-sex marriage” (see here)

PM Stephen Harper was clearly caught flat-footed on what looks to be a Justice Department legal opinion on the problem of foreign gay couples being married here as although Canada law allows that, it doesn’t allow them to be divorced here. This of course didn’t stop the Globe from running the above headline as a Harper conspiracy theory.

A voice of reason did emerge from the National Post’s Andrew Coyne:

“This seems like a good morning to calm down, check the facts, read the law, withhold judgement. You know, everything Twitter is good at”

To which I couldn’t help responding to Coyne:

“Might wanna send the leader of the party you voted for that advice”

After reading Liberal leader Bob Rae getting into the act:

“Canadians need to know that the advances we thought were secure are now under threat from the Harper neo-conservatives” (see here)

Now back to my morning coffee and continued reading.