Smyth: Fears over First Nations relations as premier looks set to can commission – The Province
March 29, 2015
It started out as an apparent case of petty political revenge by Premier Christy Clark against a former rival who ran against her for the Liberal Party leadership.
But Clark threw everyone for a loop last week when she revealed the real reason for cancelling George Abbott’s appointment as the new head of the B.C. Treaty Commission.
It wasn’t because Abbott accused her leadership campaign of “outright fraud” for signing up a cat as a Liberal member back in 2011. It wasn’t because he said she had a “Kama Sutra” of flip-flopping on policy positions.
No, Clark wasn’t just throwing her old cabinet rival under the bus. The entire Treaty Commission itself is in trouble.
