Also those not familiar with B.C. events should check out the notes. . Today we temporarily leave the issue of free speech and return to the scandal news. The NDP once asserted that they were free of scandal, and got elected on a platform of clean and open government. In practice this has meant that they have cleaned up and that they have been very open in telling us everything they think we should know. But according to the NDP, we just have to understand that some appropriate exceptions need to be made.
Ethics is subject to the same sort of limitations as free speech and human rights. . .
Limerick 021 . All high pols should avoid the same bed. This applies just to Grit and Socred . . . . Of course, we must give due weight to the defense of the NDP, which is that things used to me much worse, and that even the scandals are more wholesome now. Following is an explanation why this is true. . . .