There is insufficient representation of other perspectives, resulting in a bitterly divided province. For real hostility, try sitting between Fisheries Minister David Anderson and Glen Clark on a flight to Ottawa to meet with Jean Chretien over salmon and Nanoose Bay. The story goes that a BC government personnel officer was having trouble with a government employee who disagreed with the way staff were expected to compromise their integrity by meekly complying with the government s unethical practices. The employee responded, The best team players of this century lived in Germany in 1939. They were called Nazis.
Team play without ethics is humanity s worst nightmare.
The employee no longer works for the B.C. government. He followed his conscience while the personnel officer followed his paycheque. Of course, personnel officers are known as the Gestapo of most corporate cultures. Witness the always evil Catbert in the Dilbert comic strip. Dilbert has become a rallying cry for oppressed corporate employees throughout North America.