Christine Clark tells on herself, claiming to be an outsider, squeaky-clean, from the ‘real world’. As education minister she administered the disastrous Liberal policies that caused today’s crisis in our schools. As minister of social services she administered what has become the crisis in child and family poverty and homelessness. Her instant resignation at the police raid on the legislature and the arrest of Basi and Virk, along with the Liberal stonewalling of that trial for six years, allowed her to evade answering questions about her part in the BC Rail scandal, and her husband’s back-room Liberal connections. As deputy premier she supported her mentor Gordon Campbell.

Neither she nor any candidate can distance themselves from the Liberal dismantling of our public infrastructure: privatization, in whole or part, of BC Rail, BC Ferries, BC Hydro, BC Health services, schools, bridges, highways and public transit. It’s apparently OK to ‘tax and spend’ to enrich global corporations, but not to ensure the well-being of BC businesses and working people. OK to sell out our resources, use our taxes for corporate welfare, and deny the rights of Indigenous Nations. OK to limit—shades of Harper—sittings of the Legislature.

In now claiming family values, BC’s Sarah Palin reveals herself to be addicted to the Liberal practice of pulling the wool over our eyes, of the hypocrisy that has made an “idiocracy” of our democratic institutions.