Filed under: Rant and Opine
Firings, resignations, and an unfathomable $40 million budget overrun may have you scratching your head and wondering how the health authorities in BC ever get anything done.
Will McMartin’s article in the Tyee will shed some light in the darkness. Just in case you didn’t know, even with the exits of Trevor Johnstone from Vancouver Coastal and of Keith Purchase from the Fraser health authorities, there are plenty of Campbell cronies in senior positions in the health bureaucracies, and almost to a man person, they have deep ties to the forestry sector.
Bill Tieleman’s post on the busy and possibly soon to be turfed Ida Goudreau, CEO of Vancouver Coastal Health Authority, sheds further light on some of the Campbell-forestry-health authority connections, as well as on how one highly placed woman makes semi-competent hay while the sun shines.
It appears Campbell likes to hire his cronies. It also appears that it doesn’t matter whether they have related experience, so long as he likes them. I’m not really sure that someone who has had executive oversight for the supply chain and throughputs of log pulping is the best candidate for a job like running a health authority. Management skills only transfer so far, while back scratching skills appear to have far more upside.
For the forseeable future, Campbell will continue to run the province the way he likes for the same reason a dog licks his nether regions…because he can. His party seems content to stick with his leadership, and the electorate doesn’t seem in the mood for a change in government. And BC continues to be the best place on earth, unless you get really sick.
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