Like no one saw this coming.
1. Former education minister Chris Decker:
"I can only see one possible way to redeem this, is for the minister to resign or for the premier to have her ... shuffled to another portfolio. I can't use words strongly enough."
Add to that Decker's cabinet colleague Dr. Phil Warren, who is quoted by VOCM as saying he was shocked by Burke's action. Warren noted that in his time he did not interfere in the selection of Dr. Art May.
2. Professor Paul Wilson, university senator and a prof at Grenfell (!!!):
“She can be as defiant as she wants — as she was in the scrum — but I’m sorry the legislation is absolutely clear and there is no room for interpretation of that simple sentence in English. There’s no legalese. There are no notwithstandings.”
3. From the Great Oracle in the Valley, otherwise known as the voice of the cabinet minister comes some predictable stuff from the other perspective:
- Finance minister and former attorney general Tom Marshall weighs in, backing his colleague in their complete misrepresentation of the law. No quotes but those who heard it were surprised at Marshall's continued insistence that up was down.
- The Premier was unavailable - as in out of the province, presumably - but an unidentified publicist from his office said the Premier did back the minister.
4. And in the same online story - headline: "Burke gets support from colleagues" - we find that opposition education critic Roland Butler doesn't like Burke's actions at all. That's not the only thing wrong with that online story but there's only so much space, even in a Bond Papers post.
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