Nos. 39 and 40
VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS
OF THE
Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
Thursday, June 2, 2011
VOTES AND PROCEEDINGS
OF THE
Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
Thursday, June 2, 2011
15 The Hon. R. Coleman moved —
A debate arose.Be it resolved that Mr. Craig James is hereby appointed Clerk of the Legislative Assembly; vice, Mr. E. George MacMinn, O.B.C., Q.C., as and from September 1, 2011, and that Mr. E. George MacMinn, O.B.C., Q.C., is hereby appointed as Clerk Consultant as and from September 1, 2011, for a term of twenty-four (24) months and that during that term shall, for all purposes, be deemed to be an Officer of the Legislative Assembly.And further that Ms. Kate Ryan-Lloyd be appointed Deputy Clerk of the Legislative Assembly and Chief Committee Clerk as and from September 1, 2011.
The House divided.
Motion agreed to on the following division:
Yeas—47 | |||
Rustad McIntyre Thomson Lekstrom Bell Yamamoto McNeil Chong Lake Polak McRae I. Black | Coell Hawes Krueger Letnick Sultan Barnett Lee Dalton Heed Cadieux Penner Bloy | Coleman Clark Falcon Bond de Jong Abbott Hansen MacDiarmid Yap Stilwell Hayer Cantelon | Les Pimm Hogg Howard Stewart Foster van Dongen Horne Bennett Thornthwaite Slater |
Nays—31 | |||
James S. Simpson Horgan Dix Ralston Kwan Fleming Lali | Austin Conroy Brar Donaldson D. Routley Hammell Elmore Bains | Mungall Karagianis Chandra Herbert Krog Simons Chouhan Popham Fraser | B. Routley Macdonald Coons D. Black Thorne Sather Huntington |
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Clerk Craig James nefarious actions of MISCONDUCT wouldn't have started happening, in earnest, until twenty-four months afterwards due to the ever presence of just-down-the-hall Clerk Consultant Mr. E. George MacMinn,
O.B.C., Q.C.,
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the Breaker News
James was still the acting head of Elections BC on June 2, 2011 when the BC Liberal government appointed him clerk of the house effective Sept. 1, 2011. The NDP opposition was furious because it was not consulted.
The Plecas Report said that James was the fourth-ranking clerk and that Izard would have been the natural choice to replace 50-year veteran clerk George MacMinn. SNIP
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1 comment:
Interesting. There are neither 47 named Yeas (36) nor 31 named Nays (24) listed, so the vote must be based on total votes per Party, whether or not the MLAs are present.
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