Hear, hear, dianavan. I believe Svend has been good for BC on balance. Not this month, though.

Still, he stacks up pretty well, warts and all, against the incumbent encumbrances of my odd-shaped riding (since its reshaping, heavily populated rich conservative West Van has consistently outvoted sparse rural working-class Sunshine Coast population). I don't see our reps admitting stuff even after being faced with evidence against them. (But I don't recall hearing of anything this bad.)

I don't think it's "common" for a thief to make a public announcement of his crime.

Interesting how the slightly-left NDP party gets mentioned continually in coverage of scandals involving its members, while media quickly find other emphases when the corporation-friendly Liberal and Conservative parties' politicians get their fingers dirty.
Then of course the emphasis is all the other way when something looks good: if it's a Liberal move it's news; if the NDP did it, it's dismissed. The fast ferries (locally built under an NDP government) are an infuriating example: a consistent effort to describe them as failures culminated in a rather irregular distress sale by the next government.
Wonder if this could have anything to do with most of the media being owned by big business, and the rest of them depending a lot on advertising sales? Could editors and reporters be influenced by considerations of job security, advertisers, and flak from upstairs when deciding what's "news" and what spin to give it? Nah.