EDITORIAL – Premier Horgan off to a good start on his first day

Posted on July 19, 2017 in Editorials, Page One, Rothenburger // 1 Comment

John Horgan signs in as premier. (Image: Screenshot)

An Armchair Mayor editorial by Mel Rothenburger.

CONSIDERING all the doomsday prophecies and predictions of instant failure for the NDP-Green alliance, Premier John Horgan got off to a good start yesterday.

His cabinet is roughly the same size as Christy Clark’s was, but he took a page from Justin Trudeau’s book on gender and ethnic equity, appointing 11 men and 11 women, including several visible minorities and B.C. ‘s first female First Nations cabinet minister.

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1 Comment on EDITORIAL – Premier Horgan off to a good start on his first day

Lawrence Beaton // July 20, 2017 at 8:46 AM // Reply

It was only the first day, how about some of his appointments to public office, since the first day?

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