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BLAST FROM THE PAST: Memo alibi sounds fishy: Cops investigate authenticity of Dix’s document to file
The Province March 25, 1999 Ever since the RCMP raided Glen Clark’s house in the great casino caper, the premier has done nothing but duck, dodge and evade the tough questions. And for good reason: Clark knows he has no reasonable explanation to offer for how one of his best friends — deck-building handyman Dimitrios [...]
BLAST FROM THE PAST: Dix a quietly powerful adviser to Clark
Vancouver Sun March 25, 1999 VICTORIA — Adrian Dix is hardly a household name, but he’s likely touched most homes in B.C. As Premier Glen Clark’s chief of staff, he was politically one of the three most powerful men in the province. But the shy, bespectacled 35-year-old, who has worked for cabinet ministers in Ottawa [...]
BLAST FROM THE PAST: Adviser’s convenient memo raises some questions: In a notoriously paper-shy government, the document from Glen Clark’s closest aide makes for a fascinating examination – by Vaughn Palmer
Vancouver Sun March 5, 1999 VICTORIA – One of the more convenient documents ever produced by a government in trouble is the single sheet of paper released by Premier Glen Clark this week in support of his claim that he had nothing to do with the awarding of a dubious casino licence in Burnaby. The [...]
BLAST FROM THE PAST: Secretary fiercely loyal: Insiders: Adrian Dix premier’s chief political fixer – by Anne Owens
National Post March 5, 1999 Adrian Dix, the man whose internal memo is being held up as evidence of Glen Clark’s innocence in the casino investigation, is the most likely candidate to come to the rescue of the B.C. premier. Mr. Dix is known as the premier’s chief political fixer, a fiercely political and yet [...]
BLAST FROM THE PAST: Not power smart: a Hydrogate lawsuit embarrasses Clark and reveals the crown’s politicization – By Derek DeCloet
Report Newsmagazine January 11, 1999 When the B.C. Liberals unveiled the Hydrogate scandal the day before Glen Clark became premier, it looked as if his residency in the office would be short. Coming just months after the Nanaimo bingo scandal had forced out Mike Harcourt, Hydrogate-in which NDP insiders were given an exclusive chance to [...]
BLAST FROM THE PAST: Clark clings to despised capital tax – By Les Leyne
Times – Colonist, February 6, 1996 New Democrat leadership candidate Glen Clark is using the corporation capital tax as a pre-election warmup, but the B.C. Central Credit Union wants him to ditch it, not play with it. Clark was reviled throughout the B.C. business world three years ago when as finance minister he took a special [...]
BLAST FROM THE PAST: Failed NDP policies bring a search for scapegoats: Glen Clark is sticking to his vision of economic growth and job creation through big spending, high taxes and more debt by Vaughn Palmer
Vancouver Sun, January 14, 1998 VICTORIA – From the outset of his time in government, Glen Clark swore to stick with policies that would encourage economic growth, investment and “jobs, jobs, jobs.” As a young minister of finance in the Mike Harcourt administration, Mr. Clark encouraged a huge increase in the public debt, claiming it [...]
BC Liberals Launch Campaign Highlighting Dix Record and Urging Him to Come Clean
For Immediate Release VANCOUVER – The BC Liberal Party today launched a television and online campaign highlighting Adrian Dix’s economic record in the 1990s and calling for accountability for his current tax-and-spend promises. “Adrian Dix was a top advisor to the government in the 1990s when British Columbia’s economy went from first in Canada to [...]
Time For Some Answers From The NDP
The World Today Editorial ON CKNW, December 1st, 2011 - http://bit.ly/vS9QAS It’s time for answers from the NDP….not just drive-by smears. It’s time for Adrian Dix and his critics to put forth solutions, tell us how much that solution would cost, and where the money is coming from. Not once but twice this week right here [...]
Interesting Opinion on Adrian Dix’s Image by Vaughn Palmer
Vaughn Palmer in his column on December 1, 2011 wrote: “Dix also insists he’s just being himself: “What you have to be in politics, the thing that matters most, is just to be authentic. That’s what I try and be.” He also discounts the idea that there’s anything contrived about what many observers have described [...]
