Yesterday, I arbitrarily clicked on the BC Government Cabinet page. It looked like something was missing:

So I went and looked at the cache. It was Bill Bennett! That’s right, they scrubbed his name and picture, but didn’t change the tabling, keeping only a sad, empty hole where he used to be.

So yeah, Bennett finally got canned for not being a “team player”. Did they just realize that Bennett speaks out to the media all the time?

To commemmorate the event, have an interview I did with him in June for the Daily Courier about the resignation of former energy minister Blair Lekstrom. It’s classic Bennett, as he calls out the government for doing an “absolutely horrendous job of implementing the tax.”

“I frankly think this is about a lot more than individual politicians, it’s about a lot more than Blair Lekstrom, it’s about a lot more than Bill Bennett, it’s actually about a lot more than Gordon Campbell, too. It’s about the future of the province, this is what this is about. So my friend has decided that he’s better off if he sits as an independant, I respect that, but I think that I can have an impact if I stay on the team. That’s the only way that I can have an impact. I think that I can help fix the situation if I’m there doing the job.”