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From the Legislature today:
On the ethnic outreach memo controversy:
The Premier has made a categorical assertion, not weeks ago, days ago, that this was not the case. Now, I appreciate that new information may come forward, and the Premier may feel she was incorrect a number of days ago. But that information clearly was wrong.
So what we need from the Premier today, I think, is at least an acceptance, an understanding that what was said, that the assertion that was made by the Premier that this did not involve her staff — it involved somebody else, but not the Premier’s office — was incorrect. Will the Premier confirm that today?
The Premier:
“I would ask the member to be careful to characterize what I said, which was that there is no evidence that I’m aware of that my staff was involved in this. As far as I know, my staff were only involved in creating it. That is what I said, and that remains true.”
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How can anyone be involved in a program that was never implemented? This post is nonsensical in its implication.
so the premier had nothing to apologize for, at all, then?
Well, Scott, it’s a quote directly from Hansard. One paragraph after another.
There’s no implication that I’m making, aside from what the quote itself makes.
I put Premier Clark’s response through the “Bla Bla Meter” and amazingly got the result that it contains no appreciable level of “bullshit English.” Is the meter correct or is it just broken? http://www.blablameter.com/index.php
it’s one thing to suggest a plan was never implemented. it’s quite another to look at some quick win events in the last year or so to decide if any of the plan did see the light of day:
http://2010goldrush.blogspot.ca/2013/03/reading-tea-leaves-pondering-end-of.html