O Claude, why hast thou forsaken us?

Yesterday the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA) released a report that exposes the real reason for B.C.'s declining welfare rates, and Employment Minister Claude Richmond exposed his increasing rate of acting like a prick:

"It's the same report that comes out every year, just a different cover, they are opposed to an employment-based welfare program and we are not." Of course Richmond would argue it's the same report every year, what self-respecting Fraser Institute disciples like the BC Liberals would read anything that comes from the CCPA? As for Richmond advocating an 'employment-based' program, this page realizes that Victoria is a long way from the rest of the country, but I'm pretty sure Canada already has one. In fact, just last week they made their presence very well known to this page.

This page didn't realize it during the Liberals first term, but Richmond's predilection for polarization and callousness probably served him well as Speaker, allowing government MLA's to taunt, harass, and abuse Joy MacPhail and Jenny Kwan at will. I suppose with 33 Opposition MLA's this time around, Richmond wasn't going to get away with sitting on his hands, so perhaps the role of a poor-bashing cabinet minister is better for him.