Dear Editor:

About 12 to 13 years ago, an assistant to a big shot Chief Executive Officer, drunk with power, ran amok and mowed down a band of dissidents.

When asked why, she matter-of-factly stated it was the CEO’s wish.

The shareholders weren’t impressed and wanted amends. Lawyers were immediately summoned, on both sides, each one expecting a quick end to this fiasco.

The lawyers, obviously, knew what a cash cow was and decided to delay tactics and run up the bill.

A few trips to the Appeals Court amounted to a win for the complainant who was harmed.

With that victory in hand, the dissidents, being naïve, thought that the ship would be righted and clear sailing towards the horizon would soon commence.

Not so fast.

Before that could happen, many more excursions through the murky waters of the appeals process would be involved and years would go by, all the while lawyers patting each other on the back, then, finally, with no hope in sight, Utopia sinking past the horizon, a mighty warrior arrived with a first class ticket to the Supreme Court in hand.

All the while this scenario was unfolding, the assistant became the new CEO.

The Supreme Court, having had enough of both sides, deemed the company at fault, issued a cease and desist order, then demanded everything to be returned to “factory specs.”

The CEO, knowing she had overstepped her boundaries, offered no apologies, reluctantly commenced, although at a slow, snail like pace, to the road to recovery.

The CEO knew that the stockholders were planning an exorcism at the annual general meeting a few short months away, became distressed when a juicy bit of news hit the media.

The news was that the cost of the CEO’s indiscretion amounted to $2.5 million.

So, with that news in hand, the CEO determined the stockholders should eat cake and would also be on the hook.

Well then, you, being a stockholder, should be amazed to learn that this CEO is actually the Premier of our province.

Should you also be condemned for wondering why the Liberals haven’t picked up the tab, seeing as how the party gives payola to said Premier for giving us the shaft for their petty, cabal schemes against the teachers and students of our province.

Try to imagine how that money could have been used to help the homeless and downtrodden, which she had a big part in creating in the first place.

Thanks.

Bob Johnston

Vernon, B.C.