Editor: This is my version of recent events in B.C. Premier Christy Clark was so concerned about her fate in the upcoming 2013 election she asked her magic mirror: 鈥淲ho is the fairest contestant of them all?鈥� The mirror replied, 鈥淎drian Dix.鈥� That鈥檚 when Clark and her Liberal backers panicked.

Clark phoned Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who everyone knows invested $1.6 billion in that B.C. HST scam that didn鈥檛 pan out. Currently Harper has some very influential friends who are lusting to have a pipeline built through Beautiful B.C.

No one is saying if pressure was applied, but Clark hired Ken Boessenkool as her chief of staff. He happens to have worked as a senior policy adviser and strategist for Harper. He was also a lobbyist for several prominent companies, including Calgary-based Enbridge, the company salivating to build the Northern Gateway pipeline project.

The BC Liberals can now fire up their election apparatus, knowing Clark鈥檚 right-hand man has lots of friends in the oil patch, who have the marketing knowhow and financial resources to keep political machinery well lubricated. If Harper wasn鈥檛 handcuffed by the rules and regulations of our democracy, Enbridge would be laying pipe right now.

Lloyd Atkins,

Vernon