Our new NDP provincial premier David Eby has announced his transition team, which is a strange way of putting it because its members will be sticking around long after Eby settles into his new chair -- or until he sees fit to replace one or more of them, or they leave on their own accord.
Eby is the first lawyer to hold the premiership since the short-lived reign of NDP Ujjal Dosanjh (2000-2001), who was nominated at a party leadership convention after he replaced the short-lived reign of NDP Dan Miller (1999-2000), who was selected by party caucus members after NDP Glen Clark's sudden resignation in the face of accusations that he rubber stamped a casino application in exchange for a deck on his house.
Of this four person team, the person I am most curious about is Shannon Salter, a former litigator and deputy attorney general whose new duties include deputy minister and head of the public service. Expect some buyouts and amalgamations, some dyeing of the red tape pink as this newer and younger NDP leadership group seeks to bring our provincial bureaucracy up to speed with a world that has given up the consistency of jogging for the whip-snap of wind sprints.
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