Premier Christy Clark feels it香蕉视频直播檚 entirely appropriate for the head of B.C. Hydro to join her election team and travel the province with her, advising her during the upcoming election campaign香蕉视频直播攁nd to do so without taking a leave of absence from his job.
Earlier this month, Brad Bennett said Clark personally asked him to reprise his role from the campaign four years ago when he rode the Liberals campaign bus with Clark each day in the last few weeks leading up to the vote, helping her drum up the support that lead to her party香蕉视频直播檚 seemingly improbable come-back victory.
At the time, Bennett was not the chairman of B.C. Hydro. A year after the Liberals won the 2013 election, Clark appointed him to head of the huge Crown corporation.
Asked if she felt it was appropriate for Bennett to work for her campaign again, this time given his current position香蕉视频直播攁nd not to take a leave of absence to do so香蕉视频直播擟lark said as a volunteer, Bennett can do as he pleases.
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Bennett is the son of former B.C. premier Bill Bennett and the grandson of another former B.C. premier, WAC Bennett. Clark is running for re-election in a area that used to make up part of both former premiers香蕉视频直播� ridings.
When Brad Bennett told reporters he plans to join Clark香蕉视频直播檚 campaign for the upcoming election, he shrugged off the notion there would be any conflict by working directly to help his boss get re-elected, or that the people whom he said he actually works for香蕉视频直播攖he ratepayers of BC Hydro香蕉视频直播攚ould, in essence, be paying him to campaign for Clark because he will not taking leave from his role as BC Hydro chairman to do so.
But Clark香蕉视频直播檚 NDP opponent in the soon-to-be-renamed Kelowna West riding disagreed.
Shelly Cook said it appears to her to be a conflict of interest.
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