The Good Consul

Congratulations once again to Mary Ellen Turpel-Lafond, BC's representative for children and youth.

She has issued yet another honest and courageous condemnation of the Ministry of Children and Family Development.

This time she focuses on the inevitability of kids "in care" graduating not to high school or college, but to crime and prison.

She has proven repeatedly to be a dedicated and rare civil servant.

It is astonishing that in his recent little shuffle of the cabinet deck, Mr. Campbell left the worst of the worst in place - namely, Minister Tom Christensen.

This is the clearest indicator that Campbell hasn't the first clue about these issues, or the first care.