This is Rich

"No process, no consultation, no process."

This is how BC's Auditor-General, John Doyle, has described the Campbell government's way of handling land deals.

Of course, the government's response is the old "shoot the messenger" gag. Forest Minister Pat Bell starts calling the AG names. Sweet.

What makes this latest case so tasty is that Rich Coleman was the Minister when this questionable done-deal was rammed through in favor of Western Forest Products. Coleman's brother, Stan, is a senior exec at the company.

So my old question, asked always in these situations - Whose cousin is he? - must be updated to - Whose immediate sibling is he?

Driving into Seoul from Inchon airport a few years ago, along many kilometres of perfect highway, I asked, "Whose cousin had the cement contract?

The next morning I read in the English language newspaper about the scandal of the cement contract going to some government official's near relative.

Hahahahahaha...

One thing about government corruption is that it is always so laughably predictable.