To err is human, to baselessly accuse political rivals of crimes against democracy is pure Christy Clark.
The B.C. Liberal Party – which was once so handy with the delete key – left the email addresses and postal codes of 100 survey respondents online where anyone could see them.
It seemed like a sloppy but forgivable misstep. Then our premier took aim at the NDP.
Clark reminded us that hacking is against the law, employed the phrase “malicious intent,” and even said: “we saw them try to hack into our website.”
Except they didn’t.
What made the charges most galling is that the closest thing to a hack we’ve seen lately is the Liberals leaking NDP internal documents.
The B.C. Liberals branded themselves as the party of optimism, but Clark seems to have applied that positive attitude to what she thinks people will believe.
We truly hope this election won’t be dominated by discussions of cyber security and calls for the jailing of political rivals. That doesn’t always work out so well.
However, there is one point on which we agree with our now-apologetic premier: this entire affair is a distraction (for the moment, we’ll overlook that it was Clark doing the distracting).
Discussing climate change would be much more fruitful than discussing the leaking of the NDP’s climate plan, and learning about Alex Gervais might be more helpful than talking about what bumped his death from the headlines.
There are many bouts of mudslinging that leave both parties filthy.
This is that rare instance where a plague has been confined to just one house.
– Guest editorial from the North Shore News
