Rafe Mair
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Rafe Mair is a former lawyer, cabinet minister and scratch golfer who went into honest work and became a broadcaster and writer on public affairs.

During his public career Mair was the British Columbia minister responsible for constitutional affairs leading up to the patriation of the Canadian Constitution, and through 1980 attended all the critical meetings either as Premier Bennett’s representative or adviser. Rafe Mair hardly confines his efforts to politics. In his editorials he often talks about sports, his slow, unsteady return to his Anglican roots, fly-fishing and travel. Basically, though, Mair is a political junkie and, because he’s been there, a highly skeptical one who combines gut reaction with pungent reaction punctuated with what has been called his “wicked sense of humour.”

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B.C. Premier Must Have Known About 'Ethnicgate,' Must Resign

(6) Comments | Posted March 10, 2013 | 4:25 PM

Dear Premier Clark,

You knew about "Ethnicgate" from the beginning. You had to.

I was there, Ms. Clark, and know how government works -- especially when the civil service is involved in politics. With a program this size -- in the hands of your senior adviser; with the...

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Christy Clark's Pipeline Bleating Is Egregious, Disingenuous Nonsense

(2) Comments | Posted October 3, 2012 | 7:46 PM

I'm beginning to feel sorry for Premier Christy Clark. She is a very nice person, personable and able to speak. What she is not capable of doing is speaking sensibly or making decisions that make sense.

It seems obvious to me that she is getting wretched advice and nowhere is...

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I Think The B.C. Liberals Are Tostada

(2) Comments | Posted August 30, 2012 | 3:01 PM

The resignation of Kevin Falcon as finance minister, along with George Abbott, Mary McNeil, John Les and other MLAs who have declared they won't seek re-election cannot be seen -- as Premier Christy Clark would have it -- simply an opportunity for her to promote able backbenchers. Falcon...

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What Hasn't Changed Since I Was B.C. Health Minister

(1) Comments | Posted August 23, 2012 | 8:47 AM

Back in ancient times I was health minister in B.C. Much has changed. No one had heard of AIDS in 1979-80. Organ transplants were rare. MRIs were just gleams in inventors' eyes.

One thing has however remained the same -- the debate over private medicine. In those days doctors were...

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