Let me pretend to withhold judgment—to play the polite columnist—while every nerve in me is screaming.

And, if I may be frank at the outset, let me concede it’s tough to bite one’s lip, to try to see the other side, and to keep the fingers from carving them a new one on the keyboard that this moment faces me. So scandalous, so betraying, so lacking in basic respect is this situation of my money—mine, among the hundreds of thousands of Metro Vancouver taxpayers—that I can barely contain the bile.

The news this week that the BC NDP government has decided not—repeat not—to prompt a public inquiry to help us understand, at least for many years to come, if ever, how the budget of the North Shore Wastewater Treatment plant project metastasized is, well, a test of one’s better self.

That it reeks of self-preservation, that it skewers........

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