{"id":20940,"date":"2020-11-15T01:31:18","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T06:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=20940"},"modified":"2020-12-09T11:28:32","modified_gmt":"2020-12-09T16:28:32","slug":"reflections-from-the-outgoing-speaker-of-the-bc-legislature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/reflections-from-the-outgoing-speaker-of-the-bc-legislature\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections from the outgoing Speaker of the BC Legislature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After three years in the Speaker\u2019s chair, Darryl Plecas is leaving the BC legislature. The former MLA for Abbotsford-South decided not to run for re-election when Premier Horgan called the snap election this fall.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Plecas came to his position as Speaker at a pivotal moment in BC politics. Victorious in his Liberal campaign as an incumbent during the May 2017 provincial election, Plecas sacrificed his tie-forcing vote in the legislature by standing in for the bipartisan role. The move impeded then-premier Christy Clark from appealing to the Lieutenant Governor for approval to form a government over the NDP-Green coalition.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In an interview with CIVL, the outgoing Speaker discusses BC\u2019s COVID-19 response, investigations of the BC legislature and why he chose not to run again as MLA for Abbotsford South.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Former Speaker of the BC Legislature Darryl Plecas:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After three years in the Speaker\u2019s chair, Darryl Plecas is leaving the BC legislature. The former MLA for Abbotsford-South decided not to run for re-election when Premier Horgan called the snap election this fall.\u00a0 Plecas came to his position as Speaker at a pivotal moment in BC politics. Victorious in his Liberal campaign as an&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":53,"featured_media":20944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[217,57,218,225],"tags":[3143,3144,3145],"radio":[1377],"origine":[1372,280,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20940"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/53"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20940"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20940\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20940"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=20940"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=20940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}