B.C.'s new premier expected to axe and combine ministries, Vaughn Palmer writes
Talk in Victoria points to some ministries being eliminated and others downsized as British Columbia's handover to a new government nears.
Reported by Vancouver Sun (Vaughn Palmer column); confirmation from the incoming B.C. government pending.
Illustrative photoBritish Columbia's government is about to get smaller at the top, if the talk in Victoria is right.
Columnist Vaughn Palmer wrote in the Vancouver Sun that people should expect the province's new premier to axe and combine several ministries. The handover to a new B.C. government was about a week away when the piece ran.
According to Palmer, the speculation in the capital centres on eliminating some ministries and downsizing others. It is a forecast from an opinion column, not an announcement from the incoming government.
Ministries are the departments through which the province is organized, so a shorter list would change which offices people in Metro Vancouver deal with and who is responsible for them.
Palmer's column frames the consolidation as what to expect once the new government takes over.
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