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Originally Posted by Slava
To me this is exactly where it's a witch hunt as opposed to actual public policy. Between the law society dues and flight to South Africa (which was not only questionable, but paid back), we're looking at $49,000. Have a quick look through Klein's track record, or Stelmach. These guys were flying their wives all over the place and no one seemed to have a worry at all. I'm job making a two wrongs make a right argument here though. It just seems that for some reason people are holding Redford to a different standard. I'm not sure why that is really.
If you listen to people (like my wife) she thinks it's gender. When Peter McKay has a helicopter pick him up to go to a lobster boil I think it gets laughed off as a "boys will be boys" sort of thing. Like, yeah, that's a pretty ignorant thing to do, but kind of so ridiculous it's amusing. Redford uses government aircraft to attend a world leaders funeral that she once worked for and people are up in arms. To be honest I never really considered the gender angle because I think it's just wrong, but maybe there is something to it. For the most part these 'transgressions' seem so minor, and maybe we really are far more willing to cut slack to male leaders?
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I will give you credit. You are probably one of the few people left in this province who still blames sexism on precipitating her downfall, and still beats the drum.
Although I believe everything you wrote is true, in part, it is not why she fell. She fell because she sucked as a leader who tried to enact change. By all accounts she was a cow, to everyone. She ran her office like a queen, and that ticked many people off.
By writing her demise off as caused by sexism is not looking deep enough. The woman did just about everything wrong as someone who wants to influence the people who she needs to make change. She spoke down, and not at people. Frock even her goodbye letter sounded like a big F U I am better than you.
At any rate, this was a decent article I found last night, written by a woman, on how Redford just didn't get it.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2014/08...-the-province/
So bottom line, maybe she had a bit less track to be a bad leader as a woman, but in the end she went about her good policies in totally the wrong way and got turfed. Time to move on and see how Smith does in the role in a few years.