Advisor of B.C. Premier’s Resigns Due to Her Role in Ethnic Outreach Plan

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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The deputy chief of staff of Premier Christy Clark, Kim Haakstad, has decided to resign from her position in the ethnic outreach plan, since it recently mixed up the B.C. Liberal government in a new scandal. The resignation of Kim Haakstad has come soon after numerous prominent government MLAs openly challenged the decision of Premier to take action against politicization of the civil service, which was indicated in the strategy document submitted by Ms. Haakstad to senior government and party operatives.

The Premier mentioned in an official statement that Ms. Haakstad has quit, without severance, “after much consideration of her roles and responsibilities.” There has been growing pressure on the Premier’s staff to be held answerable due to a harsh caucus meeting on Thursday in Ottawa. Later an official apology was passed from the Premier’s office regarding the leaked documents, associating key officials of her office with a plan of using government resources to build her party’s outreach to ethnic communities.

The scandal has progressed into an internal debate regarding the situation of the Liberal coalition which Ms. Clark had been leading for two years. Sever sources have revealed that a considerate number of senior B.C. Liberal activists have agreed to convene this weekend to attend a meeting for discussing whether Ms. Clark has the authority of leading her party into the election on May 14. There is also a raw speculation about Ms. Haakstad’s resignation, who was a long-time confidant of the Premier, would disrupt those plans.

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