Re: “Premier expects defeat,” May 31.

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Over time, we’ve grown accustomed to the leader of the Green Party of B.C. speaking ex cathedra about any and all aspects of climate change and refusing to talk to anyone who has the temerity to question his pronouncements.

Since the recent election, however, Andrew Weaver has been pontificating about a great many additional subjects, including the economy, the division of powers between the federal and provincial governments, voting procedures, the rights of indigenous people, etc., etc.

This was never more apparent than during the joint press briefing on Tuesday, when it almost seemed as if he were a sovereign monarch graciously acceding to the overtures of the supplicant NDP, rather than the head of a fringe party trying to gain some advantage because of the election results. And it has to be admitted that the leader of the NDP did nothing to dispel this impression.

Weaver was also singularly ungracious about the soon-to-be ex-premier. All in all, it has been an alarming display of enormous hubris.

There is also more than a whiff of hypocrisy in the fact that Weaver and his acolytes intend to speak eloquently against certain upcoming budget measures and shortly thereafter vote in favour of them. By his extreme behaviour, Weaver is making a compelling case against proportional representation.

John Sutherland

Victoria