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VICTORIA — Speaker Darryl Plecas famously said two things about the concerns that led to last fall’s ouster of the clerk of the legislature and the sergeant-at-arms.

“The public deserves full disclosure,” he declared after calls for him to tell why he went to the police, “and boy are they going to get it.”

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Monday Plecas delivered in full with a 76 page report that positively seethed with allegations about spending abuses of one kind or another, backed up with 31 separate and well-documented exhibits.

Mr. Speaker had also predicted in advance that his concerns, when publicly disclosed, would induce people to “throw up.”

And when NDP house leader Mike Farnworth responded to the Plecas report on Monday, one of the first things he said was “it made me sick.”

As for the B.C. Liberals, when I asked house leader Mary Polak point blank if she thought Plecas had done the right thing, she quibbled briefly about the timing and details of how he proceeded. But she did not dispute that he had, on balance, done the right thing in pulling all this together — documenting his concerns, delivering the material to the police, airing it in a public report.