“In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence,” said Laurence Peter, author of The Peter Principle.
Adrian Dix has worked in government for decades, paid by your tax dollars. He has been B.C.’s Minister of Health since 2017. He’s been an MLA since 2005, and before that worked for Ian Waddell in Ottawa. He served as chief of staff to Premier Glen Clark from 1996 to 1999, a position from which he was dismissed for back-dating a memo to protect Clark from conflict-of-interest charges.
The entire health system in B.C. is a shambles, and more ER doctors are speaking out. I still don’t have a GP. Six years with Dix as the boss and things are collapsing. In an interview with CBC News recently, a physician was quoted as saying, “oftentimes before we even get into the emergency department, we see a lineup of ambulances waiting to offload patients. On our way to our office, we see hallways lined with stretchers—patients who have clearly been there for hours waiting to be seen. Sometimes we hear people crying out in pain and discomfort, and that’s before we’ve even started our shift.”
Here’s the irony: Dix served as the opposition critic for health before the NDP came to power. Here’s a quote from 2009: “We have to fight this now,” Dix said. “When you’re talking about this level of cuts of operating rooms, you’re not just damaging and creating longer wait times now and leaving people to suffer more—the layoffs will take away their capacity to address surgeries well into the future.”
Time for Premier David Eby to step up and replace him.
