Rob Shaw: B.C. Liberal flip-flop on MLA expenses shows party's struggles

VICTORIA — The B.C. Liberal party continues to struggle to get its bearings as the province’s official Opposition, as evidenced recently by an embarrassingly clumsy attempt to go after the lunch per diems of NDP cabinet ministers.
The Liberals introduced a private member’s bill last week that proposed to ban MLAs who live in Greater Victoria from claiming a $61 food per diem that’s currently available to all the other MLAs.
The argument, according to the Liberals, is that