Rob Shaw: NDP and Liberals use the beleaguered Speaker for a proxy war

VICTORIA — When Abbotsford South MLA Darryl Plecas defected from the B.C. Liberal party last year to become legislature Speaker, he told his local newspaper he’d work hard to overcome the damage done to his credibility.
“When I say, gee this is a good job for me, it’s because it’s a direct hit on impartiality, it’s a direct hit on being non-partisan,” he told the Abbotsford News’s Tyler Olsen in Sept. 13, 2017 story.
“I can make a contri