Rob Shaw: Speaker dives into murky world of severances

VICTORIA — Speaker Darryl Plecas is diving into the murky world of political staff severances as part of his wide-ranging probe into spending at the legislature.
Plecas intends to crack open taxpayer-paid severance deals for political staff that were paid out of caucus budgets in the legislature. It’s a move that mainly targets his former colleagues and current enemies in the B.C. Liberal party, which paid out staff as it transitioned from government to opposition in 2017, and then a