Speaker offers to rescind gag orders on fired B.C. legislature staff

VICTORIA — Employees fired in recent years from the legislature for trying to blow the whistle on a spending scandal may soon have their gag orders lifted by Speaker Darryl Plecas.
But that clemency won’t extend to political staffers who might have noticed wrongdoing inside their parties or by their MLAs, because of limitations to the Speaker’s power.
House Speaker Darryl Plecas, right, arrives with chief of staff Alan Mullen for the Legislative Assembly Management Committee me