Editorial: How to bungle a termination

“I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue,” said Cato the Elder. Had Premier John Horgan and Jobs Minister Bruce Ralston heeded the Roman senator’s sage advice the government appointee they sacked last week would have packed up his paperweights and moved on.
It is, after all, the prerogative of any incoming government to replace key players in the public service with candidates of its own choosing. Horgan and his minister had every right to fire Gordon Wilson, who was