MLAs failed to keep tabs on an isolated legislature Speaker

VICTORIA — After a long day at work at the legislature, Speaker Darryl Plecas and his special adviser, Alan Mullen, like to relax at the bar near the capital building.
Belleville’s Watering Hole & Diner is a favourite haunt for MLAs, political staff and journalists. But among the crowd, you’re more likely to spot Plecas and Mullen sitting alone. They are two men without political friends — ostracized by the B.C. Liberals, largely ignored by the NDP and Greens, and now