Rob Shaw: NDP tiptoes around safety recommendations in wake of Lapu-Lapu festival tragedy (The Orca)

There are secret words to watch out for from politicians that can help you decode their true message. One of them is “intent.”

Governments profess support for the “intent” of recommendations when they don’t really like what’s been suggested, but for whatever reason can’t say that out loud. Instead, politicians will deploy the word “intent” in clever ways to make it appear they’re about to do something specific, when in reality they intend to go off in a different direction.

That phrasing played out repeatedly in the BC government’s recent response to the commission of inquiry into public safety, struck after an attacker in a vehicle killed 11 people at the Lapu-Lapu Day festival ...

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