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PostPosted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 6:28 pm
 


Title: Gordon Campbell set to be high commissioner to Britain
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Posted By: Hyack
Date: 2011-06-23 15:46:56
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 6:28 pm
 


So you send a High Commisioner to the UK and all we get is an Ambassador?


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PostPosted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 6:54 pm
 


You got it wrong. We sent BC's answer to the question "Are politicians liars" to the UK and all you got was a dedicated lifetime foreign service officer?

Although, I wonder why the Conservatives decided to send Gordo to the UK when it would have been a much more logical choice to make him High Commissionaire to the Comonwealth of Hawaii?

Speaking of High Commissionaire, comming from BC, maybe Harper thought Gordo was the perfect choice.


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PostPosted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 6:57 pm
 


DanSC DanSC:
So you send a High Commisioner to the UK and all we get is an Ambassador?

Your Choice.


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PostPosted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 7:30 pm
 


Wow, nice reward for screwing BC.


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PostPosted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 7:36 pm
 


They had to give him something for instituting the HST after he'd convinced all his constituents he wasn't even thinking about it.

I wonder what Christie Cluck is gonna get if she manages to keep it?


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PostPosted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 10:05 pm
 


RUEZ RUEZ:
Wow, nice reward for screwing BC.



And setting the stage for the rest of the country.

Not bad at all, out of the limelight, and a good life with lots of
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So much for Karma.


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PostPosted: Thu Jun 23, 2011 11:59 pm
 


Freakinoldguy Freakinoldguy:
You got it wrong. We sent BC's answer to the question "Are politicians liars" to the UK and all you got was a dedicated lifetime foreign service officer?

Although, I wonder why the Conservatives decided to send Gordo to the UK when it would have been a much more logical choice to make him High Commissionaire to the Comonwealth of Hawaii?

Speaking of High Commissionaire, comming from BC, maybe Harper thought Gordo was the perfect choice.


I thought they got a pinko commie Dipper ex-Premier.


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PostPosted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 7:52 am
 


DanSC DanSC:
So you send a High Commisioner to the UK and all we get is an Ambassador?


It's a Commonwealth term Dan. You lot kicked the Brits out after that little rebellion thing. You seemed to have done pretty well out of it without having a High Commissioner.


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PostPosted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 9:54 am
 


DanSC DanSC:
So you send a High Commisioner to the UK and all we get is an Ambassador?


High Commissioners are for fellow Commonwealth nations; Ambassadors are for non-Commonwealth nations.


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PostPosted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 12:36 pm
 


andyt andyt:
Freakinoldguy Freakinoldguy:
You got it wrong. We sent BC's answer to the question "Are politicians liars" to the UK and all you got was a dedicated lifetime foreign service officer?

Although, I wonder why the Conservatives decided to send Gordo to the UK when it would have been a much more logical choice to make him High Commissionaire to the Comonwealth of Hawaii?

Speaking of High Commissionaire, comming from BC, maybe Harper thought Gordo was the perfect choice.


I thought they got a pinko commie Dipper ex-Premier.



Damn you're right. 8O

The dedicated foreign service officer must be the guy they passed over for the job. :D


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PostPosted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 12:50 pm
 


Freakinoldguy Freakinoldguy:
andyt andyt:
Freakinoldguy Freakinoldguy:
You got it wrong. We sent BC's answer to the question "Are politicians liars" to the UK and all you got was a dedicated lifetime foreign service officer?

Although, I wonder why the Conservatives decided to send Gordo to the UK when it would have been a much more logical choice to make him High Commissionaire to the Comonwealth of Hawaii?

Speaking of High Commissionaire, comming from BC, maybe Harper thought Gordo was the perfect choice.


I thought they got a pinko commie Dipper ex-Premier.



Damn you're right. 8O

The dedicated foreign service officer must be the guy they passed over for the job. :D


I had checked to be sure I was right. Here's a list of the latest few from Wiki. Only Michael Kergin is a foreign service officer:

Allan Gotlieb - 1981–1989
Derek Burney - 1989–1993
John de Chastelain - 1993–1994
Raymond Chrétien - 1994–2000
Michael Kergin - 2000–2005
Frank McKenna - 2005-2006
Michael Wilson - 2006-2009
Gary Doer - 2009-present

Ambassadorships seem to be political appointments. As they are with the guys they send us.


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PostPosted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 3:53 pm
 


Kind of sad when you think about it. Here's some smuck who, because he's in tight with someone in the Government gets a plumb job where as someone who dedicated their whole life to this kind of work gets boned. 8O

The ambassador who likely knows less about the country he's ambassador to than I do about brain surgery gets all the perks while the foreign service officer gets all the work.

Life just ain't fair. :lol:


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PostPosted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 4:22 pm
 


One thought: As the Commissioner is technically the High Commissioner to St. James' Court, aka the Queen, isn't the post, at least in theory, somewhat redundant with the GG?


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