The NDP says Advanced Education Minister Naomi Yamamoto should follow the lead of her colleague Harry Bloy.
Bloy stepped down from cabinet today after leaking an e-mail from the Province newspaper sent to Yamamoto’s office to a company the newspaper was investigating.
Critic Michelle Mungall says Yamamoto should do the honourable thing and resign.
Mungall said “it shows that she’s not able to control her ministry she’s not able to control the staff in her ministry and this comes on top of a year of ignoring students’ top of mind concerns and where all 25 of public post-secondary presidents have said that they lack confidence in this minister.”
Mungall notes the company in question, the Eminata group, is a donor to the BC Liberal party.
But Yamamoto says her office did nothing wrong in sharing an e-mail with a cabinet colleague, but she adds she’s disappointed in Bloy’s actions.
She said “No I’m disappointed I feel like I’ve been let down by a colleague but I didn’t do anything wrong my staff didn’t do anything wrong, but unfortunately Harry Bloy made a mistake, but he’s owned up to it.”
Bloy has resigned as Minister of State for Multiculturalism, and will not run in the next provincial election.
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