It looks like we will finally be rid of Stockwell Day, as he quits politics:
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/qui ... story.html
He was known as Mr. Slash and Burn here in Alberta as he outsourced and/or reduced services, and tons of line staff, in department after department under Ralph Klein.
But the turning point for his credibility, in my mind at least, was when he said, around 1996, that Y2K was Microsoft's and IBM's fault. And that they should pay for it.
His plans to sue the two companies on behalf of the Alberta government, for the government's Y2K software conversion costs, quickly disappeared from view. As someone who actually understood the situation informed him that all the government's computer programmers he had laid off a year or two earlier had created the problem by writing computer programs that stored the year as two digits instead of four. And they, if they were still around, could have solved the problem at a lot less cost than hiring outsiders who had never seen the code before.
He will always be "Mr. Jet Ski Dude" to me.