Ian Mulgrew: Krog slams former colleagues on legal aid

The man who should have been attorney-general, former NDP justice expert-turned-mayor of Nanaimo Leonard Krog shakes his head in dismay.

The continuing legal-aid crisis that has spurred lawyers to threaten a strike beginning April 1 should have been quickly addressed by the NDP administration, Krog insisted. Instead of fixing that, Krog disappointingly pointed out his party had given a small increase to the Legal Services Society — none for a fee hike — but continued to hurt the province’s most vulnerable.

First elected for the NDP in 1991 for Parksville-Qualicum, Krog was defeated in the 1996 campaign. He ran for the party leadership in 2003 — losing to now-finance minister Carole James — before returning to the legislature in 2005 representing Nanaimo.

“Look, there was a poster kicking around in the ’60s that said something like, ‘The end of all our journeys will be to return to the place we began and know it for the first time,’” he said.

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