text: The McLean's article is an opinion piece, though the author is presented as an academic. Nothing much to do with corruption, actually. more with some social humbuggery and grasping for money .... suspicion of others all round ... . in his academic analysis he ties this into the highway fiasco in a major storm.  Go figure.  It was bound to cause a commotion, and it did. After 3 firings of provincial officials, the fiasco claims another victim in an unexpected quarter. He is now free to write about Scots being cheap, the Maritime Provinces' loser mentality, anglo-saxon historical perfidy, non-christian religions of his choosing's ... better not go there