'The Canadian promise has been broken for all younger people,' says B.C.’s Don Wright

The former head of B.C.’s civil service under NDP Premier John Horgan is one of many people who have stepped down from a high-powered job and taken advantage of the freedom to tell us how the world really works.

Highly informed retired, or semi-retired, professionals like Don Wright are a godsend to the public, to journalists and to any government officials willing to listen to their sometimes hard but necessary truths.

No longer reined in by employers, confidentiality agreements or fear of having their careers cancelled, such people can cut loose, responsibly, and say what they really think about the fields in which they have hard-won expertise.

For instance, most of the 27 respected B.C. signatories of last month’s punchy public letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney and others abou