Shock Government?

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We've understood the concept of disaster capitalism, and the shock doctrine used by the World Bank and the free marketeers to make national governments buckle under to a radical capitalist agenda, but now Sean Holman of Public Eye ("I'm not wearing a tin hat!") has unvealed the shock government requirements for senior government bureaucrats under the BC liberals.

Basically, the executives have to be able to manufacture crisis, to create the opportuniies to get public (and presumably employee) consent to actions they do not agree with. Such as....chopping social services, inflicting misery on the weak in our society, and selling public assets, from BC Rail to the forests and rivers.

You can read the job description here.

Reminds me of the comment in Barry Broadfoot's Ten Lost Years history of the 1930s in Canada  - along the lines of "If you know a man who was a banker during the depression, he is not a nice man."