No need indeed
to heed Kash Heed
His clueless comments about fellow failure Garry Begg
beg questions about Kash’s credibility
July 21, 2025
B.C.’s born-yesterday journalists can't evaluate
Kash Heed’s misinformed, misguided thinking.
In the world of ultra-ambitious, stature-seeking characters, career setbacks aren’t just disappointing. They’re humiliating. That’s been a repeat experience for Kash Heed, who left Vancouver police after being passed over for the chief’s job, left West Vancouver police amidst internal discord, allegations of Police Act misconduct and a lawsuit, then became an on-and-off solicitor general before leaving provincial politics under scandal. He now subsists at the level of Richmond municipal councillor while trying to regain stature through his expert-on-all-things-policing media profile.
He’s blown that one too.
It’s clear to knowledgeable people, but that category rules out B.C. journalists. Especially on policing issues media don’t care much about accuracy, let alone insight. If they’ll accept the Pivot Legal Society’s childishly vapid Meenakshi Mannoe, and corrupt ex-cop, corrupt ex-deputy police complaint commissioner and flagrant liar Rollie Woods as official news sources, they’ll likely overlook Heed’s unintentionally hilarious comments about Garry Begg.
It took eight months for Begg to get himself fired as solicitor general, but his lack of suitability for the position was obvious all along to just about everyone but journalists and Heed. Or, to put it from a cynical but accurate perspective that eludes journalists and Heed, Begg was eminently suited for the job. He was a simple little yes-man ex-cop and cop stooge. He got fired only for screwing up his talking points.
Heed’s estimation differed somewhat.
Begg “understands policing here in the province. He understands the complexities involved in reforming policing in British Columbia,” Vancouver Postmedia reporter Gordon Hoekstra quoted Heed eight months ago. “He understands the roadblocks. He understands the political environment, and he certainly understands the operational environment involving the RCMP wanting to flex their political standing as a federal police agency.”
That was Heed referring to the possibility of B.C. replacing the RCMP, heedless of the union impetus behind the proposal. And of course Mr. Policing Expert was talking about an MLA who’s stupid even by B.C. legislature standards.
Stupidity just pours through Hoekstra’s thoroughly botched-up story.
Hoekstra also grants credibility to Adam Olsen, a former MLA and stalwart of all-party legislative committees that rejected calls for transparency and accountability at B.C.’s Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner, and for independent civilian investigation of police sexual misconduct including rape. Not just born-yesterday Hoekstra, but Olsen seems blissfully unaware of the vague, nebulous nature of the last committee’s recommendations, which Olsen and the other committee members almost certainly did not make, write or even read.
Even so, Olsen will continue as an official media source, as will Mannoe, Woods and Heed. Maybe journalists will add Begg to their list.
Meanwhile the cop status quo benefits as all of the above get everything wrong.
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