# Browser-visible Instagram capture — Steve Kooner B.C. Government Directory Reel

Original URL: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DcNPU1zSWqH/?igsi=MTA0NDZkaWppYmNzcA==
Captured: 2026-08-19

Visible account: `steve.kooner.mla` / Steve Kooner.

Visible caption:

> The NDP just shut down the B.C. Government Directory, a basic public resource that has existed since the 1930s.
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> For decades, British Columbians could see the size of the bureaucracy and how their government was structured. That transparency is now gone. At the exact moment the NDP is running record deficits and ballooning the public payroll, they have decided to hide the details from the people who pay the bills.
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> Their cybersecurity and privacy excuse is weak. Other governments protect personal information without blacking out the entire structure of the public service. This is not about security. It is about reducing scrutiny.
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> A government that spends this recklessly and piles on debt this quickly has no right to operate in greater secrecy. The NDP is deliberately closing the public’s window into government when accountability is needed most. This is an attack on basic transparency, and it is unacceptable.

Visible engagement at capture: about 558 likes and 122 comments; post age shown as 14 hours.

Browser video duration: about 156.37 seconds.

Thumbnail/visual note: the Reel shows a Global News article/video still with headline “B.C. government ends public access to directory in place since 1930s,” by Amy Judd and Jordan Armstrong, and a lower-third reading “BC NDP cuts public access to gov. directory.”

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