If embattled Agriculture Minister Pat Pimm really thought it was a great idea to put a race track, restaurant, rodeo arena and campground on quality farmland, he could have pleaded his case to his cabinet colleagues. That’s because the province’s Agricultural Land Reserve has an override loophole, allowing cabinet to approve commercial development of protected farmland if it’s in “the provincial interest.” ... Pimm is refusing to resign and Clark is refusing to fire him. But this is the same Christy Clark who flayed the NDP government of the 1990s for interfering in ALC decisions. “It is wrong to pressure a quasi-judicial body,” Clark said in 1998, after the NDP over-ruled the ALC for a proposed golf resort on protected farmland near Kamloops. http://www.theprovince.com/news/Smyth+Farmland+flap+shows+prefers+industry/9162719/story.html