The ex-CEO of the Vancouver SPCA was making $204,000 plus a lot of perks when he was exposed and the SPCA had to fire him in 2001. Brimacombe at the time piously avowed that this would never happen again and that the SPCA would be open, accountable and transparent in future.

The BC SPCA, it's board of directors and its executive appear not to know the meaning of any of those words, but they sure sound pretty.