The Legislature Raids

Wow!
 

Take a sec to consider the scale of the cost for the examination of documents; a whole legion of legal secretaries (and temp stenos), probably rented office space and so on....just for one set of documents.

Maybe it's because there were more than two RCMP examining them, as with the paperwork originally seized from the Ledge, that there's such a high rate of return on relevant documents.....

How many stones remain unturned in this case? Somewhere, there's a motherlode hidden in the gravel.....washed or otherwise....
 

It would certainly be interesting to know how much the government funded defence is costing all of us. Any guesses ???
 

Anon 9:26

I think that the cost of all of this must be considered: defense, prosecution and RCMP investigation. It would have been a good deal cheaper if we had the advertized "most open and accountable government." Whatever it costs, it is worth it if the truth is exposed: it will yield the benefit of deterring future fraudsters, and it might cause the citizens to sit up and take their province back.
 

I find it very troubling that he found (so far) 6,600 documents, some of which were "highly relevant" to this case and the Campbell covernment has been using a cavalier attitude towards their destruction. If this recent revelation isn't evidence of a Government cover-up I don't know what is?
And I further ask as others have before me: Is Campbell absolutely devoid of any scruples?
 

A fellow worker, one who is not so enthused with anything that is outside the running of his business or his son's hockey team, remarked: "Why would anyone (in reference to Basi and Virk) risk the possibility of having an accrued pension of close to a million dollars after working for the BC Liberals... with the possibility of moving further of the chain of command to perhaps being a Jessica MacDonald kind of Deputy Minister with other perks being offered... like settling the Ambulance strike..... accept a bribe of a measly $25,000.

Maybe what we are looking at here is just the tip of the iceberg. Sooke/ALR development and the BC Rail sale to CN Rail.

What "security bubble" did the defendants see themselves inside when they started to .... alleged.... go down the path of breach of trust, not on just one charge, but multiple when it comes to Dave Basi?

If the Basi Boys had managed to transfer their organizing skills to the Federal level, what kind of back room dealing of a government at that level would we now be shackled with.... yes I know we now have a Conservative government and it was the Liberals that were in power then..... but why, oh why, would someone with a handsome pay give it all up just to earn monies illegally?

Which a sort of an answer comes from recent Press announcements that something happened seven months ago.. during an election... that wasn't reported by the either the government, RCMP or the Deputy-Ministers-in-charge-during-an-election, the theft of 1400 files which was handled by the temp Solicitor General Rich Coleman because it was his dual Ministry of Housing that was being investigated by the RCMP.

Why the delay Rich, or is this ongoing investigation by the RCMP as explosive as the BC Rail raid, eh.
 

N.V.G.,

I agree, and have always thought, from the day police raided the BC Legislature, that we were seeing "only the tip of the iceberg" ...

that's why I have tracked this story ever since. And watched with horror as the pattern was repeated over and over, from BC Hydro to BC Ferries and more.

Thank you for your comment today ... but I must say, it gave me some concern. Yes, you use the word "allege" and you make it clear that you are only speculating, and wondering why certain things were done.

But you come very close to suggesting guilt and I won't go there. It's important that we must not pre-judge this trial.

For Basi-Virk and BC Rail, I want a trial, fair and square and credible. Not a posse. OK?
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BC Mary, all I wanted to point out was that Citizen Journalists are not a posse and it was odd that Basi was told to take his posse and do a dirty trick on the NDP.

It made me reflect on how some people, possibly lawyers as MLAs, see themselves once they are elected to Office.

They have all this power; they'll make any promise to get elected, and once sworn in they turn around and do what ever they want.
 

Excuse me, but....

Why doesn't the good Mr. Webster (who, in my opinion, has done a very good job in this role so far) have every single one of those 42,000 pages right NOW!?

(if not yesterday)

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RE 9:27,
A few years ago a warehouse that was/is owned and operate by an American co.,stored BC files from health and social services, was broken into.
The then minister of SOL/GEN Coleman, spoke to media and said,'there's no need for alarm'...???
There is a systemic problem here,
wouldnt you say?!
 

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Anon 1:27 ...

Thanks for this ... I can't seem to recall this incident,

do you have any more details?

Thanks, if you can send them.
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"But you come very close to suggesting guilt and I won't go there. It's important that we must not pre-judge this trial."

I understand and agree with your point above Mary. However, it is really difficult to say much of anything about Campbell and his merry gang without implying or suggesting guilt, unless we limit ourselves to discussing which wife Lord Gord chooses to appear with at which function on which day.

We can discuss that I guess, as it doesn't imply guilt, just hypocrisy and sleaziness!

The NDP are whining about needing donations - how charming. Perhaps if any of them EVER answered an e-mail concerning an issue of concern I would be willing to send them some dough. Judging from past experience of their not even acknowledging receipt of mail about serious issues, I wouldn't even count on knowing if they received my donation until it showed up on my bank statement!

The answer to BC's problems would perhaps be to let the NDP die from bankruptcy and put the BC liaRs in gaol - and start over!
 

Just think! At this rate, with the number of emails found to be relevant, or highly relevant - and with the numbers still left to read...should the numbers stay about the same, they should find another 3,300 relevant emails. Imagine that.

Deleted emails indeed.