The Big Red Elephant In Ms. Clark's Blues Room

WithAFedConHere

AndAFedLibThereVille

This morning, on Public Eye Radio, members of the Rabble-Rousing panel had the guts to ask a question that Gary Mason, in another of his classic Ron Obvious pieces in the Globe yesterday, did not.

Which is the following:

"Did RailGate have anything to do with Christy Clark's 2004 resignation from Gordon Campbell's BC LibCon Cabinet?"

(if you want to hear the discussion it will come up on the last 10 minutes or so of the Pod, here)

Ian Reid is kinda/sorta wondering the same thing:

...It’s well known that Clark’s campaign team and fellow travelers reads like a witness list in the Basi Virk trial: Patrick Kinsella, Jess Ketchum, Mike MacDonald, brother Bruce Clark, ex-husband Mark Marissen, Pilothouse supremo Brian Kieran.

And it’s well known that Clark herself was a likely witness. She had taxpayer paid legal representation at the trial in expectation of her being called. No wonder she goes all grumpy when people raise the issue of a public inquiry......

{snippety doo-dah}

....According to the first of two affidavits filed in court by Executive Council lawyer George Copley backup tapes from 2003 and 2004 containing cabinet member emails were ordered destroyed in the month before 2009 election by an unnamed official.

Copley thought the order had been carried out and the tapes and emails were no longer available. In a second affidavit correcting the first, the official responsible revealed that some tapes did not make it to the crematorium. The rumour is that Clark’s emails are amongst those retained and made available to the defence through the special prosecutor and the Executive Council’s counsel.....

{snippety doodle-dandy}

....The other cache that has been rumoured is a week by week series of notarized memos to file, documenting who told who to do what on the file. These memos are also rumoured to be very revealing about many politicians.....

Things could get interesting if any of that previously disappeared cache were to, suddenly, you know.....

Surface.

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We wrote a heckuva a lot about the 'ordered' Email destruction at the time, which you can read all about in this thread if you like....It is important to remember that this willfully ordered destruction occurred in the MIDDLE of the last election campaign...You know, the election campaign during which The BCLibCons were also NOT planning to introduce the HST...

And in related news, it actually does look like that more FedCons, at least one of which has done some really hard time in that Pen, have lined-up on Ms. Clark's side of the ledger than have FedLibs.....Which could be ironic in the extreme if it turns out that things have actually swung the other way for idealogue-con-aligned redmeat-eater KFalcon.....More on all that later...

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