Gosh! Sure Hope Nobody Sprains An Ankle (Or Worse) Jumping Off The C.C. Express

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So.

It would appear that Mdme. Justice MacKenzie has finally done the right thing.

Here's what we were waiting for, from Keith Fraser, in The Province:

A key Crown witness in the Basi-Virk case says he began giving cash to former ministerial aide Dave Basi in return for political favors soon after the 2001 provincial election and nearly a year before beginning to pay bribes in the B.C. Rail scandal, say court documents released Monday.

Eric Bornman, then a lobbyist in Victoria, told police that he believed he first met Basi and Basi's co-accused, Bobby Virk, in 1999 in a "political capacity," the documents say.

"Subsequent to meeting, Basi and Virk became important political allies of mine and social acquaintances," Bornman is quoted in an interview conducted in April 2004.

"I also proceeded to, there was an exchange at that time of political favors, prior to the B.C. Liberals forming government, in 2001."

Bornman says that he, Basi and Bruce Clark, the brother of Liberal leadership candidate Christy Clark, entered into "casual discussions" around the possibility of a government relations communications practice.....

And that's just K. Fraser's lede....

Go and read it all.

Right now.

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So.

Here's the thing.....

Why on earth did PK and the High Flyers switch horses at the last minute and take the chance?

I mean they could have ridden Big Rich all the way to the finish-line and been safe.

Were the fo-gro numbers for Ms. Clark so high-in-the-sky that they just couldn't resist?

Or....

Did they figure they had to try and keep as many folks as possible in the fold to try and limit the damage?

This, I think, just became a very interesting race.

And personally, I have my binoculars trained on the jockeys, the trainers, and the owners (ie. not the horses).

(and apologies for mixing, mangling and mutilating all the metaphors...was just too difficult to resist)

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I always wondered what turned Mr. Bornman so fast, and so hard, way back when. Well, I guess, perhaps, that now we know....

Given that he knew all about this from the start, how could SP Berardino have possibly played so coy all those years?...Me thinks, perhaps, it is time for the real tough questions to start because NO ONE is protected by sub-judice, real or imaginary, now.

Of course, to underestimate the resourcefulness of the High Flyers would be a mistake...I wonder what their strate(r)gy will be...Unleash the Fang first, backed with threats of litigation to anyone who attempts link a billion dollar indemnity strawberry sundae big meal deal to a coating of double-chocolate fudge-dipped strategic advice perhaps?....

Update: 11:00pm Monday....And now it would appear that the K. Boessenkool's jump from the train earlier today is being used as deflector spin....Ian Bailey, as is his wont, plays the straight-man once again (note: on Mr. Bailey's byline that this came out AFTER K. Fraser's piece quoted above).

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