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Given the Dipperians' previous decision to not go all Charbonneau on the money launderingapalooza that may or may not have our fair Lotusland in a financial vice, I was having a hard time deciphering David Eby's recent tweet in which he upped the ante on the magnitude of the problem.
Well.
It turns out Mr. Eby is upset that the Feds have shut he and his out.
Sam Cooper of the Global Postal Media Service, who unearthed some data compiled by the Horsemen that helped raise Mr. Eby's ire, has the story.
Here is Mr. Cooper's lede:
B.C. Attorney General David Eby says he’s frustrated Canada’s federal government hasn’t shared a police intelligence study that showed organized crime groups are suspected of laundering billions of dollars in B.C. real estate.
At a press conference on Thursday, Eby referred to a confidential RCMP intelligence study obtained and investigated by Global News, which showed police found crime networks tied to China had laundered over $1 billion in Vancouver luxury real estate in 2016...
Hmmmmm....
Liberal (as in slightly differing flavours of a political brand) wheels within protective wheels perhaps?
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As for that bit of babbling wordplay in the sub-header....AOC!
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perhaps the federal Liberals have too much to loose in a Charb. style inquiry. There is a measure of closeness between the B.C. Lieberals and the federal Liberals. The Feds did hire el gordo to be part of an "advisory" panel for the NAFTA 2 talks and then Christy's ex. does do work for the federal Liberals.
All this money laundering may have implications for the federal Liberals so.......they don't want it to go anywhere, hence the with holding of information.
What is all that held up our country's economy was money laundering?
Hence some folks lack of appetite when the soup du jour is Strategic Voting.
The administration of justice is a provincial power under the Constitution Act. The Attorney General of British Columbia says he’s attempting to fulfill the province’s duty under the Act, but the federal government is obstructing him.
Who ya gonna call?
The Liberal appointed Governor General?
speaking of corruption in B.C., The Tyee, in its e mail newsletter has an article up "Trial Turns Spotlight on Pension Fund's Timber-West Purchase, Rich Coleman's Role and a Hell's Angel's Connection"
With a head line like that, read it and then read some other things. So it turns out that TLT(Ted Leroy) Trucking is getting its day in court. It sued Timber West because the allege Timber West drove it into bankruptcy. "plaintiff's claims are based in conspiracy and fraud". TLT Trucking employed 530 people over here on Vancouver Island.
The trial begins tomorrow in Nanaimo and is reported to be lasting 40 days.
Another company, Mun's Lumber (owner Geoff Courtnall--former hockey player, sued and won against Timber West for "negotiating in bad faith".
the third company which dealt with Timber West in the same area and time didn't sue. It must have been the winner and its owner was a member or former member of the Hell's Angels, according to the reports he was willing to work for the lower bid numbers.
Now at the time Timber West was a publicly traded company which wasn't doing so well. If the bids for the truck logging were low it increased the value of the company. In the end 2 pension funds bought timber west and that involved help from you guessed it RICH COLEMAND. There is a copy of his memo to the CEO of Timber West about it. One of the pension funds was a B.C. government worker pension fund and the other was a federal government worker pension fund which included the federal works, military, and RCMP. The RCMP weren't that happy about their pension fund now including a company which did business with a former member or member of the Hell's Angels.
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the Vancouver Sun, 18 June 2011 reported B.C. Supreme Court approved the BILLION DOLLAR acquisition of timber west.
16 July 2008, C.B.C. reported Auditor General John Doyle was less than amused by Rich Coleman's permitting the sale of forestry lands for development. Guess he wasn't happy because the company selling its forest lands was Western Forest Products of which Big Rich's brother was an executive and Doyle was concerned about conflict of interest and insider trading by government staff.
About the same time these changes were made another was made which no longer required forestry companies, which logged on private land to have to re forest the land. Nice change if you can get it and you get to keep a lot of change.
About the same time things like Lannan Woods, provincial land, was sold to a private developer, Crown Isle. Stan Hagen, the then MLA/Cabinet Minister offered the land to Coulson of Crown isle for $350K. Once the community found out, they tried to buy it, so a closed bid situation was developed to appease the locals. In the end the community bid $600K and change and Coulson, $1m AND change. So there went the land the locals thought was a park and Caulson gained land next to his property. He then clear cut it, much to the dismay of the neigbhours. People alleged there were logging violations and wild life violations and fish steam violations. Nothing was ever done and the property still sits there looking like a moon scape.
So if we are looking at corruption in this province, I'd suggest we have an inquiry and that inquire go back to the start of this century, because as Laila Yuile writes there was some work done on the sea to sky highway which was questionable. At the time there were a lot of questions about construction. so the question is do we like Quebec have a big problem with corruption in construction and our lumber industry.
Corruption doesn't just start one day, its starts small and slow and as things develop people (some times who are crooks) try other things and they work and then finally, upp we're just one big criminal enterprise.
If the Eby can't start an inquiry perhaps we need another type of inquiry, one where a group of interested people get together, research and put a thesis together and present it to the MSM and public. Don't think the MSM will be that interested because its only the Tyee which is reporting on the trial in Nanaimo.
May have to go and watch it especially if Coleman has to testify. I may never see Gordon Campbell come back in handicuff but I'd settle perhaps for seeing Coleman held to account for some of his actions because he is still sitting there doing the work of the B.C. Lieberals and not all that forth coming about what they knew and when they knew it and why they closed that RCMP unit. Don't buy his response to date.
did write and ask the editor of the Nanaimo bulletin if they are gong to cover the trial. Hey it saves having to go and watch it myself. I'm retired.
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