Sunday, June 11, 2017

The Long, Long Tail Of The Crony Party's Original Pay-To-Play Gambit.

990YearsIsALongLongTime
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As Bob Mackin notes, the citizens of British Columbia may never stop paying the cronies that made the BC Liberal govetnment's very first pay-to-play deal:


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What's that, you may be asking.....

Railgate was a pre-Clarklandian, made man-assisted pay-to-play too?

Darn tootin'!



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Meanwhile, over at In-Sights, Norm Farrell is firing on all cylinders.


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8 comments:

Anonymous said...

How can u sue when BCRail is leased.? 988 years left?
Isnt that like suing the car company that leased a car to you.?

North Van's Grumps said...

Bizarre!!!!

Gordon Campbell promised that British Columbians OWN the right-of-Way that CN runs its equipment on ..... for the immediate 90 years after 2004 and with the added option for 900 more

http://blogborgcollective.blogspot.ca/2017/04/trevor-lautens-was-right-about-christy.html

Anonymous said...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BC_Rail

a railway that operated in the Canadian province of British Columbia between 1912 and 2004. It was a class II regional railway and the third-largest in Canada, operating 2,320 km (1,440 mi) of mainline track. Its operations were owned by the public as a crown corporation from 1918 until 2004, when the provincial government leased operations for 999 years to CN.[1][2] The track and other assets, including a marine division and stevedoring subsidiary as well as large tracts of real estate, remain under public ownership. 40 km of track serving the Roberts Bank Superport that were scheduled to be sold to OmniTRAX remain under BC Rail management due to that sale being cancelled because of the transaction being tainted by an influence-peddling and bribery scandal resulting in convictions in 2010. The provincial government, which promised when originally elected never to sell the railway, has announced that the crown corporation and its remaining operations and assets would be "wound down" and taken over by various departments of the Ministry of Transportation The details of the sale/lease to CN, which are related to the OmniTRAX affair, have become the subject of protracted public inquiry as part of the proceedings of the trial surrounding a scandal known as the British Columbia Legislature Raids Affair, or "Railgate". Government leaders and civil servants involved with the arrangements to CN have refused to comment on the deal because the matter "is before the courts".

Lew said...

BC Liberal MLA Ralph Sultan's contact information seems to be missing from that sign. Too bad; I'm sure he would be happy to enlighten the good folks in West Vancouver that keep electing him as to how it is their seaside stroll is now considered illegal activity.

Anonymous said...

There was no "official opposition" during that time.

All those deals are duds.

Anonymous said...

Another order in council to solve this. This was corruption at its finest.

davemj said...

ITs like the Nightmare on Elm Street, this has to be brought out to the public somehow maybe someone or organisation can start a go fund me page and start an ad and info blitz. I dont imagine Postmedia or Glowbull would find this news worthy.Scumball what a fitting name & Crooked Clark.Boy am i pissed as are my old freinds that meet in the mall and pas some print outs.Thanks Ross and everyone else.LOCK THEM UP.

Anonymous said...

Meanwhile in Brazil there is this...

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-06-08/no-one-has-ever-made-a-corruption-machine-like-this-one