24 Hours (Vancouver);
The president of the Liberal Party of Canada’s B.C. branch was under subpoena for over three months to testify in the upcoming breach of trust trial of former provincial government aides David Basi and Bob Virk before resigning his position in January.
Lobbyist Jamie Elmhirst quit as president Jan. 15 but was subpoenaed by police Oct. 4, 2006 to testify. His letter of resignation to the party makes no mention of the subpoena, instead stating he was leaving to concentrate on his business and upcoming wedding.
Elmhirst, a former aide to B.C. Premier Gordon Campbell and former federal Liberal cabinet minister David Anderson, was a business partner of Erik Bornmann and Brian Kieran in the now-defunct Victoria lobby firm Pilothouse Public Affairs.
Both Bornmann and Kieran will testify as crown witnesses against Basi, Virk and B.C. Liberal government communications aide Aneal Basi in the trial starting April 2.
On Dec. 28, 2003, the same day police searched the B.C. Legislature and other locations, a search warrant was executed on Pilothouse offices.
The charges allege that David Basi and Virk were bribed to provide confidential information on the $1-billion privatization of BC Rail to Bornmann, who was a lobbyist for OmniTRAX, one of the bidders. Aneal Basi is accused of money laundering.
Just another bad week to have won the Liberal leadership.
h/t reader Steven
RE: socialism (the real kind, not the all encompassing smear used by the right against anyone that disagrees with them
Could you kindly point us to examples of ‘real’
socialism and ‘smear’ socialism. I have no idea what you mean. Unless you are one of those lefties who believe the reason socialism has led to increased poverty everywhere it has ever been practiced is because it just has not been done ‘right’ yet.
“Real” socialism: any of various theories or systems of social organization in which the means of producing and distributing goods is owned by the government.
“Smear”: calling anyone who doesn’t advocate the above a “socialist” simply because they don’t support your right wing views.
Yes please let’s all listen to another Russian mass murderer tell us how “the real kind” of socialism should be applied.