Open Letter to John Doyle, Auditor-General of British Columbia: The Information You Need On the Buying of Dave Basi and Bob Virk by the BC Liberals is Right Here
Dear Mr. Doyle:
I noticed the other day how you’ve been forced to go back to the courts to seek an order that will compel the BC Liberal government to comply with your more than reasonable requests for information, related to the deal between the government, David Basi and Robert Virk.
Specifically, you’re looking for information related to the mechanics of how this shameful deal transpired.
Don’t feel badly. This is a government led by a woman whose operatives cheated to install her as Premier–a position that has never before been so thoroughly soiled by anyone as unqualified as Ms. Clark.
As well, you will know that after ten years of gifting friends and insiders, billions of dollars (BC Rail being the most egregious example, closely followed by IPPs) you will find nothing but BC Liberal lickspittles littered in key positions throughout the deal you seek to learn more about. Do not be deceived thinking you’re having a tough time obtaining information key to your investigation of a six million dollar proposition–which we are to believe saw two “criminals” be “punished” (that’s my big joke for today), because of any prudent undertaking by bureaucrats to satisfy solicitor-client privilege or some privacy rules.
To use the patois of the street, that’s bullshit, and the people attempting to stonewall your investigation, are all receiving orders from the Premier herself. Oh, of course, she may not be barking the orders herself (she’s actually quite good at that, barking, I mean) as those demands would be made through surrogates and staffers–many of whom were with her through the sale of BC Rail. Remember, former Attorney General Barry Penner, as asleep as he remains on this file (he’s fool enough to continue thinking Messers Basi and Virk acted alone) left Cabinet, in part, because during the first Cabinet meeting after your original win in court (whereby you obtained the general set of documents related to the $6 million deal) Ms. Clark, who has clearly lied (what else is new?!) about running an open and transparent government, wanted Mr. Penner to gum up your investigation by immediately launching an appeal.
Mind, I can see why Mr. Penner might have been in a bit of a conflict: I just finished listening to his multiple conversations that were intercepted by the RCMP during the investigation that led to the raid on the legislature. Therein, Mr. Penner bitterly complains to Mr. Basi and many times to Mr. Virk about former premier Gordon Campbell and whines incessantly about the various wrong headed directions of his very own government. I can see where a lawyer with great principles–while a politician with extremely poor judgement would be conflicted, however, trust me, Ms Clark’s efforts to derail you won’t stop at the intra-Cabinet stunt she tried to pull without Mr. Penner’s cooperation.
You see, Mr. Doyle, Ms. Clark was a serial leaker of Cabinet information to her friends Erik Bornmann, Brian Kieran, Jamie Elmhirst, Dave Basi and she actually dispensed specific advice–based on inside Cabinet information, directly to Mr. Virk–her legislative assistant from 1996-2001, on how he should handle the tax pool information, of which CN Rail took complete advantage during their relentless bullying tour of competing bidders.
Ms. Clark has everything to hide with respect to the BC Rail matter and it’s only you and a snap election (which I’m told is “being planned” by her closest confidantes for the Spring of 2012) that stands in her way of burying the BC Rail scandal–of which, you should know by now, she was a key player.
The Premier has gotten a free ride from many of her pathetic, lazy friends in the media and she’s skilled at outright lying about her real role in the sale of BC Rail–a role which essentially amounts to a clear breach of trust–at minimum (what else would you call leaking Cabinet information to your friends, who were active consultants in the sale–AND ADMITTED BRIBERS OF PUBLIC OFFICIALS???)
She’s been getting away with it, for the most part.
Until now.
What you are about to read is the fully detailed account of how the $6 million deal with Messers Basi and Virk transpired, beginning with some valuable background. From this, I will make humble suggestions, although, as you may have noticed, humility isn’t exactly my strong suit.
What you do is your business, of course, but I’ve been following this for many years and am the only writer in the province to have viewed almost every court document related to the trial of Messers Basi, Virk and Basi.
Based on my extensive review of the evidence provided by the RCMP, prosecution and having seen many of the defence motions, had this trial continued, it would have most certainly brought down the current provincial government; likely been the cause of a full inquiry into RCMP misconduct during the investigation phase and resulted in the laying of charges against several key players involved in the sale of BC Rail, for everything from influence peddling, bribery and breach of trust. Senior Cabinet members would have been significantly embarrassed as well as several members of the mainstream media, whose intercepted and exceedingly foolish comments would have been made public. Members of the BC Liberals’ inner sanctum would have been forever shamed, prominent members of Vancouver’s business elite would have been utterly humiliated and noteworthy members of the political bailiwick from British Columbia, that elected Paul Martin leader of the federal Liberal Party and Prime Minister, would still be unable to show their faces in public. Note that Ms. Clark, her ex-husband Mark Marissen (who is still a close political confidante to the Premier) and one of her brothers, Bruce (who serves in a similar role), were THE distinguished members of that same political organization.
You might recognize the names of their two most valued operatives in the Indo-Canadian community: David Basi and Robert Virk. In fact, Clark et al, used both men for their extensive networks, inside and outside the Indo-Canadian community.
For now though, let me provide you with some background on the documentation you seek and then I’ll tell you what to look for from the Attorney General’s Ministry in case your legal quest does not bear fruit.
At the outset, David Basi and Bob Virk were required to sign FULL indemnity agreements, which they did, right after they were charged and the whole process moved from the investigation phase to open court. There was NEVER any question as to what would happen: If they were found guilty, inclusive of a ‘guilty’ plea, they would be required to pay their legal fees back to the provincial government. Dr. Toope’s recent, seemingly incomplete report (apparently he was rushing to join Ms. Clark in India) doesn’t leave any question as to whether such indemnities covered civil or criminal matters.
However, even though the government evidently followed the right principle to begin with, a series of events, including the entry of former AG Wally Oppal as backroom negotiator between crown and defence and the intervention of both Deputy AG David Loukidelis and then AG Mike deJong, rendered the indemnity covenant null and void.
From Dr. Toope’s November 8, 2011 letter in reply to Attorney General Shirley Bond:
“My view is that for criminal indemnities, conviction (including the case of a guilty plea) should trigger a case for full reimbursement” (emphasis added).Guilt in a criminal case necessarily means that the public servant was not acting within the scope of his or her duties or in the course of employment. No BC government employment or duty can require the commission of a criminal offence. No valid purpose articulated in my report would be served by allowing for indemnification in such cases, because there is no public interest in protecting the public servant from the full consequences (including financial consequences) of criminal liability. Nor is it personally unfair to public servants to expect that they bear the consequences of their criminal activity.”
I think this makes clear that the government followed the right principle, in law, at the genesis of the matter. But consecutive trial successes by the defence began to unravel a case Mr. Berardino was losing control of, resulting in a possible full-scale meltdown, that would have surely vanquished a chap named Gordon Campbell, with his closest friends and insiders in tow.
They thought with all the shenanigans they had hatched, through conflicted RCMP investigators and special prosecutors (who were party financial supporters), that both Dave Basi and Bob Virk would never survive a trial and would surely be found guilty as charged, regardless of any defence triumph.
But a funny thing happened on the way to the salting of the process by Gordon Campbell and his henchmen (if you go to my search bar and type in ‘Basi Files’ you’ll see clear evidence that Gordon Campbell was quarterbacking this whole sham of a process–through the sale and subsequent trial).
In June of 2007, defence counsel for the accused, specifically Joe Doyle (great name, huh?) Kevin McCullough and Michael Bolton, QC, began winning application after application, culminating in a mammoth rebuke of the prosecution by Madam Justice Elizabeth Bennett: She found that the crown had not met even BASIC disclosure.
What does this tell you? Let me help. In a case eventually described by Mr. Berardino as “easy to try” why would there be such a problem with the defence obtaining disclosure documents to which they were entitled?
Madam Justice Bennett’s reprimand of the crown wasn’t simply a rap across the knuckles, it was a wet 2×4 across the backside and bonus over the head. And so the story continued, as the defence had to fight tooth and nail to receive documents which they were entitled to, by law, while ignoramuses in the media, like Bill Good of CKNW radio, continued to foolishly (and erroneously) proclaim how the defence was “running out the clock” and “dragging their feet.” Nothing could have been further from the truth.
Roll forward to the night before the actual trial (queue the general ‘Deal Clock now) when Special Prosecutor Bill Berardino, having been dragged to a position of providing basic disclosure and having lost an extraordinary number of applications to an emboldened defence team, made the first offer:
David Basi: 5 years jail.
Bobby Virk: 3 years jail.
After both Basi and Virk were helped off the floor–from near unconsciousness, their defence lawyers scoffed at Mr. Berardino’s ridiculous offer. During an intermission on the first day of trial, Special Prosecutor Berardino caught Kevin McCullough in the hallway and insisted that ‘once the trial starts, that’s it, no negotiating’ in what had the revered talent of Mr. McCullough, wringing his hands in anticipation of a full scale assault on the crown. You see, Mr. Berardino was showing his hand: He’d lost control of the trial’s destiny and needed a deal, and not because he was worried about the taxpayer (as he claimed post-trial; I’ll get to this further down, trust me).
By the time Michael Bolton took to the courtroom and made mincemeat of former Campbell Chief of Staff Martyn Brown, Mr. Berardino’s threat of no more plea deals looked comprehensively nude. The crown’s case was coming apart rather rapidly and Mr. Berardino was trying to put a good face on it while still making Messers Basi and Virk look like they and they alone were the problem (because that’s the narrative Mr. Campbell demanded):
Basi: 3 years jail.
Virk: 2 years jail.
Defence counsel, once again, dismissed Mr. Berardino’s desperation. (Note: Not once during the early offers was the indemnity mentioned–a key point, the significance of which I’ll explain later).
Now, here is the part where Mr. Berardino’s statements about saving taxpayer’s money appear equally as feeble and empty as his bluffing to defence counsel. If this were true, and the government was trying to save all of us money, why would they take July and August off? The summer of 2010 gave the defence yet another opportunity to recharge, and while the government stewed over how to manipulate the defendants into submission, the meter was running for every one of defence counsel–of course, on the taxpayer’s dime.
In September, by the time Brian Kenning was put on the stand, the agitation and mightier-than-thou conduct of Mr. Berardino towards the defence was about all Kevin McCullough was going to take. From Mr. Kenning’s first moment in the witness box–when he provided testimony that was often conflicting and incoherent, Mr. McCullough took great pleasure in removing the gloves and severely bloodying Brian Kenning, punishing him, leaving Mr.Kenning looking extremely foolish and Mr. Berardino, at one point, with his head in his hands. It wasn’t just “some of the sharpest courtroom work seen in decades” as one retired QC put it to me during a break in proceedings, “Mike and Kevin are ripping the case to shreds…even Bill, as good as he is, isn’t as good as either of them. I think it’s over for Gordon and his friends unless they find a way to end this thing. Doyle is no push over but Bolton and McCullough are gonna turn this into a blood bath. Bill’s got to be crazy to think he can win this thing. Not a chance.”
Remember, there was NEVER any initiative on the part of the defence to plea bargain–that was all coming strictly from the crown.
In October of 2010, after yet another brief recess, as David Basi was recovering from illness, Bill Berardino approached defence counsel and “threatened” to put Gary Collins on the stand–at which point one of the defence looked around the room, then the Special Prosecutor firmly in the eye, and without flinching uttered the following words: “Prepare for nuclear armageddon.”
Bill Berardino blinked almost immediately.
As Wally Oppal entered the fray.
No one really knows who gave Judge Oppal the order to become the backroom conduit between crown and the defence, but he was and produced very effectively for the Campbell government, that had already buffered their Premier from the ‘Basi-Virk’ trial by appointing Allan Seckel, QC, to Mr. Campbell’s office a year earlier (this was in anticipation of the trial). Mr. Seckel, a well-respected lawyer, had moved over from being Deputy Attorney General, where every bit of ‘Basi-Virk’ intel was available to him–and thus, to Mr. Campbell.
(Now, start the ‘Time Clock’ for the $6 million–although it’s actually more).
After Judge Oppal intervened, a new and improved Bill Berardino appeared:
Basi: conditional sentence.
Virk: conditional sentence.
Basi (Aneal): discharge.
And the details of the legal fees would be “worked out later.”
The government’s case had completely collapsed under the overwhelming weight of the ‘Bolton and McCullough Show’. Dave Basi, Bob Virk and Aneal Basi were going to walk. Bill Bererdino failed and now then premier’s other pals were going to get the deal done.
It was all but over.
Enter David Loukidelis. It was his efforts which began the discussion of the removal of security on the properties of Messers Basi and Virk and the subsequent discussion which lead to the $6 million (plus) deal (BTW, properties being held had ample equity available for liquidation). Along with former premier Campbell’s friend–Deputy Finance Minister Graham Whitmarsh, Mr. Loukidelis approved the defendants’ legal fees be paid–in full, contrary to the accepted standard you read about above, courtesy of Dr. Toope (which begs the question–if David Loukidelis and Graham Whitmarsh blew it, why weren’t they both fired long ago by this government?)
At this point, Attorney General Mike de Jong was brought into the picture (which annihilates the absurdities coming from current AG Shirley Bond about no politicians being involved in the deal). de Jong, who is the current government’s most vicious political animal and Premier Clark’s real deputy premier (he’s in India with her), was responsible to finesse the messaging of what was surely going to be cries of bribery by government.
Ask for a memo/briefing note, Mr. Doyle, written by a member of Ministry staff in the early days of October (and ask for the FULL package of the final deal).
The memo is not only addressed to Mike de Jong, it’s logged in his book as received by him (and then try to navigate his inane statements in early 2011, to Mike Smyth of CKNW, who challenged de Jong, on-air, about his myriad of meandering explanations for the six million dollar inducement–including saving the taxpayers money).
So the final deal:
Aneal Basi: full discharge (since the money laundering charge would be regarded as laughable, considering he declared and paid taxes on the cheques he received from Erik Bornmann….does that sound like what a launderer would do???)
2 years conditional sentence each for Dave Basi and Bob Virk; all legal fees paid; security returned….and a bonus…a rather large ONE, each…
What do utterly corrupt governments do when they need cover, Mr. Doyle? Who do they call? Who would help them? What would make everything better? What could they do to make everything go away?
0:34. You follow?
Good luck, Mr. Doyle. Good luck brave, Sir. Please do the beleaguered people of this province proud.
They’re counting on you.
http://www.theprovince.com/Basi+Virk+audit+blocked/5717866/story.html
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Yes, saw this, but thanks so much for posting!
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Alex, once over coffee with Jack Webster he told me that if you’re not controversial in this business, then you’re a failure. Never since his time do I feel we’ve had a good journalist who wasn’t afraid to take on the “big machine”. Well, that all changed tonight. Congratulations on a story well done and keep up the excellent work.
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That’s the highest compliment I think I’ve ever been paid. I’m overwhelmed, thank you. The truth is I really DON’T belong in this business. It’s a dead craft. But I love being a writer. Over 100,000 BCers come her per month. Double that across the continent and pockets of Europe and Asia (largely for my anti-global warming hysteria positions). What Jack so valued is absolutely gone from what we do. I’m very alone sometimes, but I don’t mind. There are a few others, certainly.
It’s funny sometimes, I get the call from a major columnist or member of the press, who happily lauds my work and then won’t refer to it in his own work precisely because it’s “controversial.” It’s quite comical, if you step over the tragedy of it all. At least the ones who call me admit that they can’t get tougher topics past their editors.
Interesting anecdote: Jack was a good friend of my Dad’s and used to walk out the back of the Grosvernor Hotel, across the lane and in the back door of Mr. Jake’s for a double Ballantyne’s over, then a big, fat rib eye, medium rare and good talk. During the summer’s when I was out of school, I used to hide behind the cigarette machine in the afternoons and listen to the greatest stories about all sorts of folks. And like clockwork he’d yell, “Alec! Where are you?!” And I’d run and bring him his ashtray. “Don’t run, you could slip and fall,” he’d bellow. He hated the plastic ashtrays, so my Dad bought him a nice porcelain one from Birks. I still have it. My Mom complained for years that “Mr. Webster’s ashtray at the downtown restaurant was nicer than any of the ones at the house.” Funny that. My parents never smoked!
One time I remember, at the end of a long, hot summer day, I was so tired I fell asleep next to the damn machine and when I eventually woke up, I was in the back of my Dad’s car, with a crisp $20.00 bill in my pocket.
When my Dad helped me from the car–after we got into the carport, he explained: “That’s from Uncle Jack. He’s said ‘thank you’ for bringing him his ashtrays this summer but you feel aslepp. Put it in your piggybank.”
It was the first of many Webster twenties. I loved the man. He was a very special man, whose kindness knew no bounds.
Again, thank you. Being a writer is more who I am than what I do. I’ve never loved anything more. I really appreciate your kind words.
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Alex, that $20 Webster Award has already paid off in spades.
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Ha! That’s too funny. I never thought of it like that.
To be brutally frank, I gave up on the Webster Awards two years ago. After multiple nominations, I was flattered, but the commercialization of the thing really turned me off. David McLean and CN as sponsors????? And I wrote them a letter complaining as to why Tieleman hadn’t been recognized for his legal coverage of the BC Rail scandal and Basi Virk trial. Then I penned a complaint about how they could have recognized Bill Good before Harvey Oberfeld!!!!!!! I demanded they name an award for Oberfeld on his own! Harv put investigative journalism on the bloody map in BC.
The responses I received were pathetic, mindless pap. So I gave up. I got offered free tickets by a couple different news stations the last two years but I politely declined. Poor Jack, he must be doing back flips over the crass commercialization of his awards. So sad.
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Yes, but Jack awarded you personally. I like that.
How you must have felt….
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Yeah, he was a really special guy. He drank more coffee and smoked more cigarettes than anyone I’d ever met. A very, very kind man.
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Bill Good received a Webster? Seriously? That’s horrifying.
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Oh, not just a Webster Award, THE Webster Award–The Lifetime Achievement Award. The whispering in the room was palpable: No one credible thought he was worthy. Everyone who understood the significance of what had just happened it was the top conversation in the bar after the dinner presentation.
The single most appalling selection in years.
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“It’s a dead craft.”
How? When…?
It’s not dead, it just become impossible to do when outlets with the budget to support investigation, travel, legal etc. are compromised and corrupted by connections to politicians.
Don’t know how you manage it….
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I just don’t quit.
And I’m encourage by some significantly good signs that my work is appreciated very much. The goons in the blogosphere amount to belly lint.
What I do here they can only dream of. It takes time, research, patience and some controversy–not manufactured. Not when you cover topics that require such heavy lifting.
Thanks! Good to hear from you, as always….
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After reading your articulate piece for a fourth time today Alex, I am left with a few thoughts that I hope you can help me digest.
Without the benefit of transcript, I can only assume that Berardino was thinking with his short pencil by starting his case with Brown and Kenning. I can only assume that his intentions were to intimidate the defense by demonstrating that the crown witnesses could manufacture teflon memories on demand, and that would scare the defense into thinking that there would be no low hanging fruit to be plucked from an uprightous judicial basket.
What other possible strategy could there be by using these two witnesses in order to prove that a couple of ministerial aids were lining their pockets with a little bit of glitter?
What the hell did these two high level diamond sponges know about what Basi and Virk were doing other that what Spiderman spilled ? Really. My daughter played better chess than that when she was 10.
My mind’s eye keeps returning to the picture of Virk being “moved along” by McCullough outside the courthouse……you know the one where he holds his briefcase and his pen in his right hand while wearing a reverse Joker smile. My guess it was he that suggested the possibility of a neuclear spanking.
After reading your work Alex, I now understand that it would not have been an option to go for broke, by either side. There had to be a trade off, albeit a token one.
It’s a shame that our system allows us to remove our most sensitive body parts from the wringer….. after the taxpayer’s soap has been all but used.
You have provided us all with more thought provoking information than we could have possibly hoped for Alex. Thank you once again.
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You’re most welcome.
As for Berardino: He kept moving about the witnesses to achieve exactly what you claim. But he made a cardinal error when he said he’d call Collins.
He didn’t expect that kind of response from McCullough (yes, it was McCullough) who had already lit the entire courtroom on fire twice by then.
Berardino blinked because he knew what the government wanted–and it couldn’t be delivered. His bigger problem was that all three defence lawyers were so skilled, he didn’t know where the next salvo was coming from and to be frank, without Bornmann–whose testimony would have been DEMOLISHED, they had no other case. The RCMP investigation was LOADED with conflict,; Berardino himself should have never been allowed as he once donated to the BC Liberals–specifically, Wally Oppal’s campaign….
Fog lifting now, my darlings?
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Checkmate!….exactly.
Ooops off topic Alex ..sorry I forgot to tell you that the Lobster Ravioli was to die for. They send you their regards.
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Ah, that’s better.
Yeah, Castelli’s is wonderful. Man, I miss the desert.
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I showed Nick your email on my phone. They treated us like Gods.
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Really?
Marvelous. Good people. My favorite Italian restaurant in all of California. Homemade and authentic. And I think you can still have a smoke on the patio. At Ruth’s Chris up Highway 111, they had their own room. Not sure if it’s still there.
We’re planning on going back down in the next six months. It’s been too long…
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“lit the entire courtroom on fire twice by then”
“Please sir, may I have some more?”
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Yeah, he laid into Brian Kenning like there was no tomorrow and his questions of Martyn Brown made him look like a complete fool. It was pure magic. Bolton is different. He approaches a witness with the comportment of a country doctor. He lulls you almost to sleep and then when you slip up, he turns it on. With McCullough it’s DEFCON 1, in your face, all here, all the time. Like stand in front of a locomotive.
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Thank you.
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“It was pure magic.”
Thank you Alex, I am going to put that observation between my head and my pillow tonight.
You can’t find this stuff anywhere else.
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You bet.
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With pleasure.
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Here’s a sign of the times about BC gov’t lies.
I dropped into my local casino, Boulevard Casino in Coquitlam BC because they were advertising draws of up $250 for a lucky card tables players between 7aa and 2 pm…I went on Tuesday and today and guess what, I played for over an hour both days (lucky I didn’t lose THESE times) and no draws.
So I ask the pit boss when the draws are, “Every hour on the hour sir”, he says. “They just had a draw before you came in”.
OK, so I stay through the next hour and no draw, and I ask the pit boss again when the draw is. “Oh, they must have had it”, he says. I asked him why I had heard no announcement and he couldn’t answer and quickly left my table and hid at the other end of the pit. Next time he came by to refresh the chip dock, I asked him to check who had won and sure enough, he his again.
So I went to the floor manager and asked him when the draw was and he tried to tell me that they were going to have it. When I mentioned that all the pit bosses I spoke with the last 2 times I was in said on the hour every hour, he got dismissive and glared into my eyes and said, “We’ve got issues with this hour’s draw”.
Issues right, I was the only one playing at the table I was at the other one that’s usually open had no one at it. I counted a total of 10 people playing at all eligible tables for the draw.
Seems to me that the Boulevard Casino in Coquitlam is not backing up its advertising and should be taken to task. HOWARD BLANK (head honcho at Boulevard), ARE YOU LISTENING !!!!!
What kind of scam is this !!!!!!!!
And to think this casino gets millions of taxpayer dollars for development every year (that goes into their back pockets), it’s amazing what they will stoop to to suck the dollars out of you.
Discuss
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Okay, this is a great story, so I’ll bend the rules and you can comment one or two times, otherwise we need to stick to the topic. Sorry! And thanks!
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The Thought Of The Day
“P.T.Barnum was wrong. One sucker born every minute? Nope. Every second!”
“What kind of scam is this !!!!!!!!”
You got to be kiddin’ me right? The moment you step foot inside a Casino you waived your rights to your money, buddy. That’s the scam, and you are a willing part of it.
If Casinos were in the charity business they would have sported names like The Indoor Tides Casino, The All Endswell Here Joint , dunno’… The Renewal House Of Cash… something like that!
We live in Vancouver and this keeps us busy.
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Very busy!
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The point I was getting at was the Casinos are now stooping to false advertising to get suckers into their casinos now, there’s so few people there now, they must be losing their shirts by staying open during the day. They should be charged with false advertising and Howard Blank should walk the plank…..
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Oh yeah, sorry Alex for the divergence, the BC Rail story is world’s better, keep up the GREAT WORK !!!
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No apologies. Your contributions are always welcome.
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Right, got it!
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Listening to Vaughn & Keith today just re-affirms how badly we need this plastered out in the open. While talking about Mr. Doyle’s requests they still gloss over the fact that this whole thing stems from the ultimate corruption of a government from top to bottom.
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Yeah, I tuned in as well. Pathetic radio.
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Alex…
I’m so privileged to have known you… even anonymously!
Journalism at its best!
What’s incredible is the cowardice wind coming from the MSM sucker uppers.
GR-eetings!
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And it’s a privilege to exchange ideas and be entertained my you. too bad we can’t appear somewhere together. I have many readers who are convinced I’m you.
It’s quite funny.
GR-eetings back at you!
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LOL Alex!
Let me just say to them readers:
“We both are advisers for the Big Guy!
You can’t decide which one is which though?
Your bad…
“Whoooaaahahahaha!… oh, did you say that Alex… or was that me? Oh, excuse me… whoaaahaahahhahhaaaa,..”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv-sKP17xTw
See?
It’s all in the ‘mind’ of the beholder.
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You’re way better than me, me, I mean Glissy….
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Udhe is in the process of building a new home.
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Really, that’s interesting.
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Glad you are not giving up on this, most people are because of the perceived hopelessness of the situation and they feel the frustration of even reading about it. But we NEED someone who will NOT let it go and start something happening. One would hope the NDP would bait a trap in the Legislature and hope the BC Liberals fall into it. But most have no power, so please keep at it, Alex, you are the faint hope clause for what is right to get justice. Thanks.
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My political naiveté here but couldn’t the NDP use calling the rail enquiry as a boost to their election platform for 2013?
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They do but just seem wishy washy from time to time. Dix went to support the occupests to begin with but now supports the govt in their efforts to remove them from provincial land. Can’t make heads nor tails of what they really want sometimes.
Neither can they.
You’re not naive
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WOW!!! I was on a raft in the Colorado River and almost missed this! Thank goodness I never saw it until today and thus missed six weeks of agonizing over when the next shoe would drop. May I only have to wait two more weeks until something happens.
What amazes me is that nothing seems to have evolved from this scintillating piece of journalism. Oh, I’ll wait as a I have a few more years left, but it seems the longer justice is delayed the more likely it will be delayed – statutes of limitation and all that rot.
Great work Alex and I hope the New Year rewards you well!
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Thank you and you.
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I meant …’the longer justice is delayed the more likely it will be DENIED’
Sorry
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I see. Thanks for making that clear.
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