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   From: nomine@cda.ca   
      
   Remember who she's married/related to with regards the BC Rail scandal and the   
   raid on the   
   Legislature:   
   ___________________________________________   
      
   Vancouver Sun - March 24, 2009   
      
   Aide sold BC Rail data: RCMP   
      
   It was October of 2003 when police started listening to Dave Basi's   
   conversations on his home,   
   government and cellular phones, as well as monitoring his e-mails.   
      
   They were looking for evidence linked to a large cocaine and mar   
   juana-trafficking operation   
   between B.C. and Ontario.   
      
   What the RCMP say they picked up, while eavesdropping on the former   
   ministerial aide to   
   then-finance minister Gary Collins, was startling new information that led   
   them to a   
   separate -- and more high-profile -- investigation.   
      
   Police allege, in search warrant documents released Monday, that Basi received   
   money in   
   exchange for "information and documents" he gave to Erik Bornman, a partner in   
   Pilothouse   
   Public Affairs Group.   
   [. . . .]   
   The document suggests Bornman recommended the two provincial aides in a list   
   of names he sent   
   to Mark Marissen, who was B.C. co-campaign chair for the federal Liberals in   
   January's election   
   and is the husband of former B.C. Liberal deputy premier Christy Clark.   
      
   The earlier documents also state police believed that Basi may have given   
   information regarding   
   Roberts Bank, a BC Rail spur line, to Bruce Clark, a federal Liberal   
   fundraiser and Christy   
   Clark's brother.   
      
   Bruce Clark declined to be interviewed Monday, but in the past has maintained   
   he did nothing   
   wrong.   
      
   More than a year after the drug investigation, Project Everywhichway, was   
   launched, Basi was   
   among eight people charged on Sept. 15, 2004 with drug-trafficking offences.    
   [. . . .]   
      
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   I would trust ex-BC Liberal Finance Minister, Carole Taylor, before I would   
   trust Christy Clark   
   with anything.  If Clen Clark could be forced out of office for accepting a   
   Swiss Army knife as   
   a gift, Christy Clark should be denied even being able to run for the office   
   of Premier for   
   being related to persons involved with the biggest scandal to hit the BC   
   government - the BC   
   LIBERAL government in which Christy Clark was a major player.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)