Fraud...Sea to Shining Sea

Nobody's in jail...yet.
But many certainly should be.
And we hope they will be!

Whether it's the as yet to be proven fraudulent expense claims of James and Lenz--top bureaucrats in the B.C. Legislature--and the province's money-laundering scandal, or the long-whispered-about foreign investor corruption that now includes Charlottetown, P.E.I., Canada's reputation on the world stage has sunk to new lows.

Or maybe not.
Perhaps Canada's reputation is marked as "simple-minded", especially in China?


Loan sharks, banks and even elected officials in the federal and provincial governments are implicated.

Canada's top financial administrator is now promising some action. 
Failing to secure convictions makes one wonder just how seriously governments are taking this issue, considering that sizeable funds flow through corporations controlled by governments, i.e. Casinos.
How about casinos on native lands?

But all this isn't new, and goes back as far as 1999 when then-Premier Glen Clark was investigated in what was known as Casinogate. 


Money laundering is a gift-horse for governments.

And Christy Clark's Liberal government actively sought to minimize the exposure of money laundering.  Why would government, voluntarily, seek a reduction of the millions flowing into provincial coffers?  Whether it's money laundering or real estate (the property transfer tax), provincial governments gain, gain, gain, gain dollars.

"Time to clean house of the ugly dirt that lurks in all corners," Kia would've said.


Pity the RCMP whose investigative channels are stretched thin.
Let's hope they're not worried about discovering the involvement of their immediate bosses?