Disgusting Bureaucrats

Yes, they are disgusting.
Disgusting criminals, actually!

James and Lenz, and the entire story on misconduct, dubious and lucrative retirement and resignation benefits worth hundreds of thousands of dollars have people totally disgusted with bureaucracy.  They inappropriately "removed liquor", "purchased a wood-splitter and trailer for personal use", and on and on it went.

As previously reported here and in the Vancouver Province, the scandalous actions of Messrs. James and Lenz--senior bureaucrats in the B.C. Legislature--are actually being pursued by House Speaker Darryl Plecas.  He's called a Crusading Speaker by Michael Smyth of the Province, and I agree wholeheartedly!

I think Daryl Plecas deserves a medal from the citizens of B.C. once this is all over.

In a Province story October 13, 2019, Michael Smyth reported that "Darryl Plecas became immediately suspicious of potential waste and corruption going on around him."  Story was entitled "Crusading Speaker says he's only just begun to clean up legislature".

"I'm just a guy trying to get things done, and it's difficult because people try to thwart us," said Plecas.

And it continues to sicken me.

Take the November 24, 2019 Province story "RCMP probe at B.C. legislature focuses on wood splitter purchase". 

The hair on my neck stood up, so I'll address what irked me:

"James...administrative misconduct, including improper acceptance of a $258,000 retirement benefit."  James knew he wasn't entitled to that money!  Isn't that fraud?  Yup, it is in my books.

Yet in a report by former Supreme Court of Canada chief justice Beverley McLachlin, she cleared Lenz of any wrongdoing!  Why????  He was in cahoots with James! 

Even the October report by Doug LePard, former police chief, investigating Lenz' conduct concluded Lenz had committed "egregious breach of public trust" by not being truthful to McLachlin when discussing an incident several years ago involving the removal of liquor from the legislature grounds.
Isn't lying--perjury--to the chief justice a crime?

According to an affidavit in support of the production order, RCMP Const. Rafida Yonadim, an investigator with the federal serious and organized crime division, wrote that police received a complaint from Speaker Plecas containing "numerous allegations of offences committed by employees of the legislature."

Yonadim wrote that there were reasonable grounds to believe James used his position as clerk of the house to "obtain a benefit from the purchase of a trailer and wood splitter paid for by public funds for a purpose other than the public good."

The stated purpose of buying the trailer and wood splitter, which ended up costing $13,000, was so it could be used in the event of a "catastrophic emergency (natural disaster) to remove damaged trees and hydro poles and to create campfires".   That's what James said!  Incredible, isn't it?

Yonadim wrote that the trailer purchase did not go through normal procurement policy procedure and that James' research into the equipment purchase was "outside the scope" of his normal duties, as was his request to pick up the equipment himself.

And it gets worse...
Several locations on the legislature grounds were suggested as places to park the trailer but James "insisted" it be located at his home, the investigator wrote.

Witnesses told police that James' reason for keeping it at his home was "due to no parking available at the legislature even though there actually was space."

The wood splitter was removed from James' home under police supervision.  Both showed signs of use, and "employees at the legislature confirmed these items were never used at the legislature for their intended purpose, as originally planned," Yonadim wrote.

Lying and disgusting bureaucrats.
Commiting fraud.

They need to see the inside of a jail cell...
otherwise they'll be convinced they're above the laws that apply to the rest of us.

Thank you, Darryl Plecas!
Throw the bums into jail.

B.C. Legislature is Disgraceful!

and so is the new leader of the Liberals--Andrew Wilkinson--for his actions running around the Legislature at 10 p.m. taking photos of Speaker Plecas and Alan Mullen, the Speaker's chief of staff, removing computers for the purpose of copying hard drives to "preserve evidence".

All this in the on-going scandal that has rocked the Legislature.

The B.C. Liberals are and were "dangerous" ... to taxpayer dollars.

I agree wholeheartedly with Speaker Plecas, and Mr. Mullen, who said:  "We've had at least five separate incidents in very recent times where documents have mysteriously gone missing."  So Mullen and Plecas hired an independent computer forensics company to prevent that...all of which is entirely within the purview of Speaker Plecas.

The Province newspaper's Michael Smyth did a good job of his story under the heading "Speaker's pal calls Wilkinson 'disgraceful' as battle gets ugly."

And Wilkinson, the new leader of the B.C. Liberals is indeed disgraceful!

I wrote Michael Smyth an email this morning:

"Good story on Victoria’s Secrets!

Mullen and Plecas are correct in what they’re doing...absolutely within the Speaker’s rights (and obligation, I might add).

Wilkinson’s action WAS disgraceful.

Mullen and Plecas are former cops, and I applaud them for looking after taxpayers’ concerns on the abject disgrace that we now call the B.C. Legislature.

My acquaintances and I are increasingly disgusted with the B.C. Liberals, and while none of us voted for Horgan or Weaver, we’re seeing white collar crimes blossom under the Liberals, who not only are/were blind to it, their disdain for the public and tax dollars is readily apparent.

Plecas and Mullen must punish these white collar crimes.

More power to them.

Wilkinson should go hide with the rest of his self-serving Liberal cronies.

Thank you for your excellent news story, Mr. Smith."

The public--the taxpaying public--demands that corruption and white collar crime be punished.

Speaker Plecas is planning to do that.

His chief of staff, Alan Mullen is planning to do that.

But it seems Andrew Wilkinson--and the rest of the old boys' network of B.C. Liberals--don't want that to happen.

The B.C. Liberals should have reminded themselves whose dollars they were wasting

Many of us will NEVER vote B.C. Liberal again.

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?