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At public meetings launching the Cullen commission into money laundering, some denounced former provincial solicitor-general Rich Coleman as if he were a Great Satan an avatar of all the Liberal failures.
After two years of investigation, Coleman on Wednesday left the commission’s online witness window having proven why he was re-elected often and a senior minister for so long. His critics must have been deflated.
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Forget about no smoking gun, Coleman sounded confident, forthright and in command of the issues he confronted as a cabinet minister for nearly two decades especially about dirty money.
VANCOUVER British Columbia s longest-serving gaming minister was asked Wednesday if he would have done things differently to stamp out money laundering at provincial casinos. Rich Coleman, who first assumed responsibility for gaming in 2001 and held the job off and on until 2013, testified for more than four hours at the Cullen Commission public inquiry into money laundering. The former Liberal deputy premier rejected previous inquiry testimony by former top-ranking investigators who said Coleman was part of efforts to put gaming profits ahead of growing concerns about large amounts of suspicious cash at casinos with ties to organized crime. “As you look back, do you look back and say, Here s a problem that may have developed and I might have done things differently had I had different or better information at the time?” asked Brock Martland, a lawyer for the commission.
And meanwhile, the union s president is highlighting the situation as symptomatic of excessively high tuition. It s unacceptable that people are preying on students who are financially vulnerable, said TRU union president Dustin McIntyre. No student should have to be forced to sell their body to pay for education.
In a letter sent Tuesday to B.C. colleges and universities, Advanced Education Minister Naomi Yamamoto warned that adult entertainment industry representatives may try to attend post-secondary job fairs this fall in jurisdictions across Canada.
The warning was prompted by a recruitment drive for strip clubs in Windsor, Ontario offering to pay tuition for pretty girls attending the city s university if they would strip.