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Evidence at the inquiry into money laundering suggests that racial stereotypes may be driving and skewing the dirty money debate when a careful analysis does not support the concern.
Lawyer David Butcher hit that nerve in his cross-examination of Len Meilleur, a key bureaucrat for more than a decade and former executive director of compliance at the province’s gaming policy and enforcement branch.
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“Would you agree that it is completely inappropriate to simply draw that link money from China must be illegitimate?” Butcher asked.
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The Big Brother need for more surveillance, less privacy and a more robust apparatus to combat dirty money has become a major theme at B.C.’s inquiry into money laundering.
To serve and protect has become to surveil and predict, as one report put it, and no more so than among those battling money laundering.
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No one so far, however, has presented credible evidence about whether the scope of the problem justifies the exorbitant cost for specialized software, training, analysts, investigators, enforcement, adjudication, or the heavy-handed trampling of privacy and other rights.
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Brandishing a U.S. tribal-law text like holy writ, B.C. lawyer Doug White insisted Indigenous peoples can have the same in Canada their own laws, police and courts.
At a key meeting in November 2018 at the B.C. legislature involving government and Indigenous leaders, he pulled aside Attorney-General David Eby and Public Safety Minister Mike Farnworth and pointed across the Juan to Fuca Strait at Washington State.
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“I waved this book around,” he vividly re-enacted, “and said I want you guys to know what this is. Look across at the southern part of the Coast Salish world … and you will find Coast Salish courts with Coast Salish judges applying Coast Salish law. In the north here, it’s a completely different history of exclusion.
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B.C.âs inquiry into money laundering finally got a glimpse inside what was billed as Canadaâs largest-ever money-laundering investigation, and it was an ugly, ugly sight.
The one-man inquiry commission was told hundreds of police officers and regulators worked from April to October 2015 on a massive joint operation dubbed Project E-Pirate â involving Mounties, municipal cops, the B.C. Gaming Policy and Enforcement Branch, the Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre (Fintrac), B.C. Lottery Corp., and others.
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