I'd like someone to tell me when our province got hijacked, and some sort of banana republic was set up? How many other complaints made have been turned down by MLA's and sitting bureaucrats because they might involve human rights violations of citizens. I know of quite a few myself and a look at the decisions on the Human Rights Tribunal website make it clear that human rights are not taken as seriously as they should be in this province as they were in the past, as Mr. Coleman is alleged by Mr. Morrison (no wallflower) provided a clear example to his constituents and every other citizen in the province. And Mr. Paul and many of the marginalized citizens like him are citizens, as are the rest of us, which our elected officials don't seem to be aware of anymore. And the Ken Dobell's of the world don't get that either. The day a judge sitting on the bench in BC remarks that a violation of the law is trivial, especially when influence peddling was also a part of the allegations, is the day justice is dead in BC.
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Former Commissioner frustrated in Paul case
Mar, 12 2008 - 10:30 PM
VANCOUVER/CKNW(AM980) - A former Police Complaints Commissioner says his request for an Inquest into the 1998 death of Frank Paul, a native man, was rejected by the BC Government and he didn't think a public hearing would be an effective option.
Don Morrison says an Inquest was the best way to go because he didn't believe that the two Vancouver Police officers who ended up being disciplined for their roles in the homeless man's death, would agree to testify at an informal public hearing, "I felt that if there would be an Inquest, the evidence of the officers could be tested under cross-examination. I agree it's not to determine fault, but out of that, possibly, truth."
Morrison says then Solicitor-General Rich Coleman said no to an Inquest because he was worried that would raise issues of racial discrimination.
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Dobell gets absolute discharge for lobbying violations
Last Updated: Thursday, March 13, 2008 2:36 PM ET
CBC News
Ken Dobell has been given an absolute discharge in a court case stemming from lobbying work the former deputy minister did for the city of Vancouver.
The former deputy minister to the premier had pleaded guilty of violating the Lobbyist Registration Act, but Judge Joe Galatti said Dobell's violation of the act was trivial.
"I'm very pleased that the judge reached the conclusion that he reached. It's very important to me. I did not want to end my career with a conviction in a related kind of area," said Dobell after the verdict was announced on Thursday morning in Vancouver.
Dobell had already agreed to refund nearly $7,000 in fees he collected for his work on a downtown Eastside housing project, which included lobbying the provincial government for funding.
The former senior adviser to Premier Gordon Campbell decided to plead guilty after a special prosecutor determined he failed to register as a lobbyist within 10 days as required by the provincial Lobbyists Act.
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