BC Rail Saga, Gordon Campbell`s Shame

I hadn`t planned writing anymore on BC Rail at this time but I think we need to do an overview and highlight a couple of things that haven`t been explained to our satisfaction.

Before we get rolling, Gordon Campbell, over the last decade we have learned that he is an habitual liar, BC Rail, the HEU contract, the HST, he`s lied about deficits, he wrote no deficits laws only to break them forcing him to bring forth new laws that forgive the laws he broke, Campbell drove drunk in Maui, he`s been having an adulterous affair with Lara for years, Lara travels everywhere the premier goes, she`s on the public payrole and works directly with Campbell, Gordon`s marriage is but a sham, a cardboard wife and cereal box family, the point I am making is...

Gordon Campbell has no moral fiber, he`s a shallow man, ethics and honour mean nothing to him, we did not know that in 2001...But today we know in SPADES about ethics, or in this case, a total lack of any morals or ethics, and it`s important to remember that.

Gordon Campbell in the 2001 election promised not to sell BC Rail and did, the tangled web of lies that follow all stem from Campbell lying his face off.

In 1996, David Maclean, the head of CN Rail was the main money man in Campbell`s 1996 run for power, in that election Campbell said he was going to sell BC Rail, .....David Maclean wanted BC Rail,  David Maclean financed that campaign....Campbell lost that election.

2001, David Maclean(The head of CN Rail) is still with Campbell, Maclean is banking Campbell`s 2001 election campaign, David Maclean still wants BC Rail,  Patrick Kinsella is Campbell`s actual campaign manager in 2001...Campbell campaigns on not selling BC Rail...Campbell wins the election in a land slide.

So we now have a man with no moral fiber or honour in charge of the Province, BC Rail  in actuality is already gone, the mechanisms for disposing of the public`s asset is already turning, David Maclean is aware that BC Rail is coming his way.....Patrick Kinsella is rewarded with employment from CN Rail, Campbell rewards Kinsella as well by arranging a lucrative gig at BC Rail doing a core review for years, Kinsella working for CN Rail and BC Rail at the same time is not only a conflict of interest but highly unethical(Remember the start of this post)....Kinsella was rewarded with money from the commons.

Let`s go to the BC Legislature, Campbell and the Liberals after the 2001 election start beating the drum, day after day they beat the drum on how BC Rail has too much debt, no profit, a huge liability, all three of those assertions have been proven wrong, all was a stage play designed to placate the public, the bottom line was....David Maclean and CN Rail were going to get BC Rail, ....The Liberals beat the drum, 77 Liberals against 2 opposition members, 2 members that the media ignored and ridiculed, so not only did Campbell proceed to break his promise but he also deliberately devalued the worth of BC Rail! .....

Instead of talking up BC Rail and selling it, on mass they ridiculed BC Rail in the legislature, the debt, operating expenses, mis-management....It makes you wonder why Campbell kept the BC Rail executives on the payrole for years and years even after they had no trains and but a few miles of track, considering how(according to Campbell) they ran BC Rail into the ground and lost money year after year?..Yet they were kept on for years and years....More on that aspect a little further down..

Let`s do a quick review, the machinery is already in place to sell BC Rail, the fix is in, friends of the premier are cashing in, David Maclean, Patrick Kinsella, within the small confines of the BC Liberal cabinet BC Rail is all but gone, it was no secret in cabinet that BC Rail will be sold,  the lies and web weaving begin, ....Paul Nettleton speaks up, rings the alarm bell and is so disgusted that he leaves the Liberals, the PAB set out to discredit Nettleton.

Campbell breaks the news to the public that BC Rail will be leased for 990 years, hogwash, that`s a sale...There had to be a bidding process on BC Rail to give the appearance to the public that we were getting the best value possible for BC Rail.....But the bid process was tainted, I am actually surprised that CP Rail and OMNI trax  even bothered bidding, they knew that David Maclean had given a small fortune to elect Campbell in 1996 and 2001, in the back of their minds they had to be able to put two and two together that  CN Rail`s acquisition of BC Rail was a done deal.

Remember folks, Basi/Virk/Bruce Clark, Eric Bornman/Brian Kieran/Peter Armstrong/....Rocky mountain tours, Washington marine group...All the twists and turns of bribes, rigged bids, everything that transpired was a result of Gordon Campbell lying to each and everyone of us and selling BC Rail...All the lies, the court case, the $10s of millions on legal fees, it all started with Gordon Campbell lying in 2001.

"What a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive"

What we have are lies layered upon lies, one lie leads to another lie and it grows and grows until it can`t be contained.

The Basi/Virk BC Rail Corruption Trial ....The raid on the Legislature all started with a drug investigation connected with Aneal Basi, drugs, grow-ops, money laundering, it was only after wire taps investigating into drug related issues did it come back to the legislature, this led investigators to  Basi/Virk, the wire taps revealed {talks}] about bribes for information on BC Rail bids, ......The headline immediately after the raid on the Legislature was .......{Organized crime has infiltrated the highest offices in the Province}

So they raid the BC Legislature, remember folks, it all started as a drug investigation, but, there were many search warrants, Pilot house was searched, Bruce Clark`s home and his bank accounts were searched, and as you know from the release of warrants on Monday that at Bruce Clark`s home they found confidential information on the BC Rail Port Subdivision....No charges were laid against Bruce Clark, and according to Eric Bornman, he had been bribing David Basi for years, it was also revealed in the warrants that Basi/Virk/Bornman/Kieran and Bruce Clark were in talks as early as 2001 about joining together and forming a communication/lobbying company....And that is very believable because, Bruce Clark, Patrick Kinsella and Eric Bornman were already connected and on the board of directors of this company

So the Bruce Clark, Patrick Kinsella, Eric Bornman connection is made again early in the 2000s.....Coincidence? I don`t think so..

Let`s stop here.....Something was bothering me and last night it dawned on me what it was.....The search warrant for Bruce Clark`s home, Bruce Clark wasn`t charged with anything but he had top secret information at his home, stuff he had no right to have in his possession, but he wasn`t charged???

What was on the search warrant, what were they looking for, they searched Bruce Clark`s home and bank accounts, there had to be a cause on the actual warrant, for a judge to grant a search warrant he/she must be given compelling evidence of what they are looking for...What was the cause of action on the search warrant, it can`t be the BC Rail Port subdivision or they would have charged him...Were the police looking for cocaine, marijuanna, money, the police had to be specific and the warrant had to suggest more than the BC Rail Port Subdivision information,.... because believe me...The police weren`t looking in Bruce Clark`s bank account for the BC  Rail Port Subdivision data....So what were the police searching for at Christy Clark`s brother`s home?

 That my friends is a very important question, the information would be on the warrant, and or the police themselves would know, someone needs to ask.

Full stop here....Remember, all of the above, the dirty players, the layer upon layer of lies all stems from Gordon Campbell lying and giving BC Rail away to his financing friend David Maclean.

The document dump on Monday also reveals that Basi was taking bribes for years, years and years of Basi taking bribes, Basi was dirty, Virk was dirty, Aneal Basi was a drug dealer and money launderer, all three were dirty before BC Rail, .....The reason I bring this up is because some allege that Basi and Virk were nothing but fall guys for the BC Government....Hogwash, they were dirty for years prior to BC Rail, and....And I have no doubt that Collins, Reid and others in the Campbell Government knew that Basi/Virk were dirty and it is even possible that Basi and Virk were persuaded by their bosses to ask for bribes from the other bidders in an attempt to keep the rigged bid game alive.....It may have went down that way, but let`s be crystal clear, Basi and Virk were dirty well before the BC Rail saga even started, I have yet to see direct evidence saying that Basi and Virk were ordered to ask for bribes and play the game...

Like I said earlier on, CP Rail, Omnitrax had to had to know the fix was in anyway.

And there is no doubt the plea agreement that ended the trial was done to keep the Government from a huge embarrassment over the fact  the fix was in from the moment Gordon Campbell took office in 2001....Remember the start of this post, Campbell has no moral fiber or ethics, the fix was in already, everyone surrounding Gordon Campbell was rewarded for playing along and remaining silent while the theft of BC Rail took place.

None of this whole convoluted story would have ever happened if Campbell didn`t lie and sell BC Rail, the mock trial, the layers of lies, the bribes, the intertwined connections who all fed from the trough, everything goes back to Gordon Campbell.....Were Basi and Virk prodded to ask for bribes in BC Rail bidding process, perhaps, but only because those two were taking bribes on everything else for years and years.

Let`s recap, Campbell wins the 2001 election, David Maclean knows his reward is coming(a free BC Railway)...Patrick Kinsella was rewarded with a profitable gig at CN Rail and BC Rail at the same time...Bruce Clark got rewards for the Washington Marine Group, Clark had confidential inside information, Basi and Virk were rewarding themselves for years...Peter Armstrong, friend of Campbell and one time employer of Campbell`s son was rewarded in the BC Rail deal, everyone who left the Campbell Government in that first term have been rewarded for silence, ....The BC Rail executives were rewarded for years along with a golden handshake for their silence on the going`s on at BC Rail....Even BC Rail executives had no idea why Patrick Kinsella was on the payrole...

And friends of the Premier were rewarded for their silence every step of the way, all the real estate holding`s of BC Rail sold or acquired for pocket change by BC Liberal insiders....

And then there was a failure of the BC Supreme court, for the price of about $30 million dollars for the Province`s prosecution legal fees, the court was overwhelmed with motions, procedure, disclosures, delays, stalls, from the BC Court to the supreme court of Canada, a shell game of stalls, lies, defend, deny, shred, a compliant court that let the charade go on for years spinning its wheels......And throughout this fiasco, this National embarrassment the BC Liberal government, the MLAs, Cabinet, they all hung together and kept their mouth shut, everyone knew the story, the meetings on Savory Island, Patrick Kinsella, Peter Armstrong, everyone was getting their piece of the action, Washington Marine Group got waterfront land and docks in the North Shore, they got the Fast Ferriers for free, Bruce Clark got his rewards......And all through this scandal, the BC Public was played like a piano, we paid for a corrupted court, a tainted trial that neither started or finished, we got hosed by BC Rail executives, by Basi/Virk, Patrick Kinsella hosed us, David Maclean screwed us, Collins, Reid and every BC Liberal screwed us...The lawyers, the system, the prosecutors, the entirety of everything was a scam from the git go......

And none of it would have happened without Gordon Campbell lying in 2001 and giving BC Rail away to his friend David Maclean....Everything in between, the tentacles, the intertwined ivy, all the connected  dots, the layers of lies, the cost to the taxpayer, the sting, the big ruse, Shakespeare would be proud of the extent and layering of  lies.

 And the final insult to the BC Public was Mike De Jong making sad excuses for paying Basi and Virk`s legal fees, ending the trial and claiming there is nothing more to find out, that folks is the icing on the cake, the straw that broke Gordon Campbell`s Government`s back, ....Christy Clark has direct knowledge of BC Rail sham, Bruce Clark is dirty up to his eyeballs, as is Basi/Virk/Pilothouse...Patrick Kinsella is dirty, David Maclean is dirty...The silent BC Liberals are dirty. And yes, there are dozens more who played the game and remained silent...

"The Silence has become deafening"

But....It all starts and ends with Gordon Campbell`s deliberate 2001 lie and betrayal, everything in between was a bunch of BC Liberal rats feeding at the trough, the most corrupt, dirty, tainted Government in Canada...That is this Powell River Persuader`s opinion on the BC Rail Saga.

The Straight Goods

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