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Four years of B.C. cabinet e-mails erased

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Four years of B.C. cabinet e-mails erased


Provincial Politics | 206731 hits | Jun 23 4:32 pm | Posted by: ridenrain
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The provincial government may have destroyed all cabinet e-mails between 2001 and 2005, opening a huge gap in the official record despite a law that electronic files must be kept for at least seven years, the Supreme Court of British Columbia has learned.

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  1. by avatar RUEZ
    Wed Jun 24, 2009 12:36 am
    Hmm, wonder why this doesn't make the top three?

  2. by avatar Brenda
    Wed Jun 24, 2009 1:07 am
    I take it they don't keep a carbon copy? Smart... :roll:

  3. by avatar Zipperfish  Gold Member
    Wed Jun 24, 2009 1:10 am
    Something tells me that this time around is going to be a bit rougher a ride for Gordo and the Gang. The NDP can hammer away at this and it should just get tiresome right when teh new 2.4 cents/L gas tax comes in on July 1.

  4. by avatar RUEZ
    Wed Jun 24, 2009 1:10 am
    "Brenda" said
    I take it they don't keep a carbon copy? Smart... :roll:

    There's a law that says these documents must be kept for seven years. I wonder how much more Liberal corruption we're going to put up with in BC? Why can't we get a government in BC that isn't corrupt? It's the same no matter what party we vote for.

  5. by avatar herbie
    Wed Jun 24, 2009 2:18 am
    This was not corruption, it was a proper decision.
    Four years worth of old e-mails would have required tens of thousands of floppy disks to store them on. As no one oculd supply that volume of floppy disks now that they are obsolete, the decision was made to destroy the e-mails and save tax payers hundreds of thousands of dollars.
    It was another fiscally prudent BC Liberal decision.
    The public need not worry about his happening again as all the 'new' e-mails are CD and DVD compatible.

  6. by avatar RUEZ
    Wed Jun 24, 2009 2:23 am
    "herbie" said
    This was not corruption, it was a proper decision.
    Four years worth of old e-mails would have required tens of thousands of floppy disks to store them on. As no one oculd supply that volume of floppy disks now that they are obsolete, the decision was made to destroy the e-mails and save tax payers hundreds of thousands of dollars.
    It was another fiscally prudent BC Liberal decision.
    The public need not worry about his happening again as all the 'new' e-mails are CD and DVD compatible.

    I can't tell if you are joking or not. Who backs up with floppies? Even in 2001.

  7. by avatar Scape
    Wed Jun 24, 2009 3:19 am
    R u serious Ruez? We still use !

  8. by avatar RUEZ
    Wed Jun 24, 2009 3:32 am
    "Scape" said
    R u serious Ruez? We still use !

    Who's we? You're not talking about e-mail.

  9. by ridenrain
    Wed Jun 24, 2009 3:40 am
    BC Rail deal? What BC Rail deal?

  10. by avatar DrCaleb
    Wed Jun 24, 2009 3:48 am
    "herbie" said
    This was not corruption, it was a proper decision.
    Four years worth of old e-mails would have required tens of thousands of floppy disks to store them on. As no one oculd supply that volume of floppy disks now that they are obsolete, the decision was made to destroy the e-mails and save tax payers hundreds of thousands of dollars.
    It was another fiscally prudent BC Liberal decision.
    The public need not worry about his happening again as all the 'new' e-mails are CD and DVD compatible.


    You've been following the show^W trial too I take it.

    What a farce. Judge Bennet should preside over the trial of the Mounties who perjered themselves (if!) over tazering Djkanski, and the circle would be complete. I've been suspecting that if convicted (which will never happen) then Basi and Virk will simply appeal based on their often delayed trial, and win a complete acquital. This email bullshit is just another bump along the way.

    It's just amazing, the crap that has gone on in that courtroom.

  11. by ridenrain
    Wed Jun 24, 2009 4:18 am
    .. actually, it was just a timely disclosure to distract away from the Ontario Liberal governments problems.
    seriously.. it would be nice to have an opposition that wasn't bug-nuts crazy. Can someone in the NDP please remove Carol and come up with something that isn't another 5 year plan of class war?

  12. by avatar Zipperfish  Gold Member
    Wed Jun 24, 2009 6:33 am
    "DrCaleb" said
    This was not corruption, it was a proper decision.
    Four years worth of old e-mails would have required tens of thousands of floppy disks to store them on. As no one oculd supply that volume of floppy disks now that they are obsolete, the decision was made to destroy the e-mails and save tax payers hundreds of thousands of dollars.
    It was another fiscally prudent BC Liberal decision.
    The public need not worry about his happening again as all the 'new' e-mails are CD and DVD compatible.


    You've been following the show^W trial too I take it.

    What a farce. Judge Bennet should preside over the trial of the Mounties who perjered themselves (if!) over tazering Djkanski, and the circle would be complete. I've been suspecting that if convicted (which will never happen) then Basi and Virk will simply appeal based on their often delayed trial, and win a complete acquital. This email bullshit is just another bump along the way.

    It's just amazing, the crap that has gone on in that courtroom.

    Know what I find more amazing? Nobody cares. I mean you gotta give some props to Gordo for that one. The first time ever that the BC Legislature was ever served with a warrant, the stink of corruption and kickbacks at very high levels and...nothing. Poor Glen Clark finagled a deal on his frickin' house deck and had to quit. But Gordo--comes out smellin' like roses. That is a politician.

    I'm not one for dire prognostications, but having watched teh Air India trial, this BC Rail business, teh Reena Virk murder trial, I gotta say that our court system is busted here in BC.



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