Hmmm, I wonder what is going to happen.


Absolutely nothing

You'd have to be a saint, not to look at this latest judge-snatching from the BC Rail Case,

without thinking of political ass-covering.

This very morning, there's an important pre-trial conference going on ... with the prospect of an attempt by Basi, Virk, and/or Basi to seek a Stay of Proceedings.

What a brutal moment to choose, to announce that this judge may be turfed.

I mean, if (as we're informed) the sitting judge is the one who chooses whether or not to depart in the middle of a trial, how does the PMO or the news media know that this new appointment will not affect MacKenzie's duties? It certainly affected the previous Justice Bennett's choice of duties.

Very disquieting, especially when added to the news coming out of Peace River with regard to CN's failure to maintain the BCR line. A deal-breaker, if you ask me. More about that, if interested, at:

http://bctrialofbasi-virk.blogspot.com/

Definite undertones of political machinations.
metalman.

Wow....this one stinks!
Guess what the outcome of the B.C. rail trial is going to be?
If there is no political influence in this one,I'll eat my laundry!
The reality is,this doesn't suprise anyone,does it?

I agree, what's the point of a trial? It seems like everyone has made up their minds no matter what the outcome is.

wink-wink-nod-nod?
The appearances of this alone undermines the credibility of our government and our legal system. When you have a series of these stinky actions all pointing towards wrongdoings and appearing as coverups it becomes impossible to believe our attorney general and his department stand for anything but what suits their political future.

I laugh when I remember newly elected Mike DeJong being forced to publicly admit government had screwed carrier lumber after years and years of trying to destroy it and then got caught covering this up.
He called it "unflattering" and it cost the taxpayors about 75 million dollars to correct what government improperly and illegally did to this one company.

How does this bs happen without the ag office and its legal spin doctors, not to mention the ministry of forests ensuring it happens the way they want it to happen?

Somehow in this province we need an actual independent means of preserving justice for the benefits of the greater good rather than a political regime or their underlings.I don't think it is an ombudsman and apparently our legal system is not far enough removed either.

Governments will never be perfect but when (and not if) they are wrong they must come clean and admit and repair their wrongdoings in a timely and forthrite manner. Without doing that, our entire political/government and legal system is allowing to perpetuate a joke..on us...the taxpayor.

hey foresight... what credibility does our government have?

You can't undermine something that doesn't exist!

Fair enough point cougars fan.

The question is what can or should be done to fix this divide between confidence in government and how governments actually operate. We have been flip flopping from right to left and left to right only to have the same arrogant dictatorships emerge from both political sides.
More often than not our provincal governments lose as a result of eventually being caught for something rather than whether they are a competant government or not.

The reference to the carrier lumber saga is an example of both the political failings and improper and ilegal actions of the ministry of forests being dragged through the courts by the attorney general and provincially paid legal staff, while all knowing that it was wrong from the start.
When such things are finally proven to have occurred it is most alarming to think of the levels to which our governments will go to escape accountability to the law, not to mention proper governance.
All three; the political, the bureaucratic and the legal system had to have had a role in this and yet not one of these elements acted to protect the public interests.

A squeaky clean, independent, non political oversight body must be put into place to ensure to a public confidence level that government operates properly, as it obviously cannot be trusted to do this itself.

If this is not put into place and guarded as our public right as citizens, then democracy and accountability is only at work on voting day and doesn't return until the next voting day. Without an obligation to transparency to the public, voting day is a guess at best of the lesser of two evils.

We as citizens should not be forced to expend vast sums in courts to try to find out if our government is acting appropriately or portrayed as just a couple of rogue employees as it seems in the basi/virk thing.

could this be rewards for a job done?

This is outrageous political influencing of the courts. Gordon Campbell obviously has no respect for the legal system, the rule of law, as well as our democratic process. Its as bad as a 3rd world country at this point.

Get at it before the Liberals conveniently forget what happened.