Yes I find it quite odd, at best, why it is always foreign media that uncovers these things and reports on them and then all of a sudden a columnist here or there mentions it and maybe a reporter or two is dispatched, but never uncovered nor reported first by Canadian media. Curious that.
In this case the NYTimes and another a one recent ongoing case, the truth about the housing situation from the South China Morning Post, Ian Young which provoked the GM to get on it with their fine exposure of the situation.
When I found about this, son of what? BC, Wild West For Sure. Below originally published by NYTimes.com
'The son of the province’s Conflict of Interest Commissioner is a good friend of the Premier and a deputy in her government. This unusual situation is at the heart of a court application launched by Democracy Watch, a national civic-affairs organization based in Ottawa.'