Gary Mason should dust off his notes from the BC Rail affair which is when BC's lobbying industry was exposed in detail; though not by the national media which scrupulously avoided investigating all that came to light in the pre-trial hearings of the Basi-Virk case and before..... corrupt lobbyists including a prone-to-sue one who sues if his name is mentioned as collecting lobbying payments from BC Rail, CN *and* the province all at once, completely illegally.... his misreporting of the Basi-Virk trial evaded any such investigation

in general the national media has played the role of suppressor, not investigator.... including investigations of payback for donations such as the 'gift' of the Fast Ferries to the Washington Group of Seattle likewise the Southern Railway, and how it was that Enron/Anderson Consulting came to own the management end of BC Hydro, ... more could be said if not for the G&M's limits on posting lenth

Took you a long time for you to smell the coffee Mr Mason