Sunday, July 27, 2008

BC Auction house is for government use only, however.....

In my reading of various columnist writings of the PWC audit that was commissioned by the Board of Directors for ICBC on "repair-a-wreck-and-make-a-fortune", there's one part of the story that seems just beyond the horizon. Iain Black is the Minister responsible for Labour and Citizen Services, which includes BC Auction, who so far has failed to step and into the news media spotlight to explain what role it played out in the ICBC scandal as the designated auctioneer. The story so far, is that an "auction" house accepted $100 top-up bids from third parties that guaranteed that the cars being sold, on behalf of ICBC, would be returned to those that conspired to rip consumers off and ICBC.

As much as the BC Liberals promised to crack down on cybercrime, their gesture has been a feeble attempt at the least.

"Minister Iain Black officially opened the new International Cybercrime Research
Centre
located at Simon Fraser University Surrey Centre campus July 8. The
Province has provided $350,000 in grants to help the centre in investigating
online crime trends and developing tools to counter emerging threats. "

Whether its one columnist using the word "auction" or another using the phrase "wholesale auto auction", one thing is obvious, the steps that the BC Liberals took to ensure that BC Auction wouldn't find itself on the front pages of newspaper has been amply done by PWC by their not having mentioned specifically, that BC Auction, was involved and there's the rub.

Any government asset that needs liquidating, must be done in-house by BC Auction, and if the rebuilt wrecks that managers and staff collaberated on together to fool ICBC Board of Directors, and BC Liberal politicians that is what was truly happening, a revenue generator from wrecked cars, then they must be the ones who still believe in the fairy tale stories that geese can lay golden eggs. If the written off wrecks weren't funneled to the outside world in-house via AIR, then how did they make it outside without using an auction house not related to the Government?

BC Auction has had a well documented history of selling off computer tapes and the equipment to read them, along with government computers with VERY sensitive data on them that included health records, personal information, Care Card numbers, addresses, phone numbers, everything that anyone that was interested in knowing in regards to Identity Theft... the BC Government was front and centre.

The ball is in your Court Mr. Black, what have you got to say?

Oh, and by the way, why is there a preferential treatment towards public service employees when it comes to registering with BC Bid?

5 comments:

BC Mary said...

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North Van's Grumps:

Congratulations on a beautifully set up blog! You've created a wonderful addition to the grass-roots efforts to find out and act upon the alarming events unfolding in British Columbia.

I'm looking forward to visiting your site often, to see what you've discovered.

Please don't forget to drop in and post your excellent comments at The Legislature Raids too.

Best wishes!

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BC Mary said...

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Your poll asks: When the BC Legislature trial is complete, who will historians remember?

I think there's a name missing from your list.

Who will historians (if they're good historians) remember for deciding to break his election promise NOT to sell BCRail, then deciding to dump the publicly-owned railway despite huge protests, the man whose government continues to keep the terms of sale secret?

As the trial of Basi, Virk and Basi (the BCRail Case) drags on and on, with little or no concern from the government, we begin to see who would be most pleased to see the whole case thrown out.

Future historian will point fingers of guilt at Gordon Campbell. All the other people named are secondary players in the game of putting B.C.'s public assets into private hands.

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North Van's Grumps said...

It wasn't one BC Liberal that dumped the publicly-owned railway, it was the majority of BC Liberals.

Premier Gordon Campbell, the day after the last election Writ was dropped, arrived in Kelowna via a BC Liberal bus, paid for by the likes of CN Rail and other corporations, to announce that the new bridge over the lake would be named after former Premier Bill Bennett. Problem is, I'll always remember Bill Bennett for saying "British Columbia is not for sale", but he and his Social Credit Party cohorts went right ahead and did it anyway.

In this blog democratic society BC Mary, did you take the time to vote?

Gary E said...

North Van's Grumps

You're a hard person to find. Like Mary I kept getting Borgman's Blog.

Welcome to this side of the world. I know you have a wealth of information, and was wondering when you would start your own blog.

I haven't been through it all yet but will do that tomorrow morning. What a great format.

By the way do Paisley and Sunnycrest ring any bells?

gee no said...

whats going on is all the people of bc want to know msm should be held accountable and the govt should open all the files and let us know what happened to our railway. i think the courts are in contempt of the people of bc along with thier foot soldiers the rcmp