B.C. to study changing special prosecutor system — after COVID\u002D19 pandemic
Attorney General David Eby said preliminary work by his staff found the RCMP unit assigned to investigate cases overseen by special prosecutors is the same short-staffed and overworked unit that handles money-laundering.
One way to address the shortcomings might be for B.C. to give dedicated funding to the RCMP unit and earmark it for politically-sensitive special prosecutor cases, said Eby. And the province won’t make any changes until it gets support from other political parties to investigate the issue in a united and non-partisan manner, he said.
But most cases take years to conclude, during which police and the special prosecutor refuse to give information on allegations or updates on timelines. Because the cases often involve politicians or staff, political parties use the information vacuum to accuse each other of vast corruption even if the specific allegations are later determined to be unfounded.Article content continued
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