B.C. legislature speaker Darryl Plecas has rejected the findings of former chief justice Beverley McLachlin on financial activities by senior staff and resumed his own investigation, including seizing computer drives, B.C. Liberal house leader Mary Polak says.
Polak described a three-hour meeting with Plecas, NDP MLA Gary Begg and B.C. Green house leader Sonia Furstenau Wednesday night, at which she said Plecas was pounding on the table and accusing legislature security officers of corruption.
B.C. Liberal leader Andrew Wilkinson said after seeing Plecas and his assistant Alan Mullen removing a computer from a security office late Wednesday evening, and hearing of his accusations about legislature security officers, Wilkinson tried to meet with Premier John Horgan Thursday morning to offer an MLA to replace Plecas.
#BCLiberals @Wilkinson4BC and @maryforbc release notes they say show @BCLegSpeaker needs to be replaced #Bcleg pic.twitter.com/cFO02lFDRd
— Tom Fletcher (@tomfletcherbc) May 30, 2019
Horgan rejected that idea, telling reporters Thursday afternoon that Plecas is speaker for as long as he wants to be.
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