"For transparency watchdogs and lawyers expert on transnational crime, their resounding answer is to call a public commission of inquiry modelled after Quebec’s — where a string of media exposés and scandals uncovered corruption in the province’s influential construction industry.

By the end of the commission’s explosive hearings, several high-ranking Quebec politicians had resigned or been forced from office, and powerful business figures were implicated in criminal activities far more broad than one industry or level of government.

Christine Duhaime, a Vancouver- and Toronto-based lawyer who is one of Canada’s experts on transnational money laundering, has urged B.C. down such an inquiry’s path, saying it would offer a full fact-finding opportunity in public view — with nothing left off the table.

It’s what she called “a cleansing in public, with sworn evidence” aimed at ultimately restoring “public confidence for investment” in B.C.’s real estate, gaming, regulatory and other sectors." ~ David P. Ball - Star Metro Vancouver

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