In a 40-page opinion released last week, B.C. Conflict of Interest Commissioner Paul Fraser pretty well cleared former Agriculture Minister Pat Pimm of any wrongdoing with respect to his obligations under the Members’ Conflict of Interest Act, despite the odd “tsk, tsk” here and there.
Pimm had requested the opinion following concerns over his alleged interference in a file before the Agricultural Land Commission last year related to a property in Fort St. John.
Ironically, in reading the opinion, it seems as though Fraser conducted his investigation from the perspective that Agricultural Land Commission chair Richard Bullock was the subject of it and not Pimm.
Consider this question posed to Bullock by the Commissioner: “Was all of that general conversation, conversation you thought was part of the conspiracy somehow to come down on you and show his [Pimm’s] influence?”
Dermod Travis – Huffington Post – November 11, 2014
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