Mr. Speaker, that is very interesting. He has been a representative of the justice department since 1986. This was his first case prosecuting drugs. Formerly he had prosecuted fishery problems. There is a difference.
Due to the interference of the revenue minister, a firm of 20 years' experience, MacDonald McNeely, that would have been handling the case, was let go. In spite of concerns expressed by myself in the House to the justice minister, concerns expressed by the RCMP in public and to the justice department and even the newly appointed prosecutor himself, the justice department still let him go ahead with the prosecution and he blew it.
I ask again, will the minister do the right thing. Will he get rid of the revenue minister's appointments and give the people of B.C. what they deserve, a properly run justice system free from patronage?