“If you are going to allege all of the money or a great majority of the money coming from China is illegitimate, don’t you think it would be incumbent on you to look at whether or not there may be legitimate sources of money particularly if the area is being targeted by enjoying an amazing economic boom?” Butcher asked.
Meilleur didn’t: “In terms of looking at this, my role as a regulator was to address for the minister and for the government at large, public interest policy, and what I saw … was the source of that cash was of concern in the way it was being delivered and where it was being obtained from and the clientele were of a certain ethnic group … an Asian clientele.”
“And when you take that approach,” Butcher said, “you are doing exactly what Dr. Yu suggested was wrong — you are introducing racialized opinions with respect to the source of money without examining whether there are other explanations for the source of money. Do you accept that?”
“I do not accept that,” Meilleur asserted. “Racial motivation had nothing to do with this. It was always about the integrity of gaming. It remains about the integrity of gaming. This was a huge public interest policy issue, the government had to address it and BCLC had to address it.”
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