VICTORIA — From the outset, Attorney-General David Eby recognized that a public inquiry into criminal money-laundering in B .C. would need the full cooperation of the federal government.
Canada’s central clearing house for suspicious financial transactions is Fintrac, a federal agency. Also federal: the RCMP, its prosecution service, the port authorities, the banking regulators and the Canada Border Services Agency.
“They’ve gone from being nearly useless to obstructive,” he told Simi Sara on CKNW radio on Friday. “They’re actually protecting the information they’ve collected in British Columbia about what’s happening in our province and they’re not providing it to the public inquiry into money laundering. They’re the anti-money-laundering agency! They’re the only people who do this. And it just drives me crazy.”
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