Laura's request to the Executive Assistant, Jason Kuzminski, was to fax her "the regulations which state that if a British Columbia Crown Corporation makes a policy change which will affect the British Columbia public, that it is required to make that policy public." Mr. Kuzminski assured Laura that he would find out.

Instead, without Laura's permission or knowledge, Mr. Kuzminski went about "finding out" that she had an appeal in progress at ICBC pertaining to our documented ICBC, BC's Sponsorship Scandal?. Mr. Kuzminski refused to provide Laura with the requested information unless she agreed to tell him what she wanted it for. This she refused to do.

The matter has been referred to the Attorney General for his response. By publishing the contents of the ICBC letter in his response to Laura, Mr. Kuzminski may have further implicated Laura's right to a fair appeal process, since now, her situation presumably, also resides in Laura's file with the Attorney General.

Laura has been unable to receive the requested information from the Administrative and Constitutional section of the Attorney General's office, which refered her request, "the regulations which state that if a British Columbia Crown Corporation makes a policy change which will affect the British Columbia public, that it is required to make that policy public." to R.G.W. Lapper, the Assistant Deputy Attorney General, whose reply was, "I am not aware of any such document" ( The Assistant Deputy does not know fundamental principles that govern law? Perhaps he should have checked with the Administrative and Constitutional section in the Ministry then too??).

In effect, the answer to Laura's request has now been witheld from Laura and J. Kuzminski's letter may have impeded her right to information of a general nature. It is possible that the answer would implicate the provincial government's management of its Crown corporation, ICBC, of wrong-doing. However, this is not a good enough excuse for R.G.W Lapper's reply "to consider contacting a lawyer in private practice". The public has a right to know the laws and legislation which govern the Province.

A complaint letter and request for an investigation pertaining to J. Kuzminski's conduct addressed to the Honorable Geoff Plant, Attorney General, was received by the Attorney General Ministry on February 20, 2004. To date, the Minister has not responded. The matter was then turned over to Catherine Tulley, Director, Information and Privacy at the Attorney General Ministry at the request of the Office Of The Information and Privacy Commissioner. Ms. Tulley's verbal reply on April 5, 2004 was that she will " send a letter" which to date has not arrived.

We invite members of the public to contact the Attorney General, The Honorable Geoff Plant, directly at attorney.general@ag.gov.bc.ca, or better yet, by fax: 250-356-5111 and ask for: "the regulations which state that if a British Columbia Crown Corporation changes a law or policy which will affect the British Columbia public, that it is required to make that policy public."

Set a Vancouver world record - not one person to date has been provided the information!

and to Join us in our protest of ICBC's unlawful conduct toward the BC public.