Revelations comes amidst release of almost 8,000 pages of documents used in review of memo.
from The Tyee
"Almost $1 million was siphoned from the Ministry of Jobs, Tourism and Innovation to increase the nearly $2.5 million budget for the multiculturalism portfolio a year before the provincial election campaign, according to documents gathered for the in-house review of the BC Liberals' Multicultural Outreach Strategy.
"The outreach strategy was outlined in a 17-page leaked memo that included plans to coordinate party and government resources to 're-engage with ethnic voters' and find 'quick wins' in apologizing for past injustices, such as the Chinese head tax. The leak became known as a 'quick wins' scandal, one that dogged the Liberals throughout the election.
"The final report on the review, led by Premier Christy Clark's deputy minister John Dyble, found that several staffers breached the code of conduct by mixing BC Liberal work with their government jobs. …"
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