Opinion column warns B.C.'s dirty money problem "hasn't gone away" as investment push begins

With the focus after B.C.'s provincial election on fast-tracking projects, attracting new investment and creating jobs, an opinion piece in the Vancouver Sun argues that dirty money still demands attention.

The column, headlined that the province's dirty money problem "hasn't gone away. It's time to act," describes an "alarming trend" that it says points to a crisis.

At the centre of that crisis, the piece argues, are secret companies, dirty money and the foreign influence behind them. It contends that successive B.C. governments have been too slow to address the problem.

The argument is the author's opinion, not a finding by government or investigators. For Vancouver readers, it arrives just as the province's economic priorities take shape after the election.