Premier Clark ready to ‘put a fork’ in B.C. Rail conflict allegations

VANCOUVER – Premier Christy Clark says she’s ready to “put a fork” in any allegations that she was involved in the provincial government’s controversial sale of BC Rail.

Clark says she’ll co-operate fully with B.C. Conflict of Interest Commissioner Paul Fraser if he launches an investigation into her connection to the privatization of the former Crown-owned agency.

The premier says she’s glad the issue has been put before Fraser because she wants to finally settle questions that have been dogging her nine years after it first arose.

Independent MLA John van Dongen requested the probe this week after compiling vast documentation around the sale of the railway.

He wants the commissioner to examine Clark’s actions in the summer and fall of 2003, the same time the Liberal government announced the sale.

Clark, who was the education minister and deputy premier during the sale, told reporters she believes that supposition and rumours still circulating only serve to undermine public confidence.