Premier Clark to contact B.C. conflict czar over director job allegation

VICTORIA – Premier Christy Clark says she will ask conflict of interest commissioner Paul Fraser for an opinion about her former role as a director for a company with strong ties to British Columbia’s Liberals and the federal conservatives.

Clark was listed as a director of RCI Pacific Gateway Education Inc., a subsidiary of Vancouver-based investment firm RCI Capital Group, which focuses on energy resources and Asia-Pacific markets.

Clark says she signed on as an honorary director at RCI Pacific Gateway in 2007, but as far as she knows her directorship ended that same year, when she took a private-sector job to work at a Vancouver radio station.

Clark says she never received any money from the company and never attended any meetings.

B.C. company registry records say RCI Pacific Gateway was dissolved in May 2011 for failure to provide company files to the registry.

Opposition New Democrat Leader Adrian Dix says Clark did not disclose her close relationship with the company, which included company directors accompanying the premier on trade missions to Asia.

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