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NDP MLA Jinny Sims resigned as Minister of Citizens’ Services on Friday following the appointment of a special prosecutor for an RCMP investigation related to her.

In an email, Dan McLaughlin, communications counsel for the Ministry of Attorney General’s B.C. Prosecution Service, confirmed that Richard Peck, a senior lawyer in private practice in Vancouver, will provide legal advice in the investigation of criminal wrongdoing involving Sims and others. No other information is available, said McLaughlin.

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Premier John Horgan said in a brief emailed statement that Attorney General David Eby advised him on Friday afternoon that a special prosecutor had been appointed.

“I accepted her resignation as appropriate under the circumstances. We take any such investigation very seriously,” Horgan said in a statement.

Housing Minister Selina Robinson will assume responsibility as minister of citizens’ services until the investigation is over.