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The much-anticipated report into money laundering in B.C. casinos released Wednesday turned out to be a political whitewash.

The police didn’t do their job, the government’s gaming and policy-enforcement branch didn’t do its job, the B.C. Lottery Corp. didn’t do its job, government officials and politicians didn’t do their job.

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But no one is being named or blamed.

“This is not a fault-finding report,” said author Peter German. “We’re looking forward … I attribute it to a system breakdown.”

Quelle surprise from the man who watched this scandal develop while he served as the RCMP deputy commissioner for western and northern Canada.

Attorney General David Eby took the same let-bygones-be-bygones approach: “The responsibility lies with the (Liberal) government and the government has been removed.”

Balderdash — these were well-paid civil servants, Crown-corporation managers, senior police officers, as well as politicians, and they should all be called on the mat for what is charitably called “wilful blindness.”