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On Monday, as promised, B.C.’s Speaker for the legislative assembly Darryl Plecas produced a report concerning allegations of misconduct by senior officers of the B.C. legislative assembly (Clerk Craig James and Sergeant-at-Arms Gary Lenz) that was subsequently released by the legislative assembly Management Committee.

Plecas had previously warned that the contents of the report would outrage the public and “make them throw up.” If they didn’t, Plecas — who took the post on Sept. 8, 2017 — said he would resign as Speaker. None of the allegations in the 76-page report are criminal in nature.

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Postmedia News has gone through the report and highlighted some of the more disturbing claims.

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• The booze: Plecas wrote that early in his term he noticed the Speaker had a cabinet in their office and some outside that were full of government-supplied liquor. “It had been my previous experience that the government does not pay for alcohol for staff or members’ personal consumption, so this was surprising to me,” Plecas wrote. He stated that eight months after Plecas became Speaker, Lenz told him that in 2013 James had ordered legislative staff to load $10,000 worth of alcohol paid for by the legislative assembly onto his truck. The alcohol was apparently left over from a conference or event that the clerk hosted and was placed in a basement vault from which it was later loaded into the truck. Plecas wants this claim investigated.