Article content continued

The jury in the Côté trial didn’t hear that Bush had been convicted in May of three counts of first-degree murder in the 2007 killings of retired tax judge Alban Garon, his wife, Raymonde, and their friend Marie-Claire Beniskos. The seniors were hog-tied, beaten and suffocated with bags over their heads at their high-security condo in a home invasion. Enraged over a bitter tax feud, Bush targeted the retired judge in a plot that included stealing his money. The judge’s wife and friend were killed for being at the wrong place at the wrong time.

Photo by CBC

The CBC’s Off reacted to the news that she had been on one of Bush’s lists.

“It was somewhere between troubled and gobsmacked, um, it’s something that comes with the territory, you know, being a public person, so these things happen,” Off said on Thursday evening’s broadcast of As it Happens.

“But I I suppose, I mean, the first thing when he (reporter Gary Dimmock) sort of gave me more the details and he tried to give it to me the way that I’ll give it to you, which is that the good news is that the good news is that you are, I’m on the long list and not on the short list where he had an action plan for the people on his very short list.

“So I’m on the long list, but I’m number one on the long list, which is the bad news, so … And then he said the really excellent news from, I guess, the point of being on any list, is that the man is going to be doing a lot of time and that it’s unlikely that he will be out in his lifetime.”