The Basi-Virk case heard another shocking allegation Thursday: Cabinet e-mails sought by defence lawyers for the past two years may have been ordered destroyed as recently as May this year.
The trial judge, B.C. Supreme Court Justice Elizabeth Bennett, was told the e-mails, stored on backup tapes, were sent to a company called EDS Advanced Solutions, which was told in May to no longer retain the data.
That information was contained in a new affidavit by Rosemarie Hayes, manager of the government's information technology services.
Defence lawyer Kevin McCullough asked the judge to make an order as soon as possible for the government to produce any e-mails that may still exist.
The judge said she will make a ruling next Monday on the relevance of the e-mails, if they exist.
Last month, government lawyer George Copley filed two affidavits that said the e-mails being sought might already have been destroyed, including an affidavit from Hayes that said e-mails were on backup tapes that cannot be retrieved after 13 months.
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Source: vancouversun.com
By Neal Hall and Jonathan Fowlie
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