Former gaming minister says she wasn't told directly about dirty cash flowing to casinos

The interim leader of the B.C. Liberal party told a provincial inquiry on Thursday that the issue of money laundering in casinos was an “important priority” for the province while she was in charge of gaming, but not the only priority.

Shirley Bond said the government in 2011 was also preoccupied with gang activity, gun violence and civil forfeiture cases during her time as solicitor general and minister of public safety under then-premier Christy Clark. 

“[Money laundering] was one of many priorities,” Bond told the Cullen