It ain't the crime that kills ya...

...it's the cover-up...

The order would have been given during this spring's provincial election, in which questions around Mr. Campbell's involvement in the sale of BC Rail – at the centre of the corruption case – was an issue. Mr. Campbell's Liberal Party easily won the May 12 contest.

The new information would appear to contradict statements made in court last month by government lawyer George Copley, who said that executive branch e-mails from 2001 to 2005 could not be recovered because backup tapes were kept for only 13 months.

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