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By Michael Reeve

Honcharuk report

About face: Kamloops mayor now plans to fight B.C. attorney general over leaked Integrity Group report

Feb 6, 2025 | 5:30 PM

KAMLOOPS — Both sides of an unusual lawsuit were in Kamloops on Thursday (Feb. 6), as British Columbia Attorney General Niki Sharma was in town, along with Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson. The AG has petitioned the Supreme Court of British Columbia for the mayor to return a leaked copy of the Integrity Group report, sometimes referred to as the Honcharuk Report, after he shared it with members of the media last year.

While the attorney general declined to speak to specifics of the ongoing case, Kamloops’ mayor has signaled a drastic change in direction, telling CFJC News he now plans to fight the petition.

“Right now, that’s what I’m thinking because it looks to me (like) it’s not the attorney general’s office that is initiating this. It’s been initiated by the City of Kamloops,” Hamer-Jackson stated. “And I have got two affidavits, which is all public information, from the [human resources] director (Colleen) Quigley, and from our privacy commissioner Stephanie Nichols. And it looks very clear that they didn’t care too much about 2023, when this was originally leaked.”

That is the crux of the mayor’s argument into keeping the report, speaking extensively to the original leak to Kamloops This Week, well prior to receiving his copy in the mail.

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The attorney general confirmed that her office was contacted as a last resort to retrieve the report.

“The ministry filed that in court to make sure that privacy laws are upheld. It’s my job and our job as a ministry across this province to ensure that those people can expect that their privacy is upheld. And if there are breaches and all the steps taken to eliminate that breach have been exhausted, then court action is the last resort,” said Sharma.

Hamer-Jackson confirmed the city had requested the document back before the petition was filed.

The case versus the attorney general is just one of many outstanding legal issues for Hamer-Jackson currently, who is also in between lawyers.