The Kamloops-North MLA is seeking assurance that BCLC will keep executives in the Tournament Capital as it recruits new senior staff.

Peter Milobar and Kamloops-South MLA Todd Stone wrote a joint letter to Attorney General Dave Eby to seek clarity and confirmation on the matter.

Milobar says the letter comes after a $100-million-dollar upgrade planned for the BCLC haedquarters in Kamloops was scrapped back in January.

“Minister Eby had committed only a few months earlier, in fact on my direct question, that everything was a go for the Kamloops new build, and then a few months later the rug was pulled out from under us. When it was, Minister Eby assured us that we would still be at the full complement like what we saw then,” he says.

“This letter is simply trying to get him to clarify and confirm that indeed those senior management positions will be replaced within the Kamloops office, and the expectation will be that people will be living in the Kamloops and surrounding areas and working the majority of their time in the Kamloops office.”

Milobar says a headquarters is only truly a headquarters if its senior management team works out of it.