The MLA for Kamloops North is not buying what the Attorney General is selling as far as the reasoning for scrapping the downtown BC Lottery Corporation headquarters replacement project.

Peter Milobar says his concern remains the leakage of lottery staff from Kamloops to the Lower Mainland noting BCLC’s 80,000-square-foot building, and attached warehouse, on the coast that he says is only half full.

Milobar says the decision to scrap the new headquarters project doesn’t pass the smell test.

“This has the fingerprints of political interference all over it,”  he says.

“They’re saying that business case doesn’t make any sense. How is it that every other capital project in this province that this government is undertaking is able to somehow magically come in on time and on budget, and on scope? And yet suddenly BC Lotteries building after three years planning, at the 11th hour is suddenly double the price, and the contractors get notified 30 minutes before they notify the public.”

Milobar is accusing the province of killing the project in order to reallocate money to Lower Mainland ridings to protect seats it needs.