The Merritt- area Conservative Member of Parliament says it’s been all consultations and no concrete action from the federal government over money laundering in British Columbia.

Dan Albas says B.C. Attorney General David Eby has made it clear that despite repeated promises, the Feds have not deployed any new resources to tackle the money laundering problem in the province.

“In the last budget in 2019, it was announced that $65-million will go towards fighting money laundering. They promised $10-million last June,” he said.

“Here we are the [Federal Finance] Minister [Bill Morneau] has come and done another consultation but at the same time, he’s not taken action on old promises.”

While on NL Newsday, Albas called on Morneau to not make any new promises to the B.C. government, and instead, he’s imploring him to do what he’ has already promised, noting the B.C. Government can’t be expected to fight these issues on their own.

“You’re spending money on almost everything, but this is a priority,” Albas added. “Everyone is safer when we are putting criminals away, and letting people know that this is not appropriate in B.C.”

He noted it’s imperative that the issues around money laundering is ‘shut off’ soon.

“That takes not just money, it also needs boots on the ground. That’s what’s David Eby has been asking for. Hey, I love it when a minister wants to listen to British Columbians, but the one British Columbian – if he’s not going to listen to me, quite honestly, he should listen to David Eby on this and the provincial government,” Albas said.

“They know what the challenges are, they know what is needed.”

Speaking to NL News, Eby said it’s astounding that the RCMP illegal gaming unit was disbanded by the previous Liberal government after a report surfaced alleging organized crime was running rampant in casinos.

The government will be holding a public inquiry into money laundering, which will start on Feb. 24.