Dozens of recommendations from a landmark 2022 report on money laundering in British Columbia remain incomplete, an IJF analysis has found, including what observers describe as key proposals to crack down on financial crime. 

B.C. Supreme Court Justice Austin Cullen’s Commission of Inquiry into Money Laundering in British Columbia concluded that “an enormous volume” — likely billions of dollars — of dirty money was being laundered through the province’s economy every year, much of it stemming from drug dealing, fraud and other “crime that destroys communities.”