Olympic ticket use hidden by B.C. government: NDP

The B.C. government is being accused of hiding how much it spent on Olympic tickets.

NDP leader Carole James says the Liberals have not honoured a promise to reveal who used the tickets and why, including tickets bought by Crown corporations.

Olympics Minister Mary McNeil says a full accounting of government use of Olympic tickets will be released in a couple of weeks and some of the details of how Crown corporations used the tickets are already on their web sites.

James says a freedom of information request to Hydro came back with page after page blanked out.

She's demanding the Liberals release all details of who used government-purchased tickets and for which events, and that Crown corporations be forced to do the same.

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  Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games mascots Quatchi, left, and Miga hold mock ups of what the Olympic tickets will look like following a news conference in Vancouver, B.C., on Thursday June 4, 2009. VANOC will release the final 150,000 available tickets for sale to the public June 6. (CP/Darryl Dyck)