Former cop's political career now in tatters with no guarantee of a return to the cabinet

By Doug Ward, Vancouver Sun

When Kash Heed was selected to be the Liberal candidate for Vancouver-Fraserview, it was widely assumed that he was destined for a seat in Premier Gordon Campbell's cabinet.

Then attorney-general Wally Oppal, no less, had been pressured by Campbell to give up his Vancouver-Fraserview seat so that Heed could run in the southeast Vancouver riding.

Now the political career of the former dream candidate and cabinet heavyweight lies in tatters with no guarantee of a return to the cabinet even if he is exonerated by an RCMP probe into alleged election-law violations by members of his campaign staff.

Cabinet ministers forced to step aside because of a special investigation rarely come back into cabinet.