books.google.ca - In 1953, Forests Minister Robert E. Sommers was one of the most powerful men in BC, able to influence the province's major industry, forestry, with a stroke of his pen. Five years later he plummeted from the heights when he was sent to jail for conspiracy and accepting bribes. The Sommers scandal was...http://books.google.ca/books/about/The_Sommers_Scandal.html?id=Lciy0gXBw1QC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareThe Sommers' Scandal