Former federal Conservative cabinet minister and Alberta Premier Jim Prentice is believed to be among the four people killed in a B.C. plane crash.
Prentice, 60, died in the crash on Thursday night.
The Cessna Citation took off from Kelowna with four people on board. It went down around 10:30 p.m.
The wreckage was found early Friday northeast of Winfield, about 18 kilometres north of Kelowna.
The Transportation Safety Board is deploying a team of investigators to the site.
Manitoba's Premier Brian Pallister spoke about Prentice in a press conference on Friday.
“Condolences will go out to all his friends and of course to Karen and the kids, and the grandchildren,” Pallister said. “I know those who have had the privilege of knowing him, know what a wonderful guy, what a professional, what a competent, capable and caring man he was.”
He spoke about working with Prentice on a number of different initiatives, and how he was also a good friend to him.
“He was a fine athlete, a fine business person and a real community guy. I’ll miss him.”
I had the honour of working with @JimPrentice and I know that his loss is felt across the country from coast-to coast-to coast today.
— Brian Pallister (@Brian_Pallister) October 14, 2016
He served as Alberta PC premier and former federal cabinet minister in the Conservative government of Stephen Harper. He left federal politics in 2010, to take a job as senior executive vice-president of CIBC and later ran for the Alberta PC leadership.
After losing the 2015 Alberta election to the NDP, Prentice joined Washington, D.C. think-tank the Wilson Center. He planned to write a book on energy and environmental issues, according to The Canadian Press.
