http://www.nuclearsafety.gc.ca/eng/news ... n_cnsc.pdf
http://www.nuclearsafety.gc.ca/eng/news ... sc_min.pdf
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/01/ ... iring.html
So now he fired her... which will cause her to sue...which will have us tax payers pay$$$ big time.
After reading both letters it's pretty clear to me that Gary Lunn MP is one dumb bulling SOB.
Linda Keen is about 50 points up the IQ scale on him.
Don't like the message, kill the messenger.
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Re: Don't like the message, kill the messenger.
Where politics and the law meet.
The public, at least in the eyes of the politicians, want someone held accountable when things don't go the way they collectively think they should - in this case the reactor shutdown. Joe public won't have any understanding of how "the system" works, in that many government agencies operate at arms length from the minister, they just hold the politicians to blame. The politicians must, in response to the public, hold someone up as a "fall guy," whether or not doing so is justifiable in law or logical.
The people accepting these senior government jobs know how it works going in, and know getting fired for political reasons is one of the risks. This woman will sue for wrongful dismissal, and her lawyers will quietly negotiate a severance package that may or may not ever get reported by the media.
It's worked that way probably since the first minister lost an election on the heels of some percieved scandal he had no control over. And, it won't change until the majority of Canadians take the time to learn how government actually works, and the relationships between crown agencies, the bureaucracy, and the elected politicians.
The public, at least in the eyes of the politicians, want someone held accountable when things don't go the way they collectively think they should - in this case the reactor shutdown. Joe public won't have any understanding of how "the system" works, in that many government agencies operate at arms length from the minister, they just hold the politicians to blame. The politicians must, in response to the public, hold someone up as a "fall guy," whether or not doing so is justifiable in law or logical.
The people accepting these senior government jobs know how it works going in, and know getting fired for political reasons is one of the risks. This woman will sue for wrongful dismissal, and her lawyers will quietly negotiate a severance package that may or may not ever get reported by the media.
It's worked that way probably since the first minister lost an election on the heels of some percieved scandal he had no control over. And, it won't change until the majority of Canadians take the time to learn how government actually works, and the relationships between crown agencies, the bureaucracy, and the elected politicians.
