Thursday digest
- A children's television show featuring a Mickey Mouse-like character who urges viewers to work towards worldwide Islamic domination, starting with the destruction of Israel and the West, has been pulled off of Hamas' TV channel.Denis Coderre has yet to comment.
- The concept of parliamentary democracy has been undermined by an Environment Canada bureaucrat who decided to leak key details of draft climate-change legislation. This individual should have the book thrown at him. Civil servants are in place to advise fearlessly but more importantly, to implement loyally, not attempt to thwart the policy choices brought forward by the elected representatives of the Canadian public. However, the eco-imperialists and their friends in the public sector unions and the NDP seem not to have a problem with that very practice. Clearly, the values of political neutrality, professional conduct and ethical practices take a second place to ideological acceptability with this gang. I guess that means that if the NDP were ever in power (I know it's hard to imagine, but bear with me), they'd understand if market-oriented economists started leaking the details of proposed regulations concerning stocks, bonds, tax structures and the like to the Financial Post?
- Tony Blair announced his resignation this morning. There are others who are far more qualified to comment on his record than I am, but I'll just say that I think he's best Secretary of State I've ever seen.
posted by Road Hammer @ 6:54 AM
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I'm glad the Government had the employee taken away in cuffs. I loved this line from the PSAC exec:
"I think there's an argument to be made there that he was definitely looking after the public interest and the public good as opposed to toeing the Conservative party line."
What a crock of shit. When I was with the Government of Ontario we were very reluctant to implement whistle blower protection because of this very activity. Governments, like all organizations, are full of dissatisfied and unhappy employees who think that their employer owes them something. They lie awake at night fantasizing about how they'll take down their boss, or better yet, the whole organization.
In private companies, this insanity ends at day dreaming. In the public service, however, the press offers a mechanism to actually live out their dream. These people are, of course, cowards and hide behind the anonymity of a leak. If whistle blower protection is excessively generous to the employee, they are able to use the legislation to protect themselves.
This guy wasn't a whistle blower. He was a nut job with an axe to grind. I think they should jail him.
I think his sentence will be the fact he'll never work in this town again.
At least he'll have his anarchist collective there to support him - emotionally, if not materially.
On second thought, perhaps he'll get a gig guest lecturing at Carleton or answering phones in Olivia Chow's office.
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