The article below was first published in Ottawa’s Hill Times on December 5, 2011 It has become a sad truism that Canadians’ faith and trust in our federal government has been consistently declining. This is hardly news. Over the past decade, federal government studies from the likes of Public Works and Government Services in 2001 [...]
http://canadians4accountability.org/blog/2011/12/13/it%e2%80%99s-time-ottawa-fix-its-broken-trust-with-canadians/
I’ve been trying to find a topic to write about these past two weeks, but haven’t found something that really inspired me into outrage. I’ve just become too jaded. There have been stories of incompetence and abuse of authority – the rising aviation accident death rate due to Transport Canada’s refusal to act as a [...]
http://canadians4accountability.org/blog/2011/11/21/the-age-of-unaccountability/
Last week I had the honour to accompany Hugh Danford, a whistleblower of great courage, to the Office of the Public Sector Integrity Commissioner. Hugh is a former pilot with many, many years in the cockpit and who served as an aviation safety inspector at Transport Canada from 1996 to about 2004. Following a 1999 [...]
http://canadians4accountability.org/blog/2011/11/08/a-man-of-courage/