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/
The federal government’s treatment of information about the Champlain Bridge is an interesting case study about government communications, bureaucratic (and political) arrogance, and the general contempt held in Ottawa (and Quebec City) for the public. In case you haven’t heard the story, it went down like this: Transport Canada minister Denis Lebel said that he [...]
http://canadians4accountability.org/blog/2011/07/19/handling-of-the-champlain-bridge-report-an-interesting-case-study-in-ineptitude/