Canadian Health Coalition tells Tony to resign or divest

[Berlynn]

Could it be that the first Con Minister is going

down,


down,



down?

[Toedancer]

Michael Fortier, the public works minister, has promised to abstain from any government business involving la Société Delphes, a software company in which he has preferred shares. And David Emerson, the trade minister, is the former CEO of Canfor Corporation and must not take part in talks or decisions affecting that company.

No disclosure has yet been made public for Labour Minister Jean-Pierre Blackburn and Finance Minister Jim Flaherty.
http://tinyurl.com/rjwkf

How do we know these people with business interests/shares don't abstain from any business that involves the government? I mean how?

The rule is even after they leave g'vt they have to wait so many years, before they can bid for gov't contracts, right? Whose to say they don't just hire someone to care for their business interests with gov't during and immediately after serving their terms?

Government Accountability Act? It's just another scam to placate the working stiff.

[skdadl]

What a great archive the coalition have built up there. Thanks very much for the link, Berlynn -- I feel a blogpost coming on.   :wink:

Quite apart from the immediate problem -- that some of these guys may not have fulfilled even the letter of the ethics guidelines -- is the obvious general allegiance of many (most?) of our political leaders to particular sectors of society and not to others. All that the ethics rules do is to prevent particular kinds of dealings between particular individuals for limited periods of time. They do nothing to change the fact that health ministers share a world with the people who profit from, eg, pharmaceuticals -- they share a world; they share assumptions, and sooner or later, they share prosperity, as individuals.

And you and I ... do not. In fact, we pay through the nose, at several levels.

Have to go back and study the crony hiring of Gord Haugh. Sheesh. What these people get away with, the sense of entitlement. Mind-boggling.