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caffeinatedTopic: Politics
Christiane Ouimet
the disgraced former public-sector integrity commissioner who ignored whistleblower complaints and tormented her staff was a no-show for Parliament's public accounts committee Tuesday.
She retired from the post shortly before auditor general Sheila Fraser issued a damning report on Ouimet's dismal performance.
Read more:
http://www.torontosun.com/news/canada/2011/02/08/17202206.html
Meanwhile, in another part of the forest, Canadian Parliament is in lock down mode, members breaths are bated, as we head for a showdown at big sky (cue tension inducing sherrif - bad guy music) ..
This is a government that got its way into town and promising the citizens openess, accountability and transparency cried the man in the white hat. "Hell-,..youv'e turned" he added gravelly.
"The federal government is trying to keep the cost of its law-and-order agenda a secret — and its refusal to make the figures public could set Parliament up for another high-stakes battle between the Conservatives and opposition MPs over access to information"
protected by cabinet confidence, [these] policy discussions [are] to be kept private [secret] and shields them from the Access to Information Act..
